RACE REALISM SURFACES AMONG IQ-BASHERS
For reasons best known to itself (silly season? world economics making even less sense than usual to economists [with the neosocialist pound being exchanged for more than two dollars]?), the Economist (2 viii) reported a genetically based race difference - with the Swiss showing better `emotional memory' than Rwandans.
CHURCHILL WAS RACE REALIST
Britain's `Greatest Briton' - as voted by BBC TV viewers in 2002 (beating Isambard Brunel, Princess Diana, Charles Darwin, William Shakespeare and Sir Isaac Newton, and winning almost half of the million votes cast) - was worried about increasing "coloured" [mainly Black] immigration into Britain of the 1950's, it transpired as historians ploughed through Government documents released under the sixty-year rule. Sunday Telegraph, 5 viii:
Winston Churchill considered blocking all immigration to Britain because he feared a growing "coloured population" was posing a threat to Britain's social stability. Churchill, then 79, told Cabinet colleagues that he did not "want a parti-coloured UK". At a Cabinet meeting on February 3, 1954, the prime minister told colleagues: "Problems will arise if many coloured people settle here. Are we to saddle ourselves with colour problems in UK?" Churchill said immigrants were attracted to Britain by the welfare state and he said: "Public opinion in UK won't tolerate it once it gets beyond certain limits."
SEX REALISM
Female mice switch from female to totally male behaviour (including attempts at rear-entry copulation) if engineered to lack just one single gene (designated TRPC2), Harvard researchers reported (Nature, 5 viii) - though pious scientists reassured paparazzi that the story was sure to be more complicated -- with multiple interaction effects -- in homo sapiens.
RACE REALISM
Daily Telegraph, 3 viii:
A new fingerprinting technique that can identify the race and sex, and possibly the diet of suspects has been developed. Scientists have shown that using a gelatine-based gel and high-tech chemical analysis can provide significant clues to a person's identity even if police do not hold existing fingerprint records.
{Top social anthropologists were doubtless rushed to the BBC to deny the existence of races; and peecee-propagandized pseudo-biological `scientists' -- arise, professorial Steves Jones and Rose! -- would have soon followed to deny that any link between race and fingerprints could be genetic.}
MULTICULTURALISM BREAKING UP
While British and American troops tried vainly to enforce their political masters' illusion of multiculti Iraq and the domestically discredited Rev. Bliar got an international bishopric in piety to bring some semblance of peace (cf. Northern Ireland) to ex-Palestine, Tintin and Poirot's Belgium - which Britain created in 1830 and went to war with Germany to defend in 1914, and which housed Brussels, the very capital city of European multicultilunacy - was on the brink of splitting into its two main ethnic parts (Flemings and Walloons) (Sunday Telegraph, 5 viii).
PEECEE LUNACY COMPILED
As the paedohysterical 100-day search for the disappeared 3-year-old Madeleine McCann continued to disrupt the lives of all and sundry in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz (not least including `Maddi's' doctor parents, who found themselves under suspicion of murdering their child), Washington announced the sorry truth that British troops had been beaten in Basra (having spent more time on multicultural social work than on killing Muesli insurgents) and the British Government received po-faced a report claiming that Black underachievement needed remedying by creating Black role models (who were in short supply because..).
BLACKS COST BILLIONS
A solemn "independent" report (mysteriously called REACH, by 25 overwhelmingly sub-academic `experts') commissioned by Britain's terminally incompetent and peecee NuLabour Government on Black underachievement quite failed to mention IQ* and demanded multi-million-pound expenditure to over-promote Bleck men so they could be `role models' for Bleck druggie sexist rapist youf; but its Annex 3 did at least allow the estimate that the cost of Black stupidity ooops underachievement to the UK economy over the subsequent 50 years would be œ24 BILLION {doubtless a gross underestimate}.
* The risible report equally made no mention of the 807-page, 700K pounds, 1985 `Swann Report' to HMG, Education for All, with its Chapter 3 on `Achievement and Underachievement' and its Annex D by Cambridgemen Nick Mackintosh and Nick Mascie-Taylor, `The IQ Question' - reviewed critically by me ("The trouble in our schools is not racism but ageism") in Personality & Individual Differences 8 (1987).
** The new NuLabour manager, one-eyed three-dinners Grumpy Gordon Brown, had been so busy making excuses for NuLabour failures to prepare for floods and foot-and-mouth, annoying the Russians, enforcing `education' till age 18, sucking up to the European Union*** and tearing up the UK-US special relationship that he had not had time to notice this astonishingly witless and ill-informed product of Rev. Bliar's and hair-shirted overweight mother of four `Ms' Kelly's extravagance needed binning.
*** I proposed the snappy slogan `NO to EU' to Libertarian Sean Gabb (London) as my contribution to a multi-party campaign (to be headed by Peter Hitchens) for a referendum to reject the new European constitution - a campaign which would surely yield a National Liberal party as its culmination..
MUESLI DHIMMEST
India's 138M Mueslis, left behind as brighter co-religionists fled to Pakistan as India got its useless independence from Britain in 1947, turned out to be struggling. BBC, 9 viii: "Indian Muslims are..largely illiterate and poor. At just under 60%, the community's literacy rate is lower than the national average of 65%. Only half of Muslim women can read and write. As many as a quarter of Muslim children in the age-group 6-14 have either never attended school or dropped out. They are also poor - 31% of Muslims are below the country's poverty line, just a notch above the lowest castes and tribes who remain the poorest of the poor." {Naturally the Beeb blamed the phenomenon on India's Hindu-dominated Government - which admittedly did employ large numbers of Indians as civil servants and railwaymen in its `PermitRaj.'}
BOYCOTT BLASTED
In a major blow to British academics and their loopy-leftist trade union, the University and College Union, Jewish groups had little difficulty raising 300 American university presidents to condemn the proposed boycott of Israel's universities (see previously) (10 viii).
CATHOLICS STAND UP TO YAGS
Responding to the injunctions of the UK's deranged homosexualist NuLabour government and its `devoted Catholic' fatty Ms Kelly (see above), Catholic Care, a leading British Catholic adoption agency, announced that it would cease operations in the light of the recently imposed repressive laws that they must allow children to be adopted by homosexual partners. Catholic Care thus became the first victim among the religious social agencies to announce that it could no longer operate under the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) that proponents had claimed would put an end to "discrimination" in the UK. The agency, which had proudly operated for a century, announced that a vote of its trustees decided to end its services that had placed about 20 children a year into new families.
HARVARD PROF. RENEWS WARNING AGAINST PEECEE-MULTICULTURALISM
E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the 21st Century [PDF] was the latest from Harvard sociology professor Robert Putnam (see above, x 2006) whose five-year study, which made hash of the politically correct clich‚, "Our diversity is our strength" (VDare, 9 viii, Pat Buchanan). After 30,000 interviews, Putnam concluded and reported, against his own progressive convictions, that ethnic and racial diversity can be devastating to communities and destructive of community values. The greater the diversity the greater the distrust, said Putnam. In racially and ethnically mixed communities, not only do people not trust strangers, they do not even trust their own kind. They withdraw into themselves, they support community activity less, and they vote less. "People living in ethnically diverse settings appear to 'hunker down,' that is, to pull in like a turtle," wrote Putnam. They tend to "withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more but have less faith they can actually make a difference, and to huddle unhappily in front of the television."
BLACKS GET TOUGH ON SLAVERY!!
Two hundred years after Britain (which never tolerated slavery) banned the slave trade, and 140 years after America outlawed slavery, the west-African country of Mauritania (where possibly millions of slaves were inherited as property at birth) moved to institute jail sentences for slavers and `slavery apologists' - slavery had been nominally criminalized in 1981 but no penalty had been assigned or implemented (Daily Telegraph, 10 viii).
COGNIWALLAH SNUFFS IT
The press dutifully obituarized the simple-minded founder of `rational-emotive' and thus of `cognitive-behavioural' therapy (requiring devotees to `think positively' and to count up to ten if they felt anger coming on), bespectacled and surely Jewish Albert Ellis, 93, who had begun his life as a shy New York schoolboy and later accountant, disciplining himself to approach women on Central Park benches and thus to become a `sex therapist' before embarking on his life-time mission of leading psychologists away from Freud, Adler, Darwin and Galton-though he had at the last enough sense to make a third wife in 2005 of his 40-year-younger prot‚g‚e, Debbie Joffe (D. Torygraph, 10 viii).
PEECEE POLICE BLASTED
As West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service complained to the TV watchdog Ofcom that a Channel 4 program had been unkind to Mueslis, theyfound themselves under fire even from the liberal-left Observer (12 viii), where columnist Andrew Anthony wrote that it `beggared belief' to say that Channel 4's summary of undercover-filmed mosque rantings against "kaffirs" (non-Muslims) (who needed beheading) was some kind of incitement to racial hatred (with which charge the peecee-addled fuzz had not themselves proceeded).
FLAGRANT ANTI-WHITE-ENGLISH PREJUDICE REMARKED
The increasing arrangement by British authorities of jobs and training schemes that would accept only ethnic minority applicants was remarked by columnist Leo McKinstry (Sunday Express, 12 v iii) who wrote:
"The Left in Britain have seized on mass immigration and multiculturalism as a battering ram to destroy the society they despise. They once sought to change our country through economic revolution. That failed with the Winter of Discontent and the downfall of communism. But demographic change through migration has proved far more damaging."
{It was the advertising of training posts for Black psychologists only which had led me to a key decision some twenty years previously. From Brand for the Burning, Chapter X: "By the mid-1980's, the British Psychological Society was plainly becoming committed to the insane asylum of 'multiculturalism', 'affirmative action', anti-nuclear protest and, of course, opposition to 'sexist language.' In particular, the Society started running advertisements for positions that were open to Black applicants only.
I wrote in to the their house organ, the BPS Bulletin [later to become The Psychologist] to say that I would be interested to learn when the first advertisements would appear for 'Whites Only' psychology jobs in London's [notoriously racist] East End. The BPS would not publish my jocular missive, and all I received, together with my returned letter, was a scruffy compliment slip from one Ray Bull. That decided me: the BPS would not hear me, but the Eugenics Society would, so I resigned my twenty-year Membership of the BPS and signed up for eugenics."
RACE REALISM REVISITS OZ
Charles Murray, visiting Australia at the invitation of the Centre for Independent Studies, told the Australian Broadcasting Company's Radio PM audience that, while the environment was generally "very important" for intelligence, he could think of "no good environmental explanation" for the intellectual superiority of Jews (especially Ashkenazi Jews) (`Genes make Jews smarter: researcher,' 9 viii). Traditionally egalitarian in its official public philosophy, Australia had been the scene of heated confrontations when Art Jensen and Hans Eysenck had lectured on race and IQ in the 1970s.
PAKISTANI PAEDOPHILIA
The continuing* enthusiasm of South Asians (in this case the Srindopakeshis of the Indian subcontinent) for paedophilic practices surfaced as two `British' men of Pakistani origin were found guilty in the Crown Court of my Preston birthplace of `grooming' two under-16-year-old girls for sex by plying them with drink and drugs - the men pleaded guilty to achieving their objectives, having dished out Ecstasy tablets before having sex with the girls (who were `in care') on the back seat of a car and at an address in Blackburn, Lancashire (Times, 11 viii).
Zulfqar Hussain, 46, and Qaiser Naveed, 32, from east Lancashire, were each jailed for five years and eight months - rather less than the British press expected comedian Chris Langham to get for paedophilic downloading. According to campaigners against Srindopakeshi practices, parents of the hundreds of near-pubertal girls trafficked within the `Asian' community claim that criminal networks are able to prey on young girls because the authorities are reluctant to tackle the issue for fear of upsetting race relations in areas of the North West having large ethnic minority communities. Pakipaedophilia was usually blamed by race slumpers on Pakistani youth needing to wait through their teen years for their parents to make an arranged marriage for them with a virgin from their mother country - but this excuse clearly did not apply in the case of Hussain and Naveed.
Not to be outdone by Lancashire, Yorkshire soon came up with its own sex scandal as the city of Wakefield paid a œ1M out-of-court settlement to six social workers whom it had sacked after they complained of 12-year-olds being allowed to have sex in its `care homes' and of paedophiles being placed in homes with vulnerable youngsters.
* Adult x child sex was common in the past in India and Pakistan. In India of the 1920's, even seven year-old girls were deemed sexually ravenous - not least because of earlier graded exposure to incest in the family.
ROME'S END DUE TO WELL-INTENDED IMMIGRATION
Although, in 4th-century Rome, the elite of the Western Empire and their Goth immigrants had made happy common cause in Christianity after Constantine's victory at the Battle of Milvan Bridge (312 A.D.), conflict between Rome and the Goths began in the Eastern Roman Empire in 376 as Goths fleeing the Huns streamed across the Danube hoping to join their fellow Goths in the fertile service of Rome (Daily Telegraph (Review), 11 viii, Harry Mount, reviewing A. Barbero, The Day of the Barbarians).
In their first fifty miles trekking, the tall and blond, if shabby Goths were well received; but when the wave of immigrants reached Marcianople (today's Devnya, in Bulgaria), the good burghers refused to open their gates so the starving newcomers fought their way in, stripping Roman troops of their armour and weapons in the process. The inevitable result was the 378 bloodbath at the Battle of Adrianople, Thrace (today, western Turkey) where the Goths inflicted on the Romans their biggest defeat since Hannibal had crossed the Alps to win at Cannae 600 years earlier.
Subsequently, the Eastern Empire, unable to push the immigrants back into Germany, managed to push them further west, where fellow Goths in the Roman Army rose to support them, with the Goth career soldier Alaric sacking Rome in 410. The rest was history - including Rome being sacked by the Vandals in 455 - and by 476 the Western Roman Empire collapsed. {A story for our times if hordes of Mueslis fleeing the horrors of the Middle East are pushed on by Greece, Italy and France to Britain and America?....}
DROP THE PILOT, SAYS Bell AUTHOR
Scores on the famous IQ-type Scholastic Aptitude Test no longer added anything to the prediction of college grades, said the lively-minded Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve (The American, 13 vii). This might have been because the USA was already fully cognitively stratified, he ventured; or because rich parents provided coaching on the SAT for their kids as well as similarly boosting educational attainment.
Anyhow, Murray reckoned the SAT should be abandoned as pointless for all and dispiriting for those who did poorly on it. What Murray neglected, however, was that it was the rise of multiple choice testing in universities that had made intelligence less relevant than rote memory and hard work, thus opening the higher ranks of further education to girls and the otherwise mediocre. Sadly, the ingenious Murray, instead of keeping IQ in place to monitor its sorry irrelevance to modern university `achievement,' preferred to let the universities off the hook.
Certainly, his preparedness to join typical critics of IQ in slamming its importance was at odds with the increasing use of IQ testing by British firms to make up for the uselessness of university assessments (see previously -- SOCIALISM BOOSTS PSYCHOTESTING ) and by top English universities to discriminate between candidates for places in law and medicine (almost all of whom by 2007 were weighing in with equal achievement scores - 3 `A'-grade A-Levels) (Daily Telegraph, 16 viii, `Universities rely on aptitude tests to select candidates').
Even a weird `anti-racist' article in the Times (16 viii, by three-time Commonwealth table tennis champion, failed Labour parliamentary candidate and sports writer, ignoracist Balliol product Matthew Syed, who showed no sign of having read The g Factor or anything else from the London School) admitted that "the kind of intelligence revealed by IQ tests is crucial to one's prospects in the modern world" - suggesting IQ could only be ignored by dumbed-down postmodern universities teaching a diet of memorizable checklists using postgraduate student instructors.
MUESLI MAP
A handy guide to Europe's Muesli problems showed that Britain had got off pretty lightly compared to its eastern neighbours - especially compared to Germany where perennially lowish-IQ Mueslis (coming as slave labour from Turkey) had "rampant" unemployment and welfare-dependency yet had been allowed to congregate in the centre of Berlin in a hermetically sealed community (where little German was spoken despite thousands of massively expensive state-funded initiatives to `integrate' them) and remained in their unreconstructed conservative misogyny `more Turkish than the Turks.
Monday, August 06, 2007
A WORLD FULL OF SURPRISES FOR PEECEE
A research 'discovery' that only 45% of Black kids obtained five or more passes in Britain's bog-standard General Certificate of Secondary Education exams, compared to a 64% average for all other racial groups, amazed Warwick University's Centre for Educational Development Appraisal, which promptly attributed the result to 'racism', 'racist perceptions,' 'racist expectations' as if such ingenious excuses and lies of 1967 sociology could still pass muster in 2007 (Daily Telegraph, 27 vii). Needless to say, no IQ tests seemed to have been used in the research by the idiotic money-grubbing 'researchers.'
BRITISH 'EDUCATION' PLUMBS NEW DEPTHS
As it came to light that Britain's state schoolteachers - unfailingly condemnatory of IQ testing -- had been implementing (with local authority and Government encouragement) a U.S. approach which classified children as primarily visual, auditory or kinaesthetic and treated the kids according to these "learning styles," the scheme (called VAK) was said to have no evidence in its favour despite 30 years of research, to be theoretically incoherent and to have no neuroscientific basis - top pharmacologist Baroness Greenfield called it "nonsense." (Times Education Supplement, 27 vii; Sunday Telegraph, 29 vii).
From London, the Institute of Education's Professor Frank Coffield, a critic of 'learning style' theories, added: "As well as VAK, I came across [in my recent research] labelling such as 'activists' versus 'reflectors,' 'globalists versus 'analysts,' and 'left brainers' versus 'right brainers.' There is no scientific justification for any of these terms." Just as societies that lose their religion end up with superstitions like astrology and moralistic authoritarianism such as PeeCee, so societies that 'lose their intelligence' (as Quinn McNemar once put it - see Epilogue to The g Factor) end up with the Thurstone-derived nonsense of Harvard's Howie Gardner's 'multiple intelligences' and countless rivals such as VAK.
RUSSIA ENCOURAGES YOUTH PROCREATION
As part of a new Russian nationalism under the popular dictator Vladimir Putin, Russi's 'Nashi' youth movement was found organizing 10,000-strong fortnight-long love-ins for the country's overwhelmingly White youngsters with a strong stress on rapid progress to marriage and procreation (Daily Mail, 29 vii). Unlike Britain's spineless civil servants, academics and political class, Russia's intellectuals were free to deplore the possibility of the "extinction of Russians as a race" (St Petersburg Times, 24 vii).
PROFESSOR TO FIGHT FOR RACE REALISM
John Marshall Law School, Chicago, faced a $1M lawsuit from aggrieved professor John Gorby, to whom it had given a hard time after he had mused (to a Jewish student) whether poor Black achievement on law courses might be due to the Blacks' Baptist religion being oriented to emotion rather than argument (American Renaissance, 1 viii 2007).
ISRAELI MINISTER IN RACISM ROW
After he queried Israel's monthly admission of 600 Black Ethiopian Christians (but claiming original Jewish ancestry), Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit found himself charged with racism by leaders of the 100,000-strong 'Falasha' Ethiopian community that had been allowed to build up in Israel since 1980 (Daily Telegraph, 3 viii). "Who needs them?" he asked in an interview with The Jerusalem Post. {The Ethiopians had boosted Israel's numbers against their faster-breeding Arab neighbours; but many remained unemployed and on benefits.}
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A research 'discovery' that only 45% of Black kids obtained five or more passes in Britain's bog-standard General Certificate of Secondary Education exams, compared to a 64% average for all other racial groups, amazed Warwick University's Centre for Educational Development Appraisal, which promptly attributed the result to 'racism', 'racist perceptions,' 'racist expectations' as if such ingenious excuses and lies of 1967 sociology could still pass muster in 2007 (Daily Telegraph, 27 vii). Needless to say, no IQ tests seemed to have been used in the research by the idiotic money-grubbing 'researchers.'
BRITISH 'EDUCATION' PLUMBS NEW DEPTHS
As it came to light that Britain's state schoolteachers - unfailingly condemnatory of IQ testing -- had been implementing (with local authority and Government encouragement) a U.S. approach which classified children as primarily visual, auditory or kinaesthetic and treated the kids according to these "learning styles," the scheme (called VAK) was said to have no evidence in its favour despite 30 years of research, to be theoretically incoherent and to have no neuroscientific basis - top pharmacologist Baroness Greenfield called it "nonsense." (Times Education Supplement, 27 vii; Sunday Telegraph, 29 vii).
From London, the Institute of Education's Professor Frank Coffield, a critic of 'learning style' theories, added: "As well as VAK, I came across [in my recent research] labelling such as 'activists' versus 'reflectors,' 'globalists versus 'analysts,' and 'left brainers' versus 'right brainers.' There is no scientific justification for any of these terms." Just as societies that lose their religion end up with superstitions like astrology and moralistic authoritarianism such as PeeCee, so societies that 'lose their intelligence' (as Quinn McNemar once put it - see Epilogue to The g Factor) end up with the Thurstone-derived nonsense of Harvard's Howie Gardner's 'multiple intelligences' and countless rivals such as VAK.
RUSSIA ENCOURAGES YOUTH PROCREATION
As part of a new Russian nationalism under the popular dictator Vladimir Putin, Russi's 'Nashi' youth movement was found organizing 10,000-strong fortnight-long love-ins for the country's overwhelmingly White youngsters with a strong stress on rapid progress to marriage and procreation (Daily Mail, 29 vii). Unlike Britain's spineless civil servants, academics and political class, Russia's intellectuals were free to deplore the possibility of the "extinction of Russians as a race" (St Petersburg Times, 24 vii).
PROFESSOR TO FIGHT FOR RACE REALISM
John Marshall Law School, Chicago, faced a $1M lawsuit from aggrieved professor John Gorby, to whom it had given a hard time after he had mused (to a Jewish student) whether poor Black achievement on law courses might be due to the Blacks' Baptist religion being oriented to emotion rather than argument (American Renaissance, 1 viii 2007).
ISRAELI MINISTER IN RACISM ROW
After he queried Israel's monthly admission of 600 Black Ethiopian Christians (but claiming original Jewish ancestry), Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit found himself charged with racism by leaders of the 100,000-strong 'Falasha' Ethiopian community that had been allowed to build up in Israel since 1980 (Daily Telegraph, 3 viii). "Who needs them?" he asked in an interview with The Jerusalem Post. {The Ethiopians had boosted Israel's numbers against their faster-breeding Arab neighbours; but many remained unemployed and on benefits.}
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Friday, July 27, 2007
HIGH-IQ EARN MORE, SPEND MORE
New American data came to light confirming IQ at age18 to predict higher working-lifetime earnings (with each IQ point being worth an extra $500 annually) (MSN.money, 10 vii) but also finding higher-IQ people at 65 to be apparently no wealthier than others - perhaps because they had spent more, given more to charity or invested in better pensions.
TINTIN: HILARITY AHOY!
As Britain's crazed `Commission for Racial Equality' raised objections to the 76-year-old Tintin au Congo kids' comic book (about a ginger-quiffed cub-scout reporter and his dog Snowy) by Belgian author Georges Remi (aka Herge) being available in British bookshops and libraries, British sales of the `Black-denigrating' book (available worldwide in twenty languages) rocketed in one week by 4,000% as people added it to their collectors-item hoards of golliwogs and hair-straiteners.
Further fun lay ahead since the censorious CRE would presumably, once it was alerted, move to ban America's first home-grown novel, Huckleberry Finn, which had the N-word on every second page; and then to ban the plainly race-realist ramblings of Linnaeus, Hume, Kant,* Rousseau, Disraeli, Darwin and Stanford's Genoa-born top population geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza** (not to mention Francis Galton, Harvard's William McDougall and Edinburgh LUniversity's George Combe*** and Robert Knox****).
The Congo story placed Tintin among ignorant, chimp-like natives, who could not distinguish between a cold and a terminal fever and who ended up worshipping the young journalist and his pet dog as gods. Remi eventually admitted to being embarrassed by the book, which long remained unpublished in Britain, and the 2005 English version came with a health warning and a foreword explaining the work's `colonial context.' In fact, the real villain in Tintin's Congo was not an African but that well known Italian stereotype, mobster Al Capone.. A film based on 23 of the 24 Tintin albums was thought to be in the pipeline from star director Steven Spielberg (BBC, 10 v 2007).
By 2007, Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers was sold retitled as And Then There Were None.. Enid Blyton's image had taken a battering in recent years, to the extent that the black ragdoll Golliwog in the Noddy books had been replaced by a character called Goblin in reprints.
Other suggestions for authors `needing banning' were supplied by anti-censorship columniste India Knight (Times, 15 vii), who pointed out that "Herge's oeuvre included yellow Chinese people, bright red Indians, sinister Soviets, creepy Incas, fat, hysterical women who never stop singing, thick people, absent-minded professors, caricatured sailors."
* "The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling (Die Negers von Afrika haben von der Natur kein Gefuehl, welches ueber das Laeppische stiege). Mr. Hume challenges anyone to cite a single example in which a Negro has shown talents and asserts that among the hundreds of thousands of blacks who are transported elsewhere from their countries, although many of them have even been set free, still not a single one was ever found who presented anything great in art or science or any other praiseworthy quality, even though among the whites some continually rise aloft from the lowest rabble, and through superior gifts earn respect in the world. So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man, and it appears to be as great in regard to mental capacities as in color." Immanuel KANT, 1764, Beobachtungen ueber das Gefuehl des Schoenen und Erhabenen, 296-297; Observations on the Feeling of The Beautiful and Sublime, 110-111. (Kant's Gesammelte Schriften. Berlin : Reimer, 1910-1937.)
** Born 1922. Accused by some of racism for acknowledging statistical genetic separateness of many human groups -- http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1999/mayjun/articles/cavalli_sforza.html. Steve Sailer memorably summarized LLC-S's lifetime findings in VDare (24 v 2000): "Basically, all his number-crunching has produced a map that looks about like what you'd get if you gave an unreconstructed Strom Thurmond a paper napkin and a box of crayons and had him draw a racial map of the world." For LLC-S's autosomal DNA plot of genetic distances between Whites, Indians, East Asians, South Asians and Blacks, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalli-Sforza.
*** "When we regard the different quarters of the globe, we are struck with the extreme dissimilarity in the attainments of the varieties of men who inhabit them . . . The history of Africa, so far as Africa can be said to have a history . . . exhibit[s] one unbroken scene of moral and intellectual desolation . . . `The negro, easily excitable, is in the highest degree susceptible to all the passions . . . To the negro, remove only pain and hunger, and it is naturally a state of enjoyment. As soon as his toils are suspended for a moment, he sings, he seizes a fiddle, he dances.'" George COMBE [Edinburgh lawyer and phrenologist], 1825, A System of Phrenology.
**** "Race is everything. Literature, science, art -- in a word, civilisation, depends on it." Robert KNOX (top Edinburgh University anatomist, paid Burke and Hare for corpses for cutting-edge medical research, forced out after rioting on Newington Road), 1850, The Races of Men. London : Renshaw.
CRAZED COMMISSARIAT COMPLAINS OVER U.K. CABINET
Confirming that the lunatics were running the asylum at Britain's White-hating Commission for Racial Equality, bossman Trevor Phillips phoned No. 10, Downing Street and expressed himself as "hopping mad" at there being only one Black (Baroness Scotland) in Labour P.M. Gordon Brown's new Cabinet, and at the two serving Muslims not receiving ministerial salaries (Daily Telegraph, 16 vii; Guardian, 16 vii). Phillips had last come to public attention in June when his attempted joke that the late and much revered Queen Mother might have had to wear a colostomy bag fell flat before an audience at Imperial College, London, leading even a Black correspondent to write to the Sun newspaper (18 vi 2007) that "clearly his brain's gone."
HORMONES YIELD SEX DIFFERENCE IN MATH
The well-known measure of `ring finger length - index finger length', which is linked to masculinity, butch lesbianism and aggression (except in the minds of bisexual Grauniadistas like my one-time student Becky Gardiner), was found by Mark Brosnan (Bath University) to link to relative superiority in mathematical as opposed to verbal ability on the SAT, another well-known psychological sex difference.
Amazon editorial review of a related 2005 book ("Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior and Health") which had gone unremarked by the West's sickly peecee press:
"Could the length of your fingers indicate a predisposition to breast cancer? Or musical genius? Or homosexuality? In Digit Ratio, John T. Manning posits that relative lengths of the second and fourth digits in humans (2D:4D ratio) does provide such a window into hormone- and sex-related traits.
It has been known for more than a century that men and women tend to differ in the relative lengths of their index (2D) and ring (4D) fingers, which upon casual observation seem fairly symmetrical. Men on average have fourth digits longer than their second digits, while women typically have the opposite. Digit ratios are unique in that they are fixed before birth, while other sexually dimorphic variables are fixed after puberty, and the same genes that control for finger length also control the development of the sex organs.
The 2D:4D ratio is the only prenatal sexually dimorphic trait that measurably explains conditions linking testosterone, estrogen, and human development; the study of the ratio broadens our view of human ability, talent, behavior, disposition, health, and fertility. In this book, Manning presents evidence for how 2D:4D correlates with traits ranging from sperm counts, family size, musical genius, and sporting prowess, to autism, depression, homosexuality, heart attacks, and breast cancer, traits that are all linked with early exposure to sex hormones"
About the Author; John T. Manning is a reader in biological sciences at the University of Liverpool, U.K., and a founding member of the Rutgers University Jamaican Fluctuating Asymmetry Project.
POSTMODERNISM HAS BUMPY LANDING
After years of relativism, idealism and pie-in-the-sky anti-imperialism, Jacques Derrida's career ended with him deciding to defend a colleague accused of real-time sexual harassment - and threatening his beloved university, California Irvine, that he would not leave them his copious texts or anything else unless it obliged him. The final result, after his death, was the university suing Derrida's wife, children and bastard children for his effects (Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 vii). Hardly a `good death' for the away-with-the-fairies neoMarxist w*nker!
DAFT DAVE'S DOOM
Druggy, tieless, grammar school-bashing and trendily `green' National Health Service-worshipper `Dave' Cameron, who could not bring himself to say the words `Black,' `Muslim' or `IQ' took his traitorous Not-The-Conservative-Party to third place in both of two parliamentary by-elections - even though he had apparently gone so far as to bribe a handsome Asian businessman to defect from Labour and become the `Conservative' candidate within a few days of the local hero of `diverse' Ealing donating 5K pounds to Labour and being snapped together with a beaming Tony Blair. PR-person Dave, who had entirely failed to offer FREEDOM FROM NEOSOCIALISM, made the by-election exercise a spectacular personal defeat by listing his candidates on the ballot papers as belonging to "David Cameron's Conservative Party."
LOW-IQ NANNIES DISCLOSE POWER OF GENES
"Interesting that an entire generation of white wealthy kids, here [in the USA] and in Europe, have now been raised by mostly non-white or low income white nannies/daycare providers and they still have high IQs." - American Renaissance, 19 vii.
LABOUR BATTLE WITH REALITY TO CONTINUE
After a century of the grammar schools achieving upward intergenerational mobility for lower-class kids capable of it, and a half-century of Labour demolishing the grammar schools and declining to provide specialist technical education for lower-IQ kids, the Labour minister in charge of the party's manifesto, Ed Miliband (the son of a Marxist) announced what could only be, in context, a fresh assault in Britain on the very idea of a university (Guardian, 23 vii): "[Only] eighteen per cent of people go to university from the poorest backgrounds. That figure has got to rise. It has got to be one of the central objectives of a Labour government."
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New American data came to light confirming IQ at age18 to predict higher working-lifetime earnings (with each IQ point being worth an extra $500 annually) (MSN.money, 10 vii) but also finding higher-IQ people at 65 to be apparently no wealthier than others - perhaps because they had spent more, given more to charity or invested in better pensions.
TINTIN: HILARITY AHOY!
As Britain's crazed `Commission for Racial Equality' raised objections to the 76-year-old Tintin au Congo kids' comic book (about a ginger-quiffed cub-scout reporter and his dog Snowy) by Belgian author Georges Remi (aka Herge) being available in British bookshops and libraries, British sales of the `Black-denigrating' book (available worldwide in twenty languages) rocketed in one week by 4,000% as people added it to their collectors-item hoards of golliwogs and hair-straiteners.
Further fun lay ahead since the censorious CRE would presumably, once it was alerted, move to ban America's first home-grown novel, Huckleberry Finn, which had the N-word on every second page; and then to ban the plainly race-realist ramblings of Linnaeus, Hume, Kant,* Rousseau, Disraeli, Darwin and Stanford's Genoa-born top population geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza** (not to mention Francis Galton, Harvard's William McDougall and Edinburgh LUniversity's George Combe*** and Robert Knox****).
The Congo story placed Tintin among ignorant, chimp-like natives, who could not distinguish between a cold and a terminal fever and who ended up worshipping the young journalist and his pet dog as gods. Remi eventually admitted to being embarrassed by the book, which long remained unpublished in Britain, and the 2005 English version came with a health warning and a foreword explaining the work's `colonial context.' In fact, the real villain in Tintin's Congo was not an African but that well known Italian stereotype, mobster Al Capone.. A film based on 23 of the 24 Tintin albums was thought to be in the pipeline from star director Steven Spielberg (BBC, 10 v 2007).
By 2007, Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers was sold retitled as And Then There Were None.. Enid Blyton's image had taken a battering in recent years, to the extent that the black ragdoll Golliwog in the Noddy books had been replaced by a character called Goblin in reprints.
Other suggestions for authors `needing banning' were supplied by anti-censorship columniste India Knight (Times, 15 vii), who pointed out that "Herge's oeuvre included yellow Chinese people, bright red Indians, sinister Soviets, creepy Incas, fat, hysterical women who never stop singing, thick people, absent-minded professors, caricatured sailors."
* "The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling (Die Negers von Afrika haben von der Natur kein Gefuehl, welches ueber das Laeppische stiege). Mr. Hume challenges anyone to cite a single example in which a Negro has shown talents and asserts that among the hundreds of thousands of blacks who are transported elsewhere from their countries, although many of them have even been set free, still not a single one was ever found who presented anything great in art or science or any other praiseworthy quality, even though among the whites some continually rise aloft from the lowest rabble, and through superior gifts earn respect in the world. So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man, and it appears to be as great in regard to mental capacities as in color." Immanuel KANT, 1764, Beobachtungen ueber das Gefuehl des Schoenen und Erhabenen, 296-297; Observations on the Feeling of The Beautiful and Sublime, 110-111. (Kant's Gesammelte Schriften. Berlin : Reimer, 1910-1937.)
** Born 1922. Accused by some of racism for acknowledging statistical genetic separateness of many human groups -- http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1999/mayjun/articles/cavalli_sforza.html. Steve Sailer memorably summarized LLC-S's lifetime findings in VDare (24 v 2000): "Basically, all his number-crunching has produced a map that looks about like what you'd get if you gave an unreconstructed Strom Thurmond a paper napkin and a box of crayons and had him draw a racial map of the world." For LLC-S's autosomal DNA plot of genetic distances between Whites, Indians, East Asians, South Asians and Blacks, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalli-Sforza.
*** "When we regard the different quarters of the globe, we are struck with the extreme dissimilarity in the attainments of the varieties of men who inhabit them . . . The history of Africa, so far as Africa can be said to have a history . . . exhibit[s] one unbroken scene of moral and intellectual desolation . . . `The negro, easily excitable, is in the highest degree susceptible to all the passions . . . To the negro, remove only pain and hunger, and it is naturally a state of enjoyment. As soon as his toils are suspended for a moment, he sings, he seizes a fiddle, he dances.'" George COMBE [Edinburgh lawyer and phrenologist], 1825, A System of Phrenology.
**** "Race is everything. Literature, science, art -- in a word, civilisation, depends on it." Robert KNOX (top Edinburgh University anatomist, paid Burke and Hare for corpses for cutting-edge medical research, forced out after rioting on Newington Road), 1850, The Races of Men. London : Renshaw.
CRAZED COMMISSARIAT COMPLAINS OVER U.K. CABINET
Confirming that the lunatics were running the asylum at Britain's White-hating Commission for Racial Equality, bossman Trevor Phillips phoned No. 10, Downing Street and expressed himself as "hopping mad" at there being only one Black (Baroness Scotland) in Labour P.M. Gordon Brown's new Cabinet, and at the two serving Muslims not receiving ministerial salaries (Daily Telegraph, 16 vii; Guardian, 16 vii). Phillips had last come to public attention in June when his attempted joke that the late and much revered Queen Mother might have had to wear a colostomy bag fell flat before an audience at Imperial College, London, leading even a Black correspondent to write to the Sun newspaper (18 vi 2007) that "clearly his brain's gone."
HORMONES YIELD SEX DIFFERENCE IN MATH
The well-known measure of `ring finger length - index finger length', which is linked to masculinity, butch lesbianism and aggression (except in the minds of bisexual Grauniadistas like my one-time student Becky Gardiner), was found by Mark Brosnan (Bath University) to link to relative superiority in mathematical as opposed to verbal ability on the SAT, another well-known psychological sex difference.
Amazon editorial review of a related 2005 book ("Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior and Health") which had gone unremarked by the West's sickly peecee press:
"Could the length of your fingers indicate a predisposition to breast cancer? Or musical genius? Or homosexuality? In Digit Ratio, John T. Manning posits that relative lengths of the second and fourth digits in humans (2D:4D ratio) does provide such a window into hormone- and sex-related traits.
It has been known for more than a century that men and women tend to differ in the relative lengths of their index (2D) and ring (4D) fingers, which upon casual observation seem fairly symmetrical. Men on average have fourth digits longer than their second digits, while women typically have the opposite. Digit ratios are unique in that they are fixed before birth, while other sexually dimorphic variables are fixed after puberty, and the same genes that control for finger length also control the development of the sex organs.
The 2D:4D ratio is the only prenatal sexually dimorphic trait that measurably explains conditions linking testosterone, estrogen, and human development; the study of the ratio broadens our view of human ability, talent, behavior, disposition, health, and fertility. In this book, Manning presents evidence for how 2D:4D correlates with traits ranging from sperm counts, family size, musical genius, and sporting prowess, to autism, depression, homosexuality, heart attacks, and breast cancer, traits that are all linked with early exposure to sex hormones"
About the Author; John T. Manning is a reader in biological sciences at the University of Liverpool, U.K., and a founding member of the Rutgers University Jamaican Fluctuating Asymmetry Project.
POSTMODERNISM HAS BUMPY LANDING
After years of relativism, idealism and pie-in-the-sky anti-imperialism, Jacques Derrida's career ended with him deciding to defend a colleague accused of real-time sexual harassment - and threatening his beloved university, California Irvine, that he would not leave them his copious texts or anything else unless it obliged him. The final result, after his death, was the university suing Derrida's wife, children and bastard children for his effects (Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 vii). Hardly a `good death' for the away-with-the-fairies neoMarxist w*nker!
DAFT DAVE'S DOOM
Druggy, tieless, grammar school-bashing and trendily `green' National Health Service-worshipper `Dave' Cameron, who could not bring himself to say the words `Black,' `Muslim' or `IQ' took his traitorous Not-The-Conservative-Party to third place in both of two parliamentary by-elections - even though he had apparently gone so far as to bribe a handsome Asian businessman to defect from Labour and become the `Conservative' candidate within a few days of the local hero of `diverse' Ealing donating 5K pounds to Labour and being snapped together with a beaming Tony Blair. PR-person Dave, who had entirely failed to offer FREEDOM FROM NEOSOCIALISM, made the by-election exercise a spectacular personal defeat by listing his candidates on the ballot papers as belonging to "David Cameron's Conservative Party."
LOW-IQ NANNIES DISCLOSE POWER OF GENES
"Interesting that an entire generation of white wealthy kids, here [in the USA] and in Europe, have now been raised by mostly non-white or low income white nannies/daycare providers and they still have high IQs." - American Renaissance, 19 vii.
LABOUR BATTLE WITH REALITY TO CONTINUE
After a century of the grammar schools achieving upward intergenerational mobility for lower-class kids capable of it, and a half-century of Labour demolishing the grammar schools and declining to provide specialist technical education for lower-IQ kids, the Labour minister in charge of the party's manifesto, Ed Miliband (the son of a Marxist) announced what could only be, in context, a fresh assault in Britain on the very idea of a university (Guardian, 23 vii): "[Only] eighteen per cent of people go to university from the poorest backgrounds. That figure has got to rise. It has got to be one of the central objectives of a Labour government."
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
BRAIN SIZE CORRELATED WITH INTELLIGENCE - NEW REVIEW
Bringing together 20 studies involving 1,530 subjects (Pakistan Tribune, 23 vi 2007), Dr. Michael A. McDaniel of the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, U.S.A., concluded that the long-envisaged moderate correlation between brain volume and intelligence held firm in human adults - especially in women {for a sizeable part of the male brain is taken up by the larger male ego ooops the male's greater spatial ability}.
{This finding had been reported in Science Daily in 2005 (18 vi) but never appeared in mainstream Western media. That it had to emerge as `news' via Pakistan two years later was a notable tribute to PeeCee's tyrannical domination of the West's media - still evidently following the line of Marxite Stephen Jay Gould that there was no such brain-IQ relation.}
A thoughtful consideration of Williams Syndrome -- which is genetic, affects 1 child in 7,500, lowers brain volume by 15% and IQ to around 65, but is accompanied by merry gregariousness -- was provided at Blue Ridge Now, 8 vii.
PRIME MINISTER BROWN ACCUSED OF SIDING WITH BNP
Following Gordon Brown's speech to the GMB union on 5 June in which he indicated that he wanted a claimed 200,000 new jobs to go to what he called "British workers," the London-based (Marylebone Road) civil liberties group Liberty and Law reported him to the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE). It asked the CRE to make a statement explaining that any job discrimination based on nationality is against the Race Relations Act and to investigate the policy of the Government to ensure that its employment policy was not designed to privilege British job seekers over any other people entitled to seek work in Britain. It also asked the CRE to obtain a statement from Mr Brown clearly indicating that nothing he has said was intended to suggest that British workers were to be given any priority whatsoever in obtaining employment over foreigners legitimately seeking the same work.
YES TO FAMILIES, BUT NO TO FREEDOM
Daft Dave's `Conservatives' got round to proposing the tax breaks for married couples long urged in McDougall NewsLetters and this diary/blog (Guardian, 10 vii). But the inevitable wailing of homosexual `partners,'* heteros living in sin and single-parent `mothers' had yet to be faced down - a task for which DD was lightly akiltered; and the Tory proposals were accompanied not by moves toward freedom (legalizing all speech, drugs and sex over age 12) but by a proposed moralistic clampdown, including hiking up taxation of alcohol and banning teenagers from gambling.
* Sure enough, within a day the `Conservatives' announced that their 20 pounds a-week handout would go equally to `civil partners.'
Apparently the billions of pounds required to finance the wheeze would come from compelling single parent mothers to seek and take work and thus come off benefits. Even if their child was as young as three, they would be required to demonstrate that, if not working, they were spending at least ten hours per week searching for work. {While such draconianism was refreshing, it would surely have been wiser to focus on getting the brighter teenage girls to marry and breed by promising free university places and nursery services if they could provide evidence of a baby born to them while in wedlock to a live-in husband.}
Prime Minister Gordon Brown promptly followed up the Conservatives' moralism by ruling out a super-casino and hiking the leaving age in Britain's state schools (i.e. propaganda factories for PeeCee) to 18.
SOCIALISM BOOSTS PSYCHOTESTING
After a decade of Britain's Labour Government expanding university intakes, it transpired that there were no less than 29 graduate applicants for every graduate-level job (in banking, insurance, finance, management etc.) (Times, 10 vii). Faced with the impossibility of choosing between so many 'qualified' candidates, 50% of employers had adopted use of psychometric testing at the application stage - and not just at the interview stage as formerly. Apparently, by this time, "92% of leading graduate employers [in Britain] thought psychometric tests were "useful" or "very useful" tools in selecting candidates."
JOYS OF DIVERSITY
As lame-duck P.M. Grumpy Gordon frenetically recycled ancient policies (more maths and discipline in schools etc.) and added new authoritarian wheezes (keeping kids in Britain''schools' till 18), it transpired that Labour had allowed the Metropolitan Police to be comprehensively infiltrated by terror-backing Mueslis - promoted to dangerous levels thanks to the Labour Government and the Macpherson Report.
{How much longer would it be before Britain concluded that New Labour was just as much of a disaster and danger as Old Labour had been recognized to be by 1979?}
LORD BLACK OF CROSSHARBOUR DEFENDED
As right-wing publishing tycoon, distinguished biographer and multi-millionaire Conrad Black was found guilty following a three-month trial (ending with the Chicago jury needing to deliberate for twelve days) of trousering a tiny percentage of the takings of the firm, Hollinger, which he had made the world's third-largest publisher, at least defence of him against gloating egalitarians and lefties was provided by two beautiful women (his wife and daughter), by Canada's CB-bankrolled National Post (14 vii) and by gifted columnist Mark Steyn in Macleans (13 vii).
The Montreal Gazette noted sympathetically that, charge with embezzling $92M, Lord Black had finally been found guilty on charges related to $3M (14 vii). A juror on the case told the Amherst Daily that several jurors had wanted CB cleared on not just nine but all thirteen of the charges he faced; and that jurors only learned, to their horror, after announcing their verdicts, of the savage punishments allowed by U.S. law for fraud cases - longer than would be served in the U.K. for murder.
In Britain, Scotland's Sunday Herald showed some sympathy for Lord Black (15 vii). Amidst all the complexities of this case of statist triumphalism against the world of business, it was notable that no testimony was given by anyone who had actually suffered from CB's activities - for the shareholders had benefited, and could have sold up at any time if they didn't like CB's deals; and that he would never have been convicted if tried in England - just as he had long practised without falling foul of Canadian law.
I wrote to the Post as follows: "Congratulations on your sympathetic defence of Lord Black! The conviction of such a major right-wing intellectual is surely the most outrageous piece of anti-elitism and state triumphalism since America's jailing ten years ago of Nobelist paedophile Carlton Gajdusek for his own equally minor and victimless derelictions."}
Amidst the near-overwhelming clamour of American, Australian and British newspapers against him, the Observer's columnist Peter Preston kindly remarked (15 vii):
"Conrad Black was a pretty decent newspaper proprietor in the eyes of most who worked for him. He didn't interfere overmuch. He paid necessary bills, rescued two Telegraphs from looming bankruptcy, and restored them to health. He gave lavish parties and welcomed the great and good to his boards. He wrote long political biographies and started at least one new paper (the National Post) that Canada needed. He was much more than 'Black, the fraudster' (as the Telegraph's main headline had it).
The issues that surround him, and will doubtless follow him to prison before long, aren't those of basic crookery - or, as a matter of fact, basic greed. More likely, they are the product of a totally split personality. Conrad One was a Bay Street Boy on the make, a young climber who found a business soulmate in David Radler and did a number of grubby or cynical - but lucrative - deals the pair used to giggle over. That was Callous Conrad, a crook fallen in with another crook. But Conrad Two was a political thinker, writer, talent spotter and impressario in a quite different league, almost from a different planet. Does Conrad One talk to Conrad Two? Obviously not; otherwise he might have taken a plea bargain. But let's, at least, keep the Mark Two model in a reasonable state, without too much jeering or gloating."
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Bringing together 20 studies involving 1,530 subjects (Pakistan Tribune, 23 vi 2007), Dr. Michael A. McDaniel of the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, U.S.A., concluded that the long-envisaged moderate correlation between brain volume and intelligence held firm in human adults - especially in women {for a sizeable part of the male brain is taken up by the larger male ego ooops the male's greater spatial ability}.
{This finding had been reported in Science Daily in 2005 (18 vi) but never appeared in mainstream Western media. That it had to emerge as `news' via Pakistan two years later was a notable tribute to PeeCee's tyrannical domination of the West's media - still evidently following the line of Marxite Stephen Jay Gould that there was no such brain-IQ relation.}
A thoughtful consideration of Williams Syndrome -- which is genetic, affects 1 child in 7,500, lowers brain volume by 15% and IQ to around 65, but is accompanied by merry gregariousness -- was provided at Blue Ridge Now, 8 vii.
PRIME MINISTER BROWN ACCUSED OF SIDING WITH BNP
Following Gordon Brown's speech to the GMB union on 5 June in which he indicated that he wanted a claimed 200,000 new jobs to go to what he called "British workers," the London-based (Marylebone Road) civil liberties group Liberty and Law reported him to the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE). It asked the CRE to make a statement explaining that any job discrimination based on nationality is against the Race Relations Act and to investigate the policy of the Government to ensure that its employment policy was not designed to privilege British job seekers over any other people entitled to seek work in Britain. It also asked the CRE to obtain a statement from Mr Brown clearly indicating that nothing he has said was intended to suggest that British workers were to be given any priority whatsoever in obtaining employment over foreigners legitimately seeking the same work.
YES TO FAMILIES, BUT NO TO FREEDOM
Daft Dave's `Conservatives' got round to proposing the tax breaks for married couples long urged in McDougall NewsLetters and this diary/blog (Guardian, 10 vii). But the inevitable wailing of homosexual `partners,'* heteros living in sin and single-parent `mothers' had yet to be faced down - a task for which DD was lightly akiltered; and the Tory proposals were accompanied not by moves toward freedom (legalizing all speech, drugs and sex over age 12) but by a proposed moralistic clampdown, including hiking up taxation of alcohol and banning teenagers from gambling.
* Sure enough, within a day the `Conservatives' announced that their 20 pounds a-week handout would go equally to `civil partners.'
Apparently the billions of pounds required to finance the wheeze would come from compelling single parent mothers to seek and take work and thus come off benefits. Even if their child was as young as three, they would be required to demonstrate that, if not working, they were spending at least ten hours per week searching for work. {While such draconianism was refreshing, it would surely have been wiser to focus on getting the brighter teenage girls to marry and breed by promising free university places and nursery services if they could provide evidence of a baby born to them while in wedlock to a live-in husband.}
Prime Minister Gordon Brown promptly followed up the Conservatives' moralism by ruling out a super-casino and hiking the leaving age in Britain's state schools (i.e. propaganda factories for PeeCee) to 18.
SOCIALISM BOOSTS PSYCHOTESTING
After a decade of Britain's Labour Government expanding university intakes, it transpired that there were no less than 29 graduate applicants for every graduate-level job (in banking, insurance, finance, management etc.) (Times, 10 vii). Faced with the impossibility of choosing between so many 'qualified' candidates, 50% of employers had adopted use of psychometric testing at the application stage - and not just at the interview stage as formerly. Apparently, by this time, "92% of leading graduate employers [in Britain] thought psychometric tests were "useful" or "very useful" tools in selecting candidates."
JOYS OF DIVERSITY
As lame-duck P.M. Grumpy Gordon frenetically recycled ancient policies (more maths and discipline in schools etc.) and added new authoritarian wheezes (keeping kids in Britain''schools' till 18), it transpired that Labour had allowed the Metropolitan Police to be comprehensively infiltrated by terror-backing Mueslis - promoted to dangerous levels thanks to the Labour Government and the Macpherson Report.
{How much longer would it be before Britain concluded that New Labour was just as much of a disaster and danger as Old Labour had been recognized to be by 1979?}
LORD BLACK OF CROSSHARBOUR DEFENDED
As right-wing publishing tycoon, distinguished biographer and multi-millionaire Conrad Black was found guilty following a three-month trial (ending with the Chicago jury needing to deliberate for twelve days) of trousering a tiny percentage of the takings of the firm, Hollinger, which he had made the world's third-largest publisher, at least defence of him against gloating egalitarians and lefties was provided by two beautiful women (his wife and daughter), by Canada's CB-bankrolled National Post (14 vii) and by gifted columnist Mark Steyn in Macleans (13 vii).
The Montreal Gazette noted sympathetically that, charge with embezzling $92M, Lord Black had finally been found guilty on charges related to $3M (14 vii). A juror on the case told the Amherst Daily that several jurors had wanted CB cleared on not just nine but all thirteen of the charges he faced; and that jurors only learned, to their horror, after announcing their verdicts, of the savage punishments allowed by U.S. law for fraud cases - longer than would be served in the U.K. for murder.
In Britain, Scotland's Sunday Herald showed some sympathy for Lord Black (15 vii). Amidst all the complexities of this case of statist triumphalism against the world of business, it was notable that no testimony was given by anyone who had actually suffered from CB's activities - for the shareholders had benefited, and could have sold up at any time if they didn't like CB's deals; and that he would never have been convicted if tried in England - just as he had long practised without falling foul of Canadian law.
I wrote to the Post as follows: "Congratulations on your sympathetic defence of Lord Black! The conviction of such a major right-wing intellectual is surely the most outrageous piece of anti-elitism and state triumphalism since America's jailing ten years ago of Nobelist paedophile Carlton Gajdusek for his own equally minor and victimless derelictions."}
Amidst the near-overwhelming clamour of American, Australian and British newspapers against him, the Observer's columnist Peter Preston kindly remarked (15 vii):
"Conrad Black was a pretty decent newspaper proprietor in the eyes of most who worked for him. He didn't interfere overmuch. He paid necessary bills, rescued two Telegraphs from looming bankruptcy, and restored them to health. He gave lavish parties and welcomed the great and good to his boards. He wrote long political biographies and started at least one new paper (the National Post) that Canada needed. He was much more than 'Black, the fraudster' (as the Telegraph's main headline had it).
The issues that surround him, and will doubtless follow him to prison before long, aren't those of basic crookery - or, as a matter of fact, basic greed. More likely, they are the product of a totally split personality. Conrad One was a Bay Street Boy on the make, a young climber who found a business soulmate in David Radler and did a number of grubby or cynical - but lucrative - deals the pair used to giggle over. That was Callous Conrad, a crook fallen in with another crook. But Conrad Two was a political thinker, writer, talent spotter and impressario in a quite different league, almost from a different planet. Does Conrad One talk to Conrad Two? Obviously not; otherwise he might have taken a plea bargain. But let's, at least, keep the Mark Two model in a reasonable state, without too much jeering or gloating."
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Sunday, July 08, 2007
IQ DEFENDED (A BIT) BY OXFORD PROF.
Britain’s Funday Times (which once played a major part in trashing the reputation of Sir Cyril Burt) saw fit to hand the reviewing of a new ‘popular’ (and certainly massively publicized) anti-IQ book from Wiley DePublisher* (by a Santa Barbara biker, safe streets advocate, human rights attorney and freelance journalist, Stephen Murdoch, who had plainly never read The g Factor [which Wiley de-published in 1996]) to an Oxford professor of Eng. Lit., John Carey (8 vii).
In fact, Prof. Carey did a passable job of defending IQ against the “ruthless animosity”** of Murdoch’s book, settling for saying IQ was no more to blame for selective education in Britain and America than Zyklon B had been responsible for the Holocaust – such was academic moderation by 2007….; but Carey splendidly revealed his own incompetence to be even such a ‘moderate’ critic of the London School by suggesting that Blacks would do better on IQ if tests were re-written in Black English*** – when it had been known since Arthur Jensen’s work around 1970’s that Blacks actually do even worse on mental tests that are altogether non-verbal.
* The DePublisher had celebrated its 2007 bicentenary by taking over the elite Blackwell publishing house and bookstore chain (Oxford, London, Edinburgh), indicating what the future held for the head-in-the-sand ‘liberal’-left ‘academic’ sh*ts of British luniversities. Having failed to defend The g Factor in 1996, academics were to find PeeCee literally enforced on them by the censorious DePublisher.
** Interviewed by the Santa Barbara Independent (8 vii), Murdoch summarized his thesis about power-hungry psychometrician-psychologists (apparently without acknowledgment to Leon Kamin, Stephen Jay Gould or Dave Spart): “In the early 20th century, the fledgling field of psychology used IQ tests to gain access and power in America through persuading people it could measure an innate ability called intelligence.” Apparently, said the Independent, Murdoch’s book, IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea, detailed how the tests had been used in surprising ways: to turn immigrants back on Ellis Island, to decide whether to sexually sterilize unwed mothers, and even, in the case of Nazi Germany, to determine if handicapped people should be executed. {In fact the last, humanitarian use – exempting dullards from mens rea – remained the major official use of IQ test through the 20th century.
*** An IQ-type quiz using Black idiom was actually developed in the 1970's -- e.g. asking the testee to supply the meaning of 'going down on.' The final test turned out to show no correlation in Blacks with measures of either the g factor or educational attainment.
Britain’s Funday Times (which once played a major part in trashing the reputation of Sir Cyril Burt) saw fit to hand the reviewing of a new ‘popular’ (and certainly massively publicized) anti-IQ book from Wiley DePublisher* (by a Santa Barbara biker, safe streets advocate, human rights attorney and freelance journalist, Stephen Murdoch, who had plainly never read The g Factor [which Wiley de-published in 1996]) to an Oxford professor of Eng. Lit., John Carey (8 vii).
In fact, Prof. Carey did a passable job of defending IQ against the “ruthless animosity”** of Murdoch’s book, settling for saying IQ was no more to blame for selective education in Britain and America than Zyklon B had been responsible for the Holocaust – such was academic moderation by 2007….; but Carey splendidly revealed his own incompetence to be even such a ‘moderate’ critic of the London School by suggesting that Blacks would do better on IQ if tests were re-written in Black English*** – when it had been known since Arthur Jensen’s work around 1970’s that Blacks actually do even worse on mental tests that are altogether non-verbal.
* The DePublisher had celebrated its 2007 bicentenary by taking over the elite Blackwell publishing house and bookstore chain (Oxford, London, Edinburgh), indicating what the future held for the head-in-the-sand ‘liberal’-left ‘academic’ sh*ts of British luniversities. Having failed to defend The g Factor in 1996, academics were to find PeeCee literally enforced on them by the censorious DePublisher.
** Interviewed by the Santa Barbara Independent (8 vii), Murdoch summarized his thesis about power-hungry psychometrician-psychologists (apparently without acknowledgment to Leon Kamin, Stephen Jay Gould or Dave Spart): “In the early 20th century, the fledgling field of psychology used IQ tests to gain access and power in America through persuading people it could measure an innate ability called intelligence.” Apparently, said the Independent, Murdoch’s book, IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea, detailed how the tests had been used in surprising ways: to turn immigrants back on Ellis Island, to decide whether to sexually sterilize unwed mothers, and even, in the case of Nazi Germany, to determine if handicapped people should be executed. {In fact the last, humanitarian use – exempting dullards from mens rea – remained the major official use of IQ test through the 20th century.
*** An IQ-type quiz using Black idiom was actually developed in the 1970's -- e.g. asking the testee to supply the meaning of 'going down on.' The final test turned out to show no correlation in Blacks with measures of either the g factor or educational attainment.
Friday, July 06, 2007
WEST FORECAST TO BE LOST
A new book* about Muslim immigration into Europe (where police were already told not to be seen eating or drinking on Ramadan, and where restaurants increasingly sported women-only tables) forecast that, assuming civil war could be prevented, Europe faced a future of becoming pretty much like Latin America (American Conservative, 18 vi, review by Theodore Dalrymple).
* How the West Was Lost: The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent, Walter Laqueur, Thomas Dunne Books, 256 pages.
DIVERSITY DOUBTS RESURFACE
Harvard research by Robert Putnam (mentioned in this diary/blog last autumn), showing people living in racially diverse areas to be more unhappy and mistrustful even when a gamut of social factors were controlled, finally made it into the columns of the New York Times (17 vi). {For a fuller account of this yellow-bellied intellectual who hid his own non-peecee findings for five years, see `Diversity Is Strength! It's Also.Oh, Wait, Make That "Weakness",' by Steve Sailer (VDare, 1 vii).}
RACE DIFFERENCES GENETIC
A substantial finding that race differences (across eleven groups, including Serbian Roma [aka Gypsies]) on mental ability items (from Raven's Matrices) were largest on those items independently shown (by twin study) to be more strongly heritable made it into the Proceedings of the Royal Society (J. Philippe Rushton et al., PRSB 274, v 2007 [rushton@uwo.ca]) - only to be met with total neglect from Britain's continuingly peecee and ever-more-dumbed-down press. The authors concluded as follows (GMA = General Mental Ability):
GAYDOM DEEP-SEATED
A popularly written review of the past fifteen years of mounting evidence that, whether genetically or environmentally, male homosexuals are `feminized' and that (butch) lesbians are `masculinized' from an early age was provided by David France (himself apparently homosexual) (New York Magazine, 22 vi).
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS BACKED
To the embarrassment of Britain's wretched Daft-Dave-led `Conservative' Party, which had tried to distance itself from grammar schools without bothering to insist at least on the g factor and the importance of streaming (even if only via parental choice), and had slumped in the polls because of its internal divisions, new research by Buckingham University's Professor Dennis O'Keeffe reported that grammar schools were more helpful to bright working class kids than were the comprehensive schools which had replaced them thanks to a generation of misplaced socialist and Conservative-accepted idealism (Daily Telegraph, 25 vi, pp. 1-2).
The educational charity Sutton Trust (prop. Peter Lampl, a largely pro-g figure, though not liking to mention IQ) promptly tossed in an apparent finding of its own, that Britain had less intergenerational social mobility in 2006 than (a) most other European countries, and (b) Britain of the 1950's; and added that Britain's 500 leading figures in law, politics, medicine, journalism and business in 2007 still came mainly from independent schools despite years of universities being bullied to take more state school pupils from `bad postcode' areas. (Grammar schools provided 32% and comprehensives 17% of leading figures.)
Fed up with Daft Dave's general failure to get a grip, noted Tory MP Quentin Davies, a Thatcherite Europhile and maverick, resigned the `Conservative' whip in the Commons and joined the Labour Party (of whose new leader, Grumpy Gordon, he spoke in glowing terms, having worked with him on committees dealing with Treasury matters).
BLAIR DENOUNCED AS TRAITOR
As Shami Chakrabarti CBE, Director of Liberty, and Sean Gabb, Director of the Libertarian Alliance, denounced the departing Rev Bliar (deposed by Grumpy Gordon Brown, perhaps by means of blackmail over past homosexuality) for his assault on British freedoms, I added a comment at Sean's website:
I believe Sean is quite right to feel there was something uniquely awful about Blair's politics. When Blair first promised, in February, 1996, to return to streaming in schools, he was announcing the end of the left's post-1945 egalitarian delusion and an acceptance that people were radically different from each other and required different treatments. In practical terms, he was accepting the failure of the comprehensive model of education and allowing that education would need to imitate the West's great success story of medicine -- with proper attention to empirical facts and individual differences.
By 1998, however, it was clear that 'Education! Education! Education!' meant nothing apart from sloshing more paint on rotten wood (pretending that 'superheads' could transform bog standard comprehensives into 'city academies' etc.). And discrimination was further demonized in other areas too: it was not just the country and its officials but people themselves that could not choose to handle people according to their identities as female, Muslim, Black, homosexual, handicapped etc.; and such human differences and their consequences could not even be discussed without speakers putting at least their jobs at risk. British citizens were to be treated according to their bureaucratic status (and trivial biometric signs) and not according to their essential natures; and London psychologists got grants to study how to detect even covert discriminatory thoughts -- and thus how to make the `windows into men's souls' that even the far-from-libertarian Elizabeth I had famously abjured.
It is Blair's casual betrayal of the truth about deep-seated individual and racial differences that is so galling. By 2006 his minions began admitting that 'multiculturalism' would have to be abandoned; but, apart from it being by then too late, the new proposal of 'integration' had no serious thought given to it and indeed looked likely to end in enforced race-mixing in schools -- after a generation of people moving heaven and earth to live in areas of their own race.* Funnily, even Blair's one widely conceded 'achievement,' peace in Northern Ireland, was based essentially on Protestants and Catholics having mercilessly segregated themselves with the help of 15-foot fences. No wonder that Blair's worst disaster, the failure of peacekeeping in Iraq, was traceable directly to the multicultural delusion that Kurds, Shi-ites and Sunnis could live together without the assistance of savage dictatorship. To deny the realities of human nature leads not only to denial of freedom but ultimately to denial of life.
To have seen reality only to abandon it and ban others from talking about it is a betrayal of the modern Western belief that progress is possible by science and debate. That Blair should have done this while enjoying a happy family life, good health, American adulation and the consolations of Catholic religion is galling. That he should finally himself -- a prime beneficiary of British traditions -- have said he is no lover of Parliament is an insult that demands to be repaid.
* Labour Government chatter about compelling schools to have `diverse' racial mixes had begun just as the American Supreme Court was crucially striking down (5-4) as improperly racially discriminatory such `melting pot' efforts by American schools and state authorities. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. authored the most important opinion of his two terms leading the court. He held that plans which categorize students on the basis of race and use that in making school assignments violate the Constitution's promise of equal protection, even if the goal is integration of the schools. "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Roberts splendidly wrote (Washington Post, 28 vi).
MUESLIS SHOW WEST WHAT CAN BE DONE
As Muesli fanatics targeted Britain with three car bombs, the Grand Mufti of Egypt banned female circumcision (inflicted on 97% of Egyptian girls) (Reuters, 25 vi) and the political leaders of Palestine, Jordan and Egypt forbade mosques to allow preaching in favour of Hamas (Daily Telegraph, 29 vi) - setting a fine example to the West's traitorous politicians who had allowed their own homelands to become infested with Muslim extremism (with thousands of Muesli loons running around, inspired by bearded wonders at the Finsbury Park Mosque, a vastly larger number of internal enemies than had to be detained in 1939).
Even Britain's pathetic peecee Observer, though still not moved to demand the closure of one mosque for each Muesli murder attempt, admitted (1 vii): "Some believe that the solution to terrorism is to resolve the myriad grievances the terrorists broadcast so violently. This is a mistake. Many such grievances are imagined -- the West does not want to 'dominate the lands of Islam', for example. Many more are simply not Britain's fault; we are not to blame for the parlous economic state of many Islamic countries."
IQ ENTERS VIA THE BACK DOOR
Alison Wolf, Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College, London, wrote in her monthly colum in Times Higher (29 vi), that US-style Scholastic Aptitude/Achievement Tests might prove a better predictor of sutability for university than A levels. She was concerned with the age-old task of boosting the number of lower4-class student entrants to universities - and did not put her mission at risk by any mention of SAT scores being correlated at .90 (after correction for attenuation) with psychologists' mainstream measures of IQ and the g factor.
`CONSERVATIVES' FLOUNDER
After three attempted car bombings in Britain in three days by mad Mueslis (one an Iranian doctor with a burqa-wearing wife (also arrested)), `Conservative' leader Daft Dave Cameron needed to ask only one question: `After forty years of giving in to the IRA - with democracy now suspended in Northern Ireland so as to give the IRA terrorists jobs at Stormont -- does the Government propose to spend the next forty years pandering to Muesli extremists and finally introducing Shariah law in Northern England?' But, lacking the gumption to press such a question, Cameron lost the opportunity to condemn the Government for a lack of ideas and planning; thus he also lost what would have been the subsequent opportunity to go straight to Britain's Mueslis themselves and ask them to close one mosque per each Muesli atrocity as an act of good will - a request which Parliament would have readily agreed to turn into law if Muesli leaders had not obliged.
{Even a Quislingraph columnist said (2 vii) `We need Muslims to do more'; and the paper's leading article said, "It has been nearly two years since Tony Blair promised a showdown with the courts over their repeated blocking of repatriation orders. Since then, not a single hate preacher has been deported. On the contrary, Mr Brown has just promoted Lord Lester, the author of the legislation that made it so easy for the courts to overturn removal orders."}
IMMIGRATION LIES ADMITTED
Just a few days after the departure of the unlamented Rev. Bliar, investigative journalism by ITV's `Tonight with Trevor McDonald' forced the Government to admit that the allocation of Britain's `social housing ` to immigrants was not 1% -- as had been proclaimed in May - but 5%, i.e. some 10,000 state-owned houses in all (Daily Telegraph, 2 vii). Apparently HMG had decided to change its counting criteria when confronted with ITV's finding. At the same time, Prime Minister Brown let it be known he would clamp down on employers of immigrants, taxing them for employing non-British citizens and fining them 10K pounds if they failed to check whether immigrants had work permits.
GLASGOW'S SOCIALIST DAYDREAM
"The social consequences of welfare dependency scar our great towns and cities. In Glasgow, where 55 per cent of households have no earned income, male life expectancy is 69 years, lower than in the Gaza Strip, North Korea and Iran. In Calton, the poorest area of the city, male life expectancy is 54 years, which puts it on a par with sub-Saharan Africa. These shaming statistics have not happened because we have looked the other way: public money has poured in; state spending now accounts for 70 per cent of the Glasgow region's GDP, putting it on a par with the communist countries of the old Eastern bloc."
- Thus ex-Sunday Times editor and TV host Andrew Neil, writing in the Spectator (30 vi) of the decayed Irish-Catholic society left behind on Clydeside after it had destroyed its own livelihood by endless strikes, even at one point in the 1920s returning a Communist MP to Westminster.
NATIONAL TERROR SERVICE
After Britain's three (failed) Muesli car bomb attempts, it transpired that all seven arrested Mueslis (hailing from Iran, Yemen, Jordan, Pakistan, India etc.) had been working (as doctors, neurosurgeons, technicians etc.) for Britain's National Health Service - an observation that would not be lost on the thousands of aspiring young British student doctors who had been unable to get NHS jobs in 2007.
MUESLIS CONDEMN TERROR ???
`Praise for Islamic groups who condemned attacks' was the Grauniad headline over a story (3 vii) of how HMG was blaming Britain's triple car bomb attempts not on Mueslis but on al Qaeda, bin Liner, `communities'; but the article did not manage to name a single Muesli group which had "condemned" or even mildly criticized the attacks. By contrast, the British National Party had no difficulty finding a photo of top Muesli loon Anjem Choudary who had around the time of the first car bomb endorsed "attacks" on Britain and the Queen (3 vii). Understandably, the BNP added, "The BNP remains the only political party which stands firm, speaks the truth and says that there is no place for Islam in Britain."
FAXALIFE - EXCEPT THE g FACTOR
Psychology Today (3 vii) gave a preview of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, the evopsychology `Just So' stories compiled by Alan Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa and due for publication by Perigree Press in the autumn. Yet, though the stories were often engaging (`most men benefit from monogamy') and convincing (`blonde females are preferred because no old woman remains blonde'), they notably failed to include any faxalife about IQ or its inheritance and link to race differences - Kanazawa presumably having decided to respect the ban that the London School of Economics probably imposed on him in November, 2006, after he had noted that intelligence did not seem to be necessary to success in African countries.
The book was to be a follow up to the authors' Why Men Gamble and Women Buy Shoes, 2006, Oxford University Press.
Amazon Books recorded: "Until his untimely death in January 2003 at the age of 44, Alan S. Miller was Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hokkaido University, Japan, and Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. Professor Miller wrote widely in the areas of crime and deviant behaviour, religion, and cross-cultural social psychology. Recent publications include (with Satoshi Kanazawa) Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japanese Society (Westview Press, 2000).
Satoshi Kanazawa is Reader and Lecturer of Management and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was the first sociologist to introduce modern evolutionary psychology into sociology. His work has been widely featured in the media in several continents, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Times (London), Time, Psychology Today, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and on BBC Radio 4 and the National Public Radio's `All Things Considered,' among other TV and radio shows."
Unfortunately, the authors' story that suicide bombers are young men suffering fertility despair under polygyny (and drawn by the promise of 72 virgins) emerged just as the Jordanian Muesli brain surgeon who had organized the London and Glasgow car bomb attacks had had a son by Muesli lab technician wife in 2005.
MUESLIS TO CONSIDER CO-OPERATION
Following the three (failed) car bomb terror efforts by Muesli medics (lacking the usual excuses of poverty, hardship, miseducation and White racism), the Muslim Council of Britain urged Muslims in Britain to condemn and act against terror, and called a meeting in London of top imams to help U.K. security authorities. {Sadly, the MCB had tried this before without coming up with a single practicable suggestion - e.g. closing extremist mosques; the MCB remained wildly anti-Semitic, even refusing to join in the piety of Holocaust Day; and its former leader, Sir Iqbal Socranie, had joined in the Muesli protests against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie being awarded a knighthood (see June).}
WELFARISM SUSPENDED
Faced with accusations of `racism' in limiting welfare for abos to those who actually produced their kids well fed and clothed at school, Prime Minister John Howard resolved to extend his crackdown to Whites as well - heralding the end of welfarism as known-and-abused since 1945 (Herald Sun, 4 vii, 5 vii). {Experts had remarked for years that welfarism would break under the strain of having to cope with the unacceptable idiosyncrasies of other races.}
BBC SUCKS UP TO MUESLIS
Faced with three car bombings by elite Islamofascists in Britain, the BBC threw itself into an orgy of pleading for understanding of poor Mueslis; and likewise it begged Palestinians to release a balded, Palestine-loving and effeminate (homosexual?) BBC journalist whom they had kidnapped for >100 days in Gaza, finally applauding the murderers of Hamas when they graciously delivered their victim, who obligingly let himself be filmed dining with the murderous scum who had run rings round the Beeb.
A new book* about Muslim immigration into Europe (where police were already told not to be seen eating or drinking on Ramadan, and where restaurants increasingly sported women-only tables) forecast that, assuming civil war could be prevented, Europe faced a future of becoming pretty much like Latin America (American Conservative, 18 vi, review by Theodore Dalrymple).
* How the West Was Lost: The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent, Walter Laqueur, Thomas Dunne Books, 256 pages.
DIVERSITY DOUBTS RESURFACE
Harvard research by Robert Putnam (mentioned in this diary/blog last autumn), showing people living in racially diverse areas to be more unhappy and mistrustful even when a gamut of social factors were controlled, finally made it into the columns of the New York Times (17 vi). {For a fuller account of this yellow-bellied intellectual who hid his own non-peecee findings for five years, see `Diversity Is Strength! It's Also.Oh, Wait, Make That "Weakness",' by Steve Sailer (VDare, 1 vii).}
RACE DIFFERENCES GENETIC
A substantial finding that race differences (across eleven groups, including Serbian Roma [aka Gypsies]) on mental ability items (from Raven's Matrices) were largest on those items independently shown (by twin study) to be more strongly heritable made it into the Proceedings of the Royal Society (J. Philippe Rushton et al., PRSB 274, v 2007 [rushton@uwo.ca]) - only to be met with total neglect from Britain's continuingly peecee and ever-more-dumbed-down press. The authors concluded as follows (GMA = General Mental Ability):
GAYDOM DEEP-SEATED
A popularly written review of the past fifteen years of mounting evidence that, whether genetically or environmentally, male homosexuals are `feminized' and that (butch) lesbians are `masculinized' from an early age was provided by David France (himself apparently homosexual) (New York Magazine, 22 vi).
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS BACKED
To the embarrassment of Britain's wretched Daft-Dave-led `Conservative' Party, which had tried to distance itself from grammar schools without bothering to insist at least on the g factor and the importance of streaming (even if only via parental choice), and had slumped in the polls because of its internal divisions, new research by Buckingham University's Professor Dennis O'Keeffe reported that grammar schools were more helpful to bright working class kids than were the comprehensive schools which had replaced them thanks to a generation of misplaced socialist and Conservative-accepted idealism (Daily Telegraph, 25 vi, pp. 1-2).
The educational charity Sutton Trust (prop. Peter Lampl, a largely pro-g figure, though not liking to mention IQ) promptly tossed in an apparent finding of its own, that Britain had less intergenerational social mobility in 2006 than (a) most other European countries, and (b) Britain of the 1950's; and added that Britain's 500 leading figures in law, politics, medicine, journalism and business in 2007 still came mainly from independent schools despite years of universities being bullied to take more state school pupils from `bad postcode' areas. (Grammar schools provided 32% and comprehensives 17% of leading figures.)
Fed up with Daft Dave's general failure to get a grip, noted Tory MP Quentin Davies, a Thatcherite Europhile and maverick, resigned the `Conservative' whip in the Commons and joined the Labour Party (of whose new leader, Grumpy Gordon, he spoke in glowing terms, having worked with him on committees dealing with Treasury matters).
BLAIR DENOUNCED AS TRAITOR
As Shami Chakrabarti CBE, Director of Liberty, and Sean Gabb, Director of the Libertarian Alliance, denounced the departing Rev Bliar (deposed by Grumpy Gordon Brown, perhaps by means of blackmail over past homosexuality) for his assault on British freedoms, I added a comment at Sean's website:
I believe Sean is quite right to feel there was something uniquely awful about Blair's politics. When Blair first promised, in February, 1996, to return to streaming in schools, he was announcing the end of the left's post-1945 egalitarian delusion and an acceptance that people were radically different from each other and required different treatments. In practical terms, he was accepting the failure of the comprehensive model of education and allowing that education would need to imitate the West's great success story of medicine -- with proper attention to empirical facts and individual differences.
By 1998, however, it was clear that 'Education! Education! Education!' meant nothing apart from sloshing more paint on rotten wood (pretending that 'superheads' could transform bog standard comprehensives into 'city academies' etc.). And discrimination was further demonized in other areas too: it was not just the country and its officials but people themselves that could not choose to handle people according to their identities as female, Muslim, Black, homosexual, handicapped etc.; and such human differences and their consequences could not even be discussed without speakers putting at least their jobs at risk. British citizens were to be treated according to their bureaucratic status (and trivial biometric signs) and not according to their essential natures; and London psychologists got grants to study how to detect even covert discriminatory thoughts -- and thus how to make the `windows into men's souls' that even the far-from-libertarian Elizabeth I had famously abjured.
It is Blair's casual betrayal of the truth about deep-seated individual and racial differences that is so galling. By 2006 his minions began admitting that 'multiculturalism' would have to be abandoned; but, apart from it being by then too late, the new proposal of 'integration' had no serious thought given to it and indeed looked likely to end in enforced race-mixing in schools -- after a generation of people moving heaven and earth to live in areas of their own race.* Funnily, even Blair's one widely conceded 'achievement,' peace in Northern Ireland, was based essentially on Protestants and Catholics having mercilessly segregated themselves with the help of 15-foot fences. No wonder that Blair's worst disaster, the failure of peacekeeping in Iraq, was traceable directly to the multicultural delusion that Kurds, Shi-ites and Sunnis could live together without the assistance of savage dictatorship. To deny the realities of human nature leads not only to denial of freedom but ultimately to denial of life.
To have seen reality only to abandon it and ban others from talking about it is a betrayal of the modern Western belief that progress is possible by science and debate. That Blair should have done this while enjoying a happy family life, good health, American adulation and the consolations of Catholic religion is galling. That he should finally himself -- a prime beneficiary of British traditions -- have said he is no lover of Parliament is an insult that demands to be repaid.
* Labour Government chatter about compelling schools to have `diverse' racial mixes had begun just as the American Supreme Court was crucially striking down (5-4) as improperly racially discriminatory such `melting pot' efforts by American schools and state authorities. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. authored the most important opinion of his two terms leading the court. He held that plans which categorize students on the basis of race and use that in making school assignments violate the Constitution's promise of equal protection, even if the goal is integration of the schools. "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Roberts splendidly wrote (Washington Post, 28 vi).
MUESLIS SHOW WEST WHAT CAN BE DONE
As Muesli fanatics targeted Britain with three car bombs, the Grand Mufti of Egypt banned female circumcision (inflicted on 97% of Egyptian girls) (Reuters, 25 vi) and the political leaders of Palestine, Jordan and Egypt forbade mosques to allow preaching in favour of Hamas (Daily Telegraph, 29 vi) - setting a fine example to the West's traitorous politicians who had allowed their own homelands to become infested with Muslim extremism (with thousands of Muesli loons running around, inspired by bearded wonders at the Finsbury Park Mosque, a vastly larger number of internal enemies than had to be detained in 1939).
Even Britain's pathetic peecee Observer, though still not moved to demand the closure of one mosque for each Muesli murder attempt, admitted (1 vii): "Some believe that the solution to terrorism is to resolve the myriad grievances the terrorists broadcast so violently. This is a mistake. Many such grievances are imagined -- the West does not want to 'dominate the lands of Islam', for example. Many more are simply not Britain's fault; we are not to blame for the parlous economic state of many Islamic countries."
IQ ENTERS VIA THE BACK DOOR
Alison Wolf, Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College, London, wrote in her monthly colum in Times Higher (29 vi), that US-style Scholastic Aptitude/Achievement Tests might prove a better predictor of sutability for university than A levels. She was concerned with the age-old task of boosting the number of lower4-class student entrants to universities - and did not put her mission at risk by any mention of SAT scores being correlated at .90 (after correction for attenuation) with psychologists' mainstream measures of IQ and the g factor.
`CONSERVATIVES' FLOUNDER
After three attempted car bombings in Britain in three days by mad Mueslis (one an Iranian doctor with a burqa-wearing wife (also arrested)), `Conservative' leader Daft Dave Cameron needed to ask only one question: `After forty years of giving in to the IRA - with democracy now suspended in Northern Ireland so as to give the IRA terrorists jobs at Stormont -- does the Government propose to spend the next forty years pandering to Muesli extremists and finally introducing Shariah law in Northern England?' But, lacking the gumption to press such a question, Cameron lost the opportunity to condemn the Government for a lack of ideas and planning; thus he also lost what would have been the subsequent opportunity to go straight to Britain's Mueslis themselves and ask them to close one mosque per each Muesli atrocity as an act of good will - a request which Parliament would have readily agreed to turn into law if Muesli leaders had not obliged.
{Even a Quislingraph columnist said (2 vii) `We need Muslims to do more'; and the paper's leading article said, "It has been nearly two years since Tony Blair promised a showdown with the courts over their repeated blocking of repatriation orders. Since then, not a single hate preacher has been deported. On the contrary, Mr Brown has just promoted Lord Lester, the author of the legislation that made it so easy for the courts to overturn removal orders."}
IMMIGRATION LIES ADMITTED
Just a few days after the departure of the unlamented Rev. Bliar, investigative journalism by ITV's `Tonight with Trevor McDonald' forced the Government to admit that the allocation of Britain's `social housing ` to immigrants was not 1% -- as had been proclaimed in May - but 5%, i.e. some 10,000 state-owned houses in all (Daily Telegraph, 2 vii). Apparently HMG had decided to change its counting criteria when confronted with ITV's finding. At the same time, Prime Minister Brown let it be known he would clamp down on employers of immigrants, taxing them for employing non-British citizens and fining them 10K pounds if they failed to check whether immigrants had work permits.
GLASGOW'S SOCIALIST DAYDREAM
"The social consequences of welfare dependency scar our great towns and cities. In Glasgow, where 55 per cent of households have no earned income, male life expectancy is 69 years, lower than in the Gaza Strip, North Korea and Iran. In Calton, the poorest area of the city, male life expectancy is 54 years, which puts it on a par with sub-Saharan Africa. These shaming statistics have not happened because we have looked the other way: public money has poured in; state spending now accounts for 70 per cent of the Glasgow region's GDP, putting it on a par with the communist countries of the old Eastern bloc."
- Thus ex-Sunday Times editor and TV host Andrew Neil, writing in the Spectator (30 vi) of the decayed Irish-Catholic society left behind on Clydeside after it had destroyed its own livelihood by endless strikes, even at one point in the 1920s returning a Communist MP to Westminster.
NATIONAL TERROR SERVICE
After Britain's three (failed) Muesli car bomb attempts, it transpired that all seven arrested Mueslis (hailing from Iran, Yemen, Jordan, Pakistan, India etc.) had been working (as doctors, neurosurgeons, technicians etc.) for Britain's National Health Service - an observation that would not be lost on the thousands of aspiring young British student doctors who had been unable to get NHS jobs in 2007.
MUESLIS CONDEMN TERROR ???
`Praise for Islamic groups who condemned attacks' was the Grauniad headline over a story (3 vii) of how HMG was blaming Britain's triple car bomb attempts not on Mueslis but on al Qaeda, bin Liner, `communities'; but the article did not manage to name a single Muesli group which had "condemned" or even mildly criticized the attacks. By contrast, the British National Party had no difficulty finding a photo of top Muesli loon Anjem Choudary who had around the time of the first car bomb endorsed "attacks" on Britain and the Queen (3 vii). Understandably, the BNP added, "The BNP remains the only political party which stands firm, speaks the truth and says that there is no place for Islam in Britain."
FAXALIFE - EXCEPT THE g FACTOR
Psychology Today (3 vii) gave a preview of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, the evopsychology `Just So' stories compiled by Alan Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa and due for publication by Perigree Press in the autumn. Yet, though the stories were often engaging (`most men benefit from monogamy') and convincing (`blonde females are preferred because no old woman remains blonde'), they notably failed to include any faxalife about IQ or its inheritance and link to race differences - Kanazawa presumably having decided to respect the ban that the London School of Economics probably imposed on him in November, 2006, after he had noted that intelligence did not seem to be necessary to success in African countries.
The book was to be a follow up to the authors' Why Men Gamble and Women Buy Shoes, 2006, Oxford University Press.
Amazon Books recorded: "Until his untimely death in January 2003 at the age of 44, Alan S. Miller was Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hokkaido University, Japan, and Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. Professor Miller wrote widely in the areas of crime and deviant behaviour, religion, and cross-cultural social psychology. Recent publications include (with Satoshi Kanazawa) Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japanese Society (Westview Press, 2000).
Satoshi Kanazawa is Reader and Lecturer of Management and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was the first sociologist to introduce modern evolutionary psychology into sociology. His work has been widely featured in the media in several continents, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Times (London), Time, Psychology Today, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and on BBC Radio 4 and the National Public Radio's `All Things Considered,' among other TV and radio shows."
Unfortunately, the authors' story that suicide bombers are young men suffering fertility despair under polygyny (and drawn by the promise of 72 virgins) emerged just as the Jordanian Muesli brain surgeon who had organized the London and Glasgow car bomb attacks had had a son by Muesli lab technician wife in 2005.
MUESLIS TO CONSIDER CO-OPERATION
Following the three (failed) car bomb terror efforts by Muesli medics (lacking the usual excuses of poverty, hardship, miseducation and White racism), the Muslim Council of Britain urged Muslims in Britain to condemn and act against terror, and called a meeting in London of top imams to help U.K. security authorities. {Sadly, the MCB had tried this before without coming up with a single practicable suggestion - e.g. closing extremist mosques; the MCB remained wildly anti-Semitic, even refusing to join in the piety of Holocaust Day; and its former leader, Sir Iqbal Socranie, had joined in the Muesli protests against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie being awarded a knighthood (see June).}
WELFARISM SUSPENDED
Faced with accusations of `racism' in limiting welfare for abos to those who actually produced their kids well fed and clothed at school, Prime Minister John Howard resolved to extend his crackdown to Whites as well - heralding the end of welfarism as known-and-abused since 1945 (Herald Sun, 4 vii, 5 vii). {Experts had remarked for years that welfarism would break under the strain of having to cope with the unacceptable idiosyncrasies of other races.}
BBC SUCKS UP TO MUESLIS
Faced with three car bombings by elite Islamofascists in Britain, the BBC threw itself into an orgy of pleading for understanding of poor Mueslis; and likewise it begged Palestinians to release a balded, Palestine-loving and effeminate (homosexual?) BBC journalist whom they had kidnapped for >100 days in Gaza, finally applauding the murderers of Hamas when they graciously delivered their victim, who obligingly let himself be filmed dining with the murderous scum who had run rings round the Beeb.
Monday, June 25, 2007
NOT-THE-CONSERVATIVES SEEN IN THEIR TRUE COLOURS - ALL SHADES OF YELLOW
It fell to the independent London think-tank Civitas to expose, in its The Corruption of the Curriculum, how most state school teaching in Britain of the 21st century had been converted by Labour, without a squeak from 'Conservatives,' into variants of political correctness, multiculturalism, Hitler-obsession, Greenery, anti-imperialism, anti-racism, anti-homophobism and emotionalism (learning how countries and people 'feel' rather than learning where they are or their actual history) (Daily Telegraph, 11 vi).
Likewise, when Labour moderate Hazel Blears complained that her constituents in Salford objected to immigrants partying on the streets, filling up doctors' surgeries, undercutting the national minimum wage and violating health and safety regulations by living 12 to a room,* she found herself jumped on for 'stereotyping immigrants' not just by leftist John Cruddas but also by 'Conservative' Shadow Home Secretary David Davis.
Mr Davis had also written to Prime Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown asking him to clarify his position on immigration, saying he he was "concerned" by a speech the Chancellor made about training up 'British workers for the British jobs'. Again, it was not a Conservative but a (rebel) Labour MP, Frank Field, who revealed that, in wonky welfare Britain with its endless socialist benefits, allowances and tax credits, a single parent mother could make œ487 per week by working just 16 hours whereas a two-parent family on the minimum wage needed to put in 116 hours.
And President George W. Bush, fresh from his years of allowing America to be overrun by slave-labouring Mexicans, could not resist sucking up to the cheering crowds of Muslims in Albania who expected him soon to hand them Kosovo and put two fingers up to that province's 120,000 Serbs.** (Ironically, among the cheering Albanian crowd which he was glad-handing, Dubya had his Timex wristwatch stolen (Sun, 13 vi).)
In Britain it transpired that Metropolitan Police, scared of being thought racist, had five times failed to pursue reports by a Kurdish girl, 19, that her father was planning to kill her because he didn't approve of her boyfriend - the father and a relative were finally jailed for murdering her, and all the police had done - rather than quiz the father -- was to offer a 'panic button' or a place in a 'women's refuge' (Times, 13 vi).
'Conservatives' who had attacked grammar schools were given a resounding raspberry as research in Northern Ireland (where some 80 grammar schools had been maintained through a generation of indifference from Conservative leaders, serving communities delineated more by religious affiliation than by whether or not parents could afford to live in a grammar school's catchment area) showed selectivity "helped poor pupils as much as those from wealthy backgrounds" (Daily Telegraph, 13 vi).
* Mrs Blears added: "Salford used to be 93 per cent white working class. Our community's changing before our eyes. People can see it and they get worried - if it [i.e. immigration] is not being managed properly. Everyone is working harder now probably than they have worked before and they feel that everyone who can work should. They don't like people to avoid paying taxes: if they have got to do it, everyone else should." She thus joined Labour ministers Ruth Kelly and Margaret Hodge in expressing more (verbal) concern about immigration than had been heard from 'Conservatives' in five years.
A Daily Mail columnist jested: "Ruth Kelly, the honourable member for the Da Vinci Code, is telling Town Halls to sack interpreters and force immigrants to learn English. Blairite muppet Hazel Blears was reported as provoking a 'political row' for suggesting that some of the migrants in her Salford constituency spend their days drinking in the streets and indulging in anti-social behaviour. She didn't provoke a 'political row', she told the truth - something no one on the right of the political spectrum would dare to do."
** Serbia had been a valued ally of Britain and America in two World Wars but had found itself the victim of the liberal-bigot interventionism of Messrs Clinton and Blair when it tried to resist the takeover of its ancient province of Kosovo by crime-prone Albanians (who, once supported by Clinton and Bliar, soon ended up running half the prostitutes in London).
RACE DIFFERENCE IN BRAIN WAVES
"Markedly" less slow-wave activity in the brain during sleep was reported in Afro-Americans (as compared to Whites) (Science Daily, 13 vi).
BLECKS TO BUST BLECKS?
France's President Sarkozy, fresh from achieving a comfortable majority for his anti-socialist forces in the French Parliament, appointed three Black feminist women (some of them rather pretty) to help him bust Muesli immigrant balls. {Whether this move would do more than Rev. Bliar having Bleck 'Baroness'Amis to heel and Rev. Dubya having piano-sportive Negress Condoleeza Rice (possibly a girlfriend of Grumpy Gordon's jobseeker Jack Straw) remained to be seen.}
It fell to the independent London think-tank Civitas to expose, in its The Corruption of the Curriculum, how most state school teaching in Britain of the 21st century had been converted by Labour, without a squeak from 'Conservatives,' into variants of political correctness, multiculturalism, Hitler-obsession, Greenery, anti-imperialism, anti-racism, anti-homophobism and emotionalism (learning how countries and people 'feel' rather than learning where they are or their actual history) (Daily Telegraph, 11 vi).
Likewise, when Labour moderate Hazel Blears complained that her constituents in Salford objected to immigrants partying on the streets, filling up doctors' surgeries, undercutting the national minimum wage and violating health and safety regulations by living 12 to a room,* she found herself jumped on for 'stereotyping immigrants' not just by leftist John Cruddas but also by 'Conservative' Shadow Home Secretary David Davis.
Mr Davis had also written to Prime Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown asking him to clarify his position on immigration, saying he he was "concerned" by a speech the Chancellor made about training up 'British workers for the British jobs'. Again, it was not a Conservative but a (rebel) Labour MP, Frank Field, who revealed that, in wonky welfare Britain with its endless socialist benefits, allowances and tax credits, a single parent mother could make œ487 per week by working just 16 hours whereas a two-parent family on the minimum wage needed to put in 116 hours.
And President George W. Bush, fresh from his years of allowing America to be overrun by slave-labouring Mexicans, could not resist sucking up to the cheering crowds of Muslims in Albania who expected him soon to hand them Kosovo and put two fingers up to that province's 120,000 Serbs.** (Ironically, among the cheering Albanian crowd which he was glad-handing, Dubya had his Timex wristwatch stolen (Sun, 13 vi).)
In Britain it transpired that Metropolitan Police, scared of being thought racist, had five times failed to pursue reports by a Kurdish girl, 19, that her father was planning to kill her because he didn't approve of her boyfriend - the father and a relative were finally jailed for murdering her, and all the police had done - rather than quiz the father -- was to offer a 'panic button' or a place in a 'women's refuge' (Times, 13 vi).
'Conservatives' who had attacked grammar schools were given a resounding raspberry as research in Northern Ireland (where some 80 grammar schools had been maintained through a generation of indifference from Conservative leaders, serving communities delineated more by religious affiliation than by whether or not parents could afford to live in a grammar school's catchment area) showed selectivity "helped poor pupils as much as those from wealthy backgrounds" (Daily Telegraph, 13 vi).
* Mrs Blears added: "Salford used to be 93 per cent white working class. Our community's changing before our eyes. People can see it and they get worried - if it [i.e. immigration] is not being managed properly. Everyone is working harder now probably than they have worked before and they feel that everyone who can work should. They don't like people to avoid paying taxes: if they have got to do it, everyone else should." She thus joined Labour ministers Ruth Kelly and Margaret Hodge in expressing more (verbal) concern about immigration than had been heard from 'Conservatives' in five years.
A Daily Mail columnist jested: "Ruth Kelly, the honourable member for the Da Vinci Code, is telling Town Halls to sack interpreters and force immigrants to learn English. Blairite muppet Hazel Blears was reported as provoking a 'political row' for suggesting that some of the migrants in her Salford constituency spend their days drinking in the streets and indulging in anti-social behaviour. She didn't provoke a 'political row', she told the truth - something no one on the right of the political spectrum would dare to do."
** Serbia had been a valued ally of Britain and America in two World Wars but had found itself the victim of the liberal-bigot interventionism of Messrs Clinton and Blair when it tried to resist the takeover of its ancient province of Kosovo by crime-prone Albanians (who, once supported by Clinton and Bliar, soon ended up running half the prostitutes in London).
RACE DIFFERENCE IN BRAIN WAVES
"Markedly" less slow-wave activity in the brain during sleep was reported in Afro-Americans (as compared to Whites) (Science Daily, 13 vi).
BLECKS TO BUST BLECKS?
France's President Sarkozy, fresh from achieving a comfortable majority for his anti-socialist forces in the French Parliament, appointed three Black feminist women (some of them rather pretty) to help him bust Muesli immigrant balls. {Whether this move would do more than Rev. Bliar having Bleck 'Baroness'Amis to heel and Rev. Dubya having piano-sportive Negress Condoleeza Rice (possibly a girlfriend of Grumpy Gordon's jobseeker Jack Straw) remained to be seen.}
Monday, June 11, 2007
UNIVERSITIES REVEAL THEIR NEO-LEFT BIAS
(Update)
At Harvard, Alan Dershowitz found himself in conflict about Israel with evolutionary psychologist Robert Trivers, whose two sisters had both married Lebanese men. As a result of an aggressive letter from Trivers, Harvard cancelled a lecture to have been given by Trivers.
In London, top lawyer Anthony Julius (of the firm Mischcon de Reya which had won Princess Diana a 17M pound divorce settlement) announced he would join with Dershowitz to give British universities a hard time. In Israel, the Knesset began debating a proposal that all British imports should be plainly labelled as coming from a country which was involved in anti-Semitic campaigning; and unions said they would likely decline to unload British goods at docks and airports
From Harvard, Dershowitz said "today there is more anti-Semitism in the U.K. than there is in Germany" and swore he would have no trouble getting 10,000 U.S. academics to respond in kind to any British boycott of Israeli universities. He threatened to "devastate and bankrupt" British universities and academics and to cut them off from the rest of the world. He planned to put forward legislative proposals to "impose extraordinarily punitive sanctions on any institution that boycotts Israeli academics." The U.S. House of Representatives began considering a resolution condemning Britain's University and College Union for its proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
In a most unusually forthright leader, Times Higher (7 vi) said the boycott proposal depended on the discredited notion of `collective guilt' and was "spectacularly foolish" and "unethical, unworkable, unpredictable and utterly useless." The proposal had first been put forward by arch-leftist-loon (and decrier of The g Factor and front man for Britain's `Socialist Workers') Steven Rose, professor of biology at the Open University, with a letter to the Guardian in 2002 arguing for a moratorium on European funding of Israeli research.
The leadership of UCU was said to be hoping against hope that a ballot of its entire membership could eventually be used frustrate the 158 - 99 conference vote of delegates to discuss boycotting Israel's universities. And a Labour Government minister was despatched from London to Jerusalem to apologize for the chaos in British university life. But the National Union of Journalists had also voted for a boycott, and a similar demand was thought to be forthcoming from one of Britain's giant labour unions; so the happy prospect beckoned that the Jewish community would finally break with the left and, above all, the causes of multiculturalism and political correctness which leading Jews had disastrously done so much to foster in the West.
PEECEE DEFIED (1)
Contrary to the widely respected piety of political correctness, a book review in Nature (31 v)* admitted that the main factor in the high rate of AIDS in Africa was simply multiple concurrent promiscuity by Africans. For twenty years, official public thinking by U.N. AIDS gurus had been that AIDS should not be blamed on African `cultural practices' {including anal sex and the drying out of the vagina with alum stones to provide the male with more friction}. Instead, AIDS was attributed to poverty, `gender inequality,' racial discrimination, lack of health care, lack of supply of condoms from the West, and penetrative paedophilia {and doubtless `interaction effects'}.
But it turned out in books* by a U. Cal. epidemiologist and an experienced Africa-hand journalist that none of these factors was of much importance; nor was the sheer number of sexual partners. Contrary to the U.N. view that AIDS was a population problem requiring widespread re-education so as to provide jobs for Western carers and sharers, it turned out that the U.N. had substantially overestimated AIDS prevalence in Africa (by using figures handily obtained from pregnant women presenting themselves at clinics); that AIDS invariably took hold in small high-risk groups, all unmentionable by the pious, being principally yags, druggies and whores; and that AIDS spread wider only when there was rampant concurrent promiscuity.
As AIDS ravaged Uganda, local leaders had enough sense to urge that African polygamy be serial rather than concurrent and a government-sponsored campaign of `Zero Grazing' had the impressive result of reducing new AIDS cases for the first time ever in Africa. Thus decades of propaganda pitched at general re-education and welfare had done little but indulge Western peecee idealism and been largely a waste of the West's money.
* Stephen LEWIS & Paul DONOVAN, 2007, `Time for a change? - Two books on the AIDS pandemic in Africa challenge assumptions at the heart of the U.N.'s response.' Nature, 31 v, p. 31-2.
** 1. James CHIN, The AIDS Pandemic, Radcliffe. 2. Helen EPSTEIN, 2007, The Invisible Cure, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
PEECEE DEFIED (2)
To the credit of the University of Edinburgh for once in ten years, a committee of senior professors set up by the University faced down PeeCee and recommended withdrawal of the honorary degree which the University had once foolishly - in enthusiasm for the ending of British colonialism -- awarded to African Marxist `freedom fighter' Robert Mugabe who had gone on to tyrannize and wreck the once so prosperous land of Southern Rhodesia; Edinburgh's Senate concurred, so cancellation went ahead - though with the murdering dictator, 83, saying he would `lose no sleep' over the matter, having already had 23 years in which to dine out on his honour.
(The University said that - unlike everyone else -- it had not been aware when conferring the degree that Mugabe, using North-Korea-trained troops, had slaughtered 20,000 Black Africans in Matabeleland -- members of the Ndebele tribe which had stayed loyal to the opposition leader Joshua Nkomo (International Herald Tribune, 6 vi).
The country's agricultural economy had collapsed since 1997 when Mugabe brought in laws allowing the forced seizure of almost all White-owned farms, reducing life expectancy for men to 37, and to 34 for women.)
Prime Minister Blair said he fully endorsed the decision; and Michigan State University and U. Massachusetts-Boston also edged nearer to stripping the monster of the titles which they had given him (his degree at UMass-B being conferred personally by the daughter of Saint Nelso Mandela).
Also, as Professor Ian Deary FRSE, FAMS raised 13.5M pounds from the charity `Help the Aged,' the University found it could allow a widely-publicized fishing expedition in life-history data to go ahead on 1,000 Scottish oldies who had been tested for IQ in childhood (1947), the idea being to replicate the Schwartzman et al. (1987, Canadian J. Psychol.) finding that IQ is massively stable across adult life (r = .78 for the Canadian WWII conscripts) - though Ian Deary was probably required not to mention genes too much to inquisitive newsies, but rather to throw them scraps such as smoking being associated with a 2.5 IQ-point drop by age 70 for reasons needing further research (Glasgow Herald, 1 vi; Guardian, 2 vi; Daily Telegraph, 4 vi).
(Update)
At Harvard, Alan Dershowitz found himself in conflict about Israel with evolutionary psychologist Robert Trivers, whose two sisters had both married Lebanese men. As a result of an aggressive letter from Trivers, Harvard cancelled a lecture to have been given by Trivers.
In London, top lawyer Anthony Julius (of the firm Mischcon de Reya which had won Princess Diana a 17M pound divorce settlement) announced he would join with Dershowitz to give British universities a hard time. In Israel, the Knesset began debating a proposal that all British imports should be plainly labelled as coming from a country which was involved in anti-Semitic campaigning; and unions said they would likely decline to unload British goods at docks and airports
From Harvard, Dershowitz said "today there is more anti-Semitism in the U.K. than there is in Germany" and swore he would have no trouble getting 10,000 U.S. academics to respond in kind to any British boycott of Israeli universities. He threatened to "devastate and bankrupt" British universities and academics and to cut them off from the rest of the world. He planned to put forward legislative proposals to "impose extraordinarily punitive sanctions on any institution that boycotts Israeli academics." The U.S. House of Representatives began considering a resolution condemning Britain's University and College Union for its proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
In a most unusually forthright leader, Times Higher (7 vi) said the boycott proposal depended on the discredited notion of `collective guilt' and was "spectacularly foolish" and "unethical, unworkable, unpredictable and utterly useless." The proposal had first been put forward by arch-leftist-loon (and decrier of The g Factor and front man for Britain's `Socialist Workers') Steven Rose, professor of biology at the Open University, with a letter to the Guardian in 2002 arguing for a moratorium on European funding of Israeli research.
The leadership of UCU was said to be hoping against hope that a ballot of its entire membership could eventually be used frustrate the 158 - 99 conference vote of delegates to discuss boycotting Israel's universities. And a Labour Government minister was despatched from London to Jerusalem to apologize for the chaos in British university life. But the National Union of Journalists had also voted for a boycott, and a similar demand was thought to be forthcoming from one of Britain's giant labour unions; so the happy prospect beckoned that the Jewish community would finally break with the left and, above all, the causes of multiculturalism and political correctness which leading Jews had disastrously done so much to foster in the West.
PEECEE DEFIED (1)
Contrary to the widely respected piety of political correctness, a book review in Nature (31 v)* admitted that the main factor in the high rate of AIDS in Africa was simply multiple concurrent promiscuity by Africans. For twenty years, official public thinking by U.N. AIDS gurus had been that AIDS should not be blamed on African `cultural practices' {including anal sex and the drying out of the vagina with alum stones to provide the male with more friction}. Instead, AIDS was attributed to poverty, `gender inequality,' racial discrimination, lack of health care, lack of supply of condoms from the West, and penetrative paedophilia {and doubtless `interaction effects'}.
But it turned out in books* by a U. Cal. epidemiologist and an experienced Africa-hand journalist that none of these factors was of much importance; nor was the sheer number of sexual partners. Contrary to the U.N. view that AIDS was a population problem requiring widespread re-education so as to provide jobs for Western carers and sharers, it turned out that the U.N. had substantially overestimated AIDS prevalence in Africa (by using figures handily obtained from pregnant women presenting themselves at clinics); that AIDS invariably took hold in small high-risk groups, all unmentionable by the pious, being principally yags, druggies and whores; and that AIDS spread wider only when there was rampant concurrent promiscuity.
As AIDS ravaged Uganda, local leaders had enough sense to urge that African polygamy be serial rather than concurrent and a government-sponsored campaign of `Zero Grazing' had the impressive result of reducing new AIDS cases for the first time ever in Africa. Thus decades of propaganda pitched at general re-education and welfare had done little but indulge Western peecee idealism and been largely a waste of the West's money.
* Stephen LEWIS & Paul DONOVAN, 2007, `Time for a change? - Two books on the AIDS pandemic in Africa challenge assumptions at the heart of the U.N.'s response.' Nature, 31 v, p. 31-2.
** 1. James CHIN, The AIDS Pandemic, Radcliffe. 2. Helen EPSTEIN, 2007, The Invisible Cure, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
PEECEE DEFIED (2)
To the credit of the University of Edinburgh for once in ten years, a committee of senior professors set up by the University faced down PeeCee and recommended withdrawal of the honorary degree which the University had once foolishly - in enthusiasm for the ending of British colonialism -- awarded to African Marxist `freedom fighter' Robert Mugabe who had gone on to tyrannize and wreck the once so prosperous land of Southern Rhodesia; Edinburgh's Senate concurred, so cancellation went ahead - though with the murdering dictator, 83, saying he would `lose no sleep' over the matter, having already had 23 years in which to dine out on his honour.
(The University said that - unlike everyone else -- it had not been aware when conferring the degree that Mugabe, using North-Korea-trained troops, had slaughtered 20,000 Black Africans in Matabeleland -- members of the Ndebele tribe which had stayed loyal to the opposition leader Joshua Nkomo (International Herald Tribune, 6 vi).
The country's agricultural economy had collapsed since 1997 when Mugabe brought in laws allowing the forced seizure of almost all White-owned farms, reducing life expectancy for men to 37, and to 34 for women.)
Prime Minister Blair said he fully endorsed the decision; and Michigan State University and U. Massachusetts-Boston also edged nearer to stripping the monster of the titles which they had given him (his degree at UMass-B being conferred personally by the daughter of Saint Nelso Mandela).
Also, as Professor Ian Deary FRSE, FAMS raised 13.5M pounds from the charity `Help the Aged,' the University found it could allow a widely-publicized fishing expedition in life-history data to go ahead on 1,000 Scottish oldies who had been tested for IQ in childhood (1947), the idea being to replicate the Schwartzman et al. (1987, Canadian J. Psychol.) finding that IQ is massively stable across adult life (r = .78 for the Canadian WWII conscripts) - though Ian Deary was probably required not to mention genes too much to inquisitive newsies, but rather to throw them scraps such as smoking being associated with a 2.5 IQ-point drop by age 70 for reasons needing further research (Glasgow Herald, 1 vi; Guardian, 2 vi; Daily Telegraph, 4 vi).
Saturday, June 02, 2007
SEX DIFFERENCE RE-ASSERTED, SHOCKING EDINBURGH FEMININNIE
Bravely rivalling Harvard's Professor Steven Pinker and President Larry Summers in willingness to admit deep-seated psychological sex differences (as per Chapter 1 of The g Factor), Cambridge University's Simon Baron-Cohen (first cousin of top comedian Sasha and author of The Essential Difference) explained how men were `systematizers' and women were `communicators,' and found himself promptly jumped on (along with Louann Brizendine, the American author of The Female Brain) in Times Higher (25 v) from the LUniversity of Edinburgh, where one Wendy Faulkner, `reader in technology,' declared with all the faith of the 1960's (when `labelling theory' was invented): "The labels `male/female brains' serve to `naturalize' presumed differences in how much women and men care about people."
CENSORIOUS LUNIVERSITY LAMBASTED
The LUniversity of Edinburgh - fresh from banning Gideon bibles, prayers at graduation and Christian criticism of homosexuality - provoked complaint (though also much jubilation from Wiccans et al.) when it turned out that was planning to host a convention of pagans scheduled to include practical classes and many colourful visual aids (Scotsman, 26 v. `All hell breaks out as pagans given go-ahead for university gathering'). The university was condemned as "Christianophobic" by a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church; many Scottish Christians were said to be irate at paganism being celebrated by the university just half a mile from the Edinburgh Grassmarket site where hundreds of witches and other heretics were burned to death in the 16th and 17th centuries (Ecumenical News International, 30 v), and top columnist Tim Luckhurst (appointed from June as Professor of Journalism in the University of Kent) tore into it (Daily Mail, 28 v), complaining that "Edinburgh University places pagan beliefs ahead of Christian ones"; that "This great university is in danger of confusing tolerance of the eccentric with discrimination against the reasonable"; that "PC is often trivial, but the elevation of madness above reason is not"; and that the university was "falling into the trap of relativism" by tolerating the mention of some opinions but not others. I wrote as follows to Tim Luckhurst and Scottish media folk.
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Tim Luckhurst is to be congratulated on taking Edinburgh University firmly to task for tolerating the views of pagans better than those of Christians ('Pagans winning the free speech race,' Daily Mail, 28th May, 2007). However his belief that academic staff are 'guaranteed protection from hostility to their opinions' (a protection he wants to extend to the opinions of their students) suggests he is (strangely, for an ex-editor of the Scotsman) unaware of how, over 15 months in 1996-7, Edinburgh University moved heaven and earth to sack me after I had spoken against the pieties of anti-racism, feminazism, egalitarianism and paedohysteria -- eventually succeeding, though the University later paid me compensation for 'unfair dismissal' rather than face a public trial of their actions before an Employment Tribunal. My case, which showed there was no such thing as academic free speech in Britain (I have not since worked as an academic), was soon followed by others where British universities (Sussex, Leeds, Imperial, LSE) managed to persuade academics into silence and/or early retirement after they had expressed politically incorrect views on race, IQ and heredity. Any who doubt the wide extent of 'liberal'-left censorship of contrary opinions in British universities should just try the exercise of phoning E.U. Psychology and asking why race and general intelligence are linked. E.U. can doubtless be praised for contributing to the gaiety of nations by encouraging its girls to get their kit off on Calton Hill or in the warmer environs of university premises, but such entertainment will soon peter out as peecee intolerance spreads its freedom-crushing net to `reconcile' pagan acceptance of drink, drugs and orgies with the preachments of homophobic veiled-up Islam. Sincerely, -- Chris Brand (Edinburgh, author of 'The 'g' Factor', 1996/2000 [http://www.douance.org/qi/brandbook.htm]).
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In the USA, the University of Southern Illinois paid out big-time to its Christian Union, whose beliefs [probably about homosexuality] it had tried to circumscribe (Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 v).
UNIVERSITIES REVEAL THEIR NEO-LEFT BIAS
Showing a further leftward swing in the universities (beyond the Labourism that had gone unremarked and uncontested by `Conservatives' for thirty years) towards the new `wretched of the earth,' the Mueslis, Britain's University and College Union voted at its annual conference in Bournemouth (BBC, 30 v): (1) to refuse co-operation with the Government in pinpointing terrorist suspects on campus, (2) to criminalize any school or college teaching which suggested heterosexuality was more desirable than homosexuality, and (3) to explore (contrary to its leaders' wishes) the option of a full-scale academic boycott against Israel.
The proposed treachery to the only successful universities in the Middle East was promptly noticed by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who said that he would "devastate" boycott supporters economically and that a boycott would "mark the end of British academics' reputation as serious scholars" (Times Higher, 1 vi); and top columnist Charles Moore lambasted the "silly dons" who would "half-excuse turbaned torturers for kidnapping our fellow citizens while trying to exclude Jewish biochemists from lecturing to our students (Daily Telegraph, 2 vi). "The UCU boycott motion is an assault on academic freedom," said Jeremy Newmark, the chief executive of Britain's Jewish leadership council. "While the vast majority of academics do not support a boycott, the decision damages the credibility of British academia as a whole."
UCU leader Sally Hunt said she doubted delegates' enthusiasm for cutting of European Union funding of Israeli universities was representative of feeling among the UCU's wider 120,000 membership; but the neo-leftist victory was another straw in the wind, showing the hard left spreading out from anti-racism and a degree of anti-male bias (to keep feminists sweet) to confrontation with Evangelicals, the Roman Catholic Church and Russia over their `homophobia' and with the left's old friends, the Jews, over `Israeli imperialistic warmongering.' A sharp protest was issued by Israel to the British Foreign Office (Haaretz, 2 vi).
Bravely rivalling Harvard's Professor Steven Pinker and President Larry Summers in willingness to admit deep-seated psychological sex differences (as per Chapter 1 of The g Factor), Cambridge University's Simon Baron-Cohen (first cousin of top comedian Sasha and author of The Essential Difference) explained how men were `systematizers' and women were `communicators,' and found himself promptly jumped on (along with Louann Brizendine, the American author of The Female Brain) in Times Higher (25 v) from the LUniversity of Edinburgh, where one Wendy Faulkner, `reader in technology,' declared with all the faith of the 1960's (when `labelling theory' was invented): "The labels `male/female brains' serve to `naturalize' presumed differences in how much women and men care about people."
CENSORIOUS LUNIVERSITY LAMBASTED
The LUniversity of Edinburgh - fresh from banning Gideon bibles, prayers at graduation and Christian criticism of homosexuality - provoked complaint (though also much jubilation from Wiccans et al.) when it turned out that was planning to host a convention of pagans scheduled to include practical classes and many colourful visual aids (Scotsman, 26 v. `All hell breaks out as pagans given go-ahead for university gathering'). The university was condemned as "Christianophobic" by a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church; many Scottish Christians were said to be irate at paganism being celebrated by the university just half a mile from the Edinburgh Grassmarket site where hundreds of witches and other heretics were burned to death in the 16th and 17th centuries (Ecumenical News International, 30 v), and top columnist Tim Luckhurst (appointed from June as Professor of Journalism in the University of Kent) tore into it (Daily Mail, 28 v), complaining that "Edinburgh University places pagan beliefs ahead of Christian ones"; that "This great university is in danger of confusing tolerance of the eccentric with discrimination against the reasonable"; that "PC is often trivial, but the elevation of madness above reason is not"; and that the university was "falling into the trap of relativism" by tolerating the mention of some opinions but not others. I wrote as follows to Tim Luckhurst and Scottish media folk.
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Tim Luckhurst is to be congratulated on taking Edinburgh University firmly to task for tolerating the views of pagans better than those of Christians ('Pagans winning the free speech race,' Daily Mail, 28th May, 2007). However his belief that academic staff are 'guaranteed protection from hostility to their opinions' (a protection he wants to extend to the opinions of their students) suggests he is (strangely, for an ex-editor of the Scotsman) unaware of how, over 15 months in 1996-7, Edinburgh University moved heaven and earth to sack me after I had spoken against the pieties of anti-racism, feminazism, egalitarianism and paedohysteria -- eventually succeeding, though the University later paid me compensation for 'unfair dismissal' rather than face a public trial of their actions before an Employment Tribunal. My case, which showed there was no such thing as academic free speech in Britain (I have not since worked as an academic), was soon followed by others where British universities (Sussex, Leeds, Imperial, LSE) managed to persuade academics into silence and/or early retirement after they had expressed politically incorrect views on race, IQ and heredity. Any who doubt the wide extent of 'liberal'-left censorship of contrary opinions in British universities should just try the exercise of phoning E.U. Psychology and asking why race and general intelligence are linked. E.U. can doubtless be praised for contributing to the gaiety of nations by encouraging its girls to get their kit off on Calton Hill or in the warmer environs of university premises, but such entertainment will soon peter out as peecee intolerance spreads its freedom-crushing net to `reconcile' pagan acceptance of drink, drugs and orgies with the preachments of homophobic veiled-up Islam. Sincerely, -- Chris Brand (Edinburgh, author of 'The 'g' Factor', 1996/2000 [http://www.douance.org/qi/brandbook.htm]).
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In the USA, the University of Southern Illinois paid out big-time to its Christian Union, whose beliefs [probably about homosexuality] it had tried to circumscribe (Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 v).
UNIVERSITIES REVEAL THEIR NEO-LEFT BIAS
Showing a further leftward swing in the universities (beyond the Labourism that had gone unremarked and uncontested by `Conservatives' for thirty years) towards the new `wretched of the earth,' the Mueslis, Britain's University and College Union voted at its annual conference in Bournemouth (BBC, 30 v): (1) to refuse co-operation with the Government in pinpointing terrorist suspects on campus, (2) to criminalize any school or college teaching which suggested heterosexuality was more desirable than homosexuality, and (3) to explore (contrary to its leaders' wishes) the option of a full-scale academic boycott against Israel.
The proposed treachery to the only successful universities in the Middle East was promptly noticed by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who said that he would "devastate" boycott supporters economically and that a boycott would "mark the end of British academics' reputation as serious scholars" (Times Higher, 1 vi); and top columnist Charles Moore lambasted the "silly dons" who would "half-excuse turbaned torturers for kidnapping our fellow citizens while trying to exclude Jewish biochemists from lecturing to our students (Daily Telegraph, 2 vi). "The UCU boycott motion is an assault on academic freedom," said Jeremy Newmark, the chief executive of Britain's Jewish leadership council. "While the vast majority of academics do not support a boycott, the decision damages the credibility of British academia as a whole."
UCU leader Sally Hunt said she doubted delegates' enthusiasm for cutting of European Union funding of Israeli universities was representative of feeling among the UCU's wider 120,000 membership; but the neo-leftist victory was another straw in the wind, showing the hard left spreading out from anti-racism and a degree of anti-male bias (to keep feminists sweet) to confrontation with Evangelicals, the Roman Catholic Church and Russia over their `homophobia' and with the left's old friends, the Jews, over `Israeli imperialistic warmongering.' A sharp protest was issued by Israel to the British Foreign Office (Haaretz, 2 vi).
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
RACE REALISM GROWS -- A LITTLE
Voters in a Texas suburb became the first in the U.S.A. to approve a law aimed at prohibiting landlords from renting property to illegal immigrants (Daily Telegraph, 15 v). The controversial ban was approved by 4,058 to 1,941 votes in Farmers Branch, a suburb of 28,500 people just outside Dallas.
In Britain, a Government minister, herself an immigrant Jewess born in Egypt, said families already resident this country had more right to social housing than new migrants (Daily Telegraph, 21 v). Margaret Hodge, who was at the Department of Trade and Industry, as well as being M.P. for Barking where the British National Party had won 11 council seats in 2006, shocked lefties by saying that the "legitimate sense of entitlement" of poor settled families should override the needs of recent arrivals.
For her trouble, Mrs Hodge was accused by the Guardian (22 v) of being "a gung-ho commando, scrambling nonchalantly on to a patch of ground laced with landmines" by Not-the-Conservative leader Daft Dave Cameron of dabbling in "rumour and inaccuracy" (Sun, 22 v) and by Telegraph columnist Andrew O'Hagan of being "shameful". Cameron had just upset followers by a clumsy and unheralded announcement that he would not build more grammar schools, calling supporters "delusional" and seemed determined to go for the jackpot of converting the Tories to being happy-clappy LibDems.
(Within days, `Two Brains' Willetts was announcing that, though Conservatives would not allow schools to select pupils by ability, they would be encouraging selection by race - so as to increase the percentage of Blacks and Srindopakeshis in largely-White schools..) For its part, the Sunday Quislingraph got round to urging that Mrs Hodge's concerns deserved discussion - which the newspaper had signally failed to provide in the ten years since Rev. Bliar flung Britain's borders open in 1997.
FINGER LENGTH REALISM
Having a relatively long ring finger, as compared to index finger, was found by a Bath university psychologist to be linked positively to the (relatively masculine) trait of numerical ability and negatively to the (relatively feminine) trait of verbal ability (Guardian, 23 v). This confirmation of a biological sex difference must doubtless have shocked leftist Bath Principal Breakwell (see above); but at least it would not have shocked bisexual columnist Becky Gardner who had once complained that I had introduced her in E.U. lectures as far back as 1982 to longer ring fingers being linked with maleness, aggression and butch lesbianism (Guardian, 31 iii 2000). {Those were the days! - When E.U. was 20 years ahead of the Grauniad!} At the same time, a study from Warwick University reported that the rank order for navigational skill was in line with degree of masculinity: hetero males came top, followed by yags, lezzies and hetero females (Daily Telegraph, 25 v).
FEMINIST ICON WAS A SEX-MAD REAL-TIME NAZI
Around 1965, the sexually voracious and Hitler-mad photographer and director, Leni Riefenstahl (who had become known by 1935 as `the crevasse of the Third Reich' for her promiscuity but was later adopted as a feminist icon), 63, took a 23-year-old lover - the affair apparently lasting into Leni's 70s. This blow to feminist admirers was administered by the Sunday Telegraph (Seven), 20 v, reviewing a new book (by Stephen Bach) which left no doubt as to Leni's appetite for the Fuehrer and as to Leni's post-1945 lying so as to ingratiate herself with femininnies as just a modern career woman who had known nothing of Hitler's plans. {Leni had certainly been an inventive director, preparing German maidens for meeting the Fuehrer by showing them pictures of minimally clad soldier hunks, scenes with dogs on heat, and scenes of water sprays with naked soldiers wrestling -- hence the girls appearing supremely radiant and frankly ready to f*ck at the drop of a hat when brought into Hitler's presence.}
BRAIN SIZE LINKED TO INTELLIGENCE
In line with London School claims going back more than a century,* anthropological and psychological researchers who had worked together at Duke University reported that animal species having larger brains and cortices did better on measures of `domain-general cognitive ability' (evolutionary psychologists' euphemism for problem-solving ability at novel tasks, aka general intelligence or the g factor) (EurekAlert!, 18 v; Brain, Behavior & Evolution, v 2007). Controlling for body size did not improve the good degree of linkage found, suggesting to lead researchers Robert Deaner (Grand Valley State University in Allendale Michigan) and Carel van Schaik (Zurich University) that larger species of animals might tend to have more use for intelligence, both because they are more able to influence their environments and because they live longer.
* Several reports linking race, brain size estimates and intelligence appeared in Galton's lifetime. (The Marxist Stephen Jay Gould's criticisms of these reports were answered by Phil Rushton in his 1994 Race,Evolution & Behavior.) By 2000, MRI measures of brain size were known to correlate around .40 with individual IQ.
INQUISITION BY PSYCHOLOGY
Just ten years after psychologists had demanded I be sacked and gave up their days rehearsing their `evidence' and producing it for the LUniversity of Edinburgh's Tribunal (which duly brought in five verdicts against me out of nine possible, enough to fire me in the summer of 2007), psychologists at London Metropolitan University told journalists they were well underway with their next challenge - to diagnose covert racism and supply the results to employers who might otherwise commit the sin of employing someone capable of prejudice and discrimination (FirstPost, v). While Queen Elizabeth I had famously ruled out `making windows into men's souls,' there was to be no such restraint in the days of Queen Elizabeth II.
Since the left normally deemed virtually all Whites, at least, to be to some degree `racist,' psychologists, if they played their cards right, were likely to find themselves eventually dominating most of the employment market. And how convenient it would be if such information about covert racism were displayed on the compulsory identity cards that Rev. Bliar and his NuLabour fascists were determined to bring in!
RACE REALISM - THE CASE OF BLACK LUNACY
""Researchers removed the ethnicity of patients from their medical notes and asked a doctor to assess them. What they found was that psychosis was still diagnosed nine times more often in Black people from the Caribbean -- almost exactly the same rate as found for Blacks within the mental health services." - BBC2 (Newsnight), 21 v, reporting new research from London's Maudsley Hospital.
FRANCE TO TACKLE IMMIGRATION..
New measures to curb immigration and to encourage `voluntary return' of quite a few of France's six million legal + illegal immigrants were announced by President Sarkozy's newly appointed Minister for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Co-Development, Brice Hortefeux (49, and a confidant and `first lieutenant' to Sarkozy) (Der Spiegel, 24 v).
1. New immigrants (commonly relatives or arranged wives of North Africans already in the country would be required to have learned French, to have `professional skills' and to prove that the family hosting them in France was able to support them.
2. Paris would provide each family (including two children) with a nest egg of _6,000 ($8,000, œ4,070) when they went back to their country of origin. A similar scheme, which was introduced in 2005 and 2006, had been taken up by around 3,000 families. Hortefeux pointed out the scheme would be of value in assisting economic development in countries to which the returnees were repatriated.
3. Hortefeux insisted that there were no plans for any mass legalization of the estimated 200,000 to 400,000 illegal immigrants in France.
4. He promised to deport at least 25,000 illegal aliens by the end of 2007. France had already announced it would not grant work permits to illegal immigrants given `amnesties' in Germany and Spain. Hortefeux believed he could call on some of the œ400M fund held by the European Unit so as to encourage voluntary return from cities of Europe which had suffered disproportionately from immigration.
Nicolas Sarkozy had said France was "exasperated by uncontrolled immigration" and was at risk of a "social explosion" unless the issue was firmly addressed. France had also begun tackling the West's problem of depressed and dysgenic breeding by introducing several family-friendly measures, including 0% rates of income tax and lengthy state-funded employment leave for families producing three or more children (Macleans, 24 v).
Just how M. Hortefeux proposed to stop `voluntary returnees' from re-entering France (or other E.U. counties) was not clear; and the eugenic measures seemed unlikely to encourage the key feature of marriage and childbirth by female university students. Nor was there any sign of the mass deportation of foreign-born criminals, disabled athletes and proven unemployables that France needed, and the conscription of native-born riff-raff into a Humanitarian Army for Africa in which they could fight with the Dark Continent's many Marxite mass murderers. But at least, just possibly, French politicians were making a start!...
Meanwhile, Muslims in Australia began caterwauling that a new `citizenship test' brought in by the Oz government contained questions about Judaeo-Christian values (Daily Telegraph, Surry, Oz, 23 v). In Britain, the government began running courses for kids in Muslim madrassas aimed to make them believe that murder of fellow British citizens was not supported by the Koran (Associated Press, 23 v)..
SARKOZY - THE TASK AHEAD
In the few days after President Sarkozy's election on 6th May, some 2,000 cars were burned out in France and, after campus clashes at Paris I `university' and on Paris streets, police arrested hundreds of students (said by some observers of the hooded rioters to be `sandniggers' and `Muzzies' who would struggle to construct a French sentence). Student leaders were upset by the plans of the new Higher Education Minister, Francois Goulard, to give France's miserable universities* autonomy to hire and fire staff, to expel weak students, to seek corporate funding and encourage students themselves to seek outside funding and to introduce more vocational courses. By 11th May, dozens of stiff custodial sentences had been dished out by courts all over France, even to `students' without criminal records.
* The 80 French universities took without selection the 1.5 million `students' who failed to get into the grandes ‚coles [for business, administration, civil engineering, research, the higher-ranking military etc.] which took the `cream' 6% of higher-education students. Even the famous Sorbonne was penniless and run-down after decades of egalitarianism within France's `university' system. 45% of its students would drop out in their first year of (minimally supervised) study (consisting almost wholly of attendance at lectures). As many as 10 percent of students on French universtiy rolls would never see the inside of a lecture hall, having enrolled to get free health benefits and student discounts on everything from train travel to cinema tickets. (For more, see North County Times, 24 v.)
BRITAIN'S LEFTIST ACADEMICS EXPOSED
Having failed to manage the slightest defence of free speech over the first year of its establishment, Britain's University and College Union found its Muslie-loving leftists had attracted international attention and criticism (Times Higher, 25 v). As the UCU prepared to debate a motion to ban all academic contact with Israel, Nobelist Steven Weinberg (Jewish, and himself claiming to be on the left) publicly cancelled a lecture he was to have given to fellow-physicists in the University of London, complaining of the anti-Semitism which he found to be creeping into British academic life {with the advanced crawlers being in the Socialist Workers Party and its front organizations like `Anti-Nazi League,' `Unite Against Fascism' and `Stop the War'}.
Voters in a Texas suburb became the first in the U.S.A. to approve a law aimed at prohibiting landlords from renting property to illegal immigrants (Daily Telegraph, 15 v). The controversial ban was approved by 4,058 to 1,941 votes in Farmers Branch, a suburb of 28,500 people just outside Dallas.
In Britain, a Government minister, herself an immigrant Jewess born in Egypt, said families already resident this country had more right to social housing than new migrants (Daily Telegraph, 21 v). Margaret Hodge, who was at the Department of Trade and Industry, as well as being M.P. for Barking where the British National Party had won 11 council seats in 2006, shocked lefties by saying that the "legitimate sense of entitlement" of poor settled families should override the needs of recent arrivals.
For her trouble, Mrs Hodge was accused by the Guardian (22 v) of being "a gung-ho commando, scrambling nonchalantly on to a patch of ground laced with landmines" by Not-the-Conservative leader Daft Dave Cameron of dabbling in "rumour and inaccuracy" (Sun, 22 v) and by Telegraph columnist Andrew O'Hagan of being "shameful". Cameron had just upset followers by a clumsy and unheralded announcement that he would not build more grammar schools, calling supporters "delusional" and seemed determined to go for the jackpot of converting the Tories to being happy-clappy LibDems.
(Within days, `Two Brains' Willetts was announcing that, though Conservatives would not allow schools to select pupils by ability, they would be encouraging selection by race - so as to increase the percentage of Blacks and Srindopakeshis in largely-White schools..) For its part, the Sunday Quislingraph got round to urging that Mrs Hodge's concerns deserved discussion - which the newspaper had signally failed to provide in the ten years since Rev. Bliar flung Britain's borders open in 1997.
FINGER LENGTH REALISM
Having a relatively long ring finger, as compared to index finger, was found by a Bath university psychologist to be linked positively to the (relatively masculine) trait of numerical ability and negatively to the (relatively feminine) trait of verbal ability (Guardian, 23 v). This confirmation of a biological sex difference must doubtless have shocked leftist Bath Principal Breakwell (see above); but at least it would not have shocked bisexual columnist Becky Gardner who had once complained that I had introduced her in E.U. lectures as far back as 1982 to longer ring fingers being linked with maleness, aggression and butch lesbianism (Guardian, 31 iii 2000). {Those were the days! - When E.U. was 20 years ahead of the Grauniad!} At the same time, a study from Warwick University reported that the rank order for navigational skill was in line with degree of masculinity: hetero males came top, followed by yags, lezzies and hetero females (Daily Telegraph, 25 v).
FEMINIST ICON WAS A SEX-MAD REAL-TIME NAZI
Around 1965, the sexually voracious and Hitler-mad photographer and director, Leni Riefenstahl (who had become known by 1935 as `the crevasse of the Third Reich' for her promiscuity but was later adopted as a feminist icon), 63, took a 23-year-old lover - the affair apparently lasting into Leni's 70s. This blow to feminist admirers was administered by the Sunday Telegraph (Seven), 20 v, reviewing a new book (by Stephen Bach) which left no doubt as to Leni's appetite for the Fuehrer and as to Leni's post-1945 lying so as to ingratiate herself with femininnies as just a modern career woman who had known nothing of Hitler's plans. {Leni had certainly been an inventive director, preparing German maidens for meeting the Fuehrer by showing them pictures of minimally clad soldier hunks, scenes with dogs on heat, and scenes of water sprays with naked soldiers wrestling -- hence the girls appearing supremely radiant and frankly ready to f*ck at the drop of a hat when brought into Hitler's presence.}
BRAIN SIZE LINKED TO INTELLIGENCE
In line with London School claims going back more than a century,* anthropological and psychological researchers who had worked together at Duke University reported that animal species having larger brains and cortices did better on measures of `domain-general cognitive ability' (evolutionary psychologists' euphemism for problem-solving ability at novel tasks, aka general intelligence or the g factor) (EurekAlert!, 18 v; Brain, Behavior & Evolution, v 2007). Controlling for body size did not improve the good degree of linkage found, suggesting to lead researchers Robert Deaner (Grand Valley State University in Allendale Michigan) and Carel van Schaik (Zurich University) that larger species of animals might tend to have more use for intelligence, both because they are more able to influence their environments and because they live longer.
* Several reports linking race, brain size estimates and intelligence appeared in Galton's lifetime. (The Marxist Stephen Jay Gould's criticisms of these reports were answered by Phil Rushton in his 1994 Race,Evolution & Behavior.) By 2000, MRI measures of brain size were known to correlate around .40 with individual IQ.
INQUISITION BY PSYCHOLOGY
Just ten years after psychologists had demanded I be sacked and gave up their days rehearsing their `evidence' and producing it for the LUniversity of Edinburgh's Tribunal (which duly brought in five verdicts against me out of nine possible, enough to fire me in the summer of 2007), psychologists at London Metropolitan University told journalists they were well underway with their next challenge - to diagnose covert racism and supply the results to employers who might otherwise commit the sin of employing someone capable of prejudice and discrimination (FirstPost, v). While Queen Elizabeth I had famously ruled out `making windows into men's souls,' there was to be no such restraint in the days of Queen Elizabeth II.
Since the left normally deemed virtually all Whites, at least, to be to some degree `racist,' psychologists, if they played their cards right, were likely to find themselves eventually dominating most of the employment market. And how convenient it would be if such information about covert racism were displayed on the compulsory identity cards that Rev. Bliar and his NuLabour fascists were determined to bring in!
RACE REALISM - THE CASE OF BLACK LUNACY
""Researchers removed the ethnicity of patients from their medical notes and asked a doctor to assess them. What they found was that psychosis was still diagnosed nine times more often in Black people from the Caribbean -- almost exactly the same rate as found for Blacks within the mental health services." - BBC2 (Newsnight), 21 v, reporting new research from London's Maudsley Hospital.
FRANCE TO TACKLE IMMIGRATION..
New measures to curb immigration and to encourage `voluntary return' of quite a few of France's six million legal + illegal immigrants were announced by President Sarkozy's newly appointed Minister for Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Co-Development, Brice Hortefeux (49, and a confidant and `first lieutenant' to Sarkozy) (Der Spiegel, 24 v).
1. New immigrants (commonly relatives or arranged wives of North Africans already in the country would be required to have learned French, to have `professional skills' and to prove that the family hosting them in France was able to support them.
2. Paris would provide each family (including two children) with a nest egg of _6,000 ($8,000, œ4,070) when they went back to their country of origin. A similar scheme, which was introduced in 2005 and 2006, had been taken up by around 3,000 families. Hortefeux pointed out the scheme would be of value in assisting economic development in countries to which the returnees were repatriated.
3. Hortefeux insisted that there were no plans for any mass legalization of the estimated 200,000 to 400,000 illegal immigrants in France.
4. He promised to deport at least 25,000 illegal aliens by the end of 2007. France had already announced it would not grant work permits to illegal immigrants given `amnesties' in Germany and Spain. Hortefeux believed he could call on some of the œ400M fund held by the European Unit so as to encourage voluntary return from cities of Europe which had suffered disproportionately from immigration.
Nicolas Sarkozy had said France was "exasperated by uncontrolled immigration" and was at risk of a "social explosion" unless the issue was firmly addressed. France had also begun tackling the West's problem of depressed and dysgenic breeding by introducing several family-friendly measures, including 0% rates of income tax and lengthy state-funded employment leave for families producing three or more children (Macleans, 24 v).
Just how M. Hortefeux proposed to stop `voluntary returnees' from re-entering France (or other E.U. counties) was not clear; and the eugenic measures seemed unlikely to encourage the key feature of marriage and childbirth by female university students. Nor was there any sign of the mass deportation of foreign-born criminals, disabled athletes and proven unemployables that France needed, and the conscription of native-born riff-raff into a Humanitarian Army for Africa in which they could fight with the Dark Continent's many Marxite mass murderers. But at least, just possibly, French politicians were making a start!...
Meanwhile, Muslims in Australia began caterwauling that a new `citizenship test' brought in by the Oz government contained questions about Judaeo-Christian values (Daily Telegraph, Surry, Oz, 23 v). In Britain, the government began running courses for kids in Muslim madrassas aimed to make them believe that murder of fellow British citizens was not supported by the Koran (Associated Press, 23 v)..
SARKOZY - THE TASK AHEAD
In the few days after President Sarkozy's election on 6th May, some 2,000 cars were burned out in France and, after campus clashes at Paris I `university' and on Paris streets, police arrested hundreds of students (said by some observers of the hooded rioters to be `sandniggers' and `Muzzies' who would struggle to construct a French sentence). Student leaders were upset by the plans of the new Higher Education Minister, Francois Goulard, to give France's miserable universities* autonomy to hire and fire staff, to expel weak students, to seek corporate funding and encourage students themselves to seek outside funding and to introduce more vocational courses. By 11th May, dozens of stiff custodial sentences had been dished out by courts all over France, even to `students' without criminal records.
* The 80 French universities took without selection the 1.5 million `students' who failed to get into the grandes ‚coles [for business, administration, civil engineering, research, the higher-ranking military etc.] which took the `cream' 6% of higher-education students. Even the famous Sorbonne was penniless and run-down after decades of egalitarianism within France's `university' system. 45% of its students would drop out in their first year of (minimally supervised) study (consisting almost wholly of attendance at lectures). As many as 10 percent of students on French universtiy rolls would never see the inside of a lecture hall, having enrolled to get free health benefits and student discounts on everything from train travel to cinema tickets. (For more, see North County Times, 24 v.)
BRITAIN'S LEFTIST ACADEMICS EXPOSED
Having failed to manage the slightest defence of free speech over the first year of its establishment, Britain's University and College Union found its Muslie-loving leftists had attracted international attention and criticism (Times Higher, 25 v). As the UCU prepared to debate a motion to ban all academic contact with Israel, Nobelist Steven Weinberg (Jewish, and himself claiming to be on the left) publicly cancelled a lecture he was to have given to fellow-physicists in the University of London, complaining of the anti-Semitism which he found to be creeping into British academic life {with the advanced crawlers being in the Socialist Workers Party and its front organizations like `Anti-Nazi League,' `Unite Against Fascism' and `Stop the War'}.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
GENES FOR IQ FOUND
Inherited variations in two genes were reported to a neurology conference in Boston, USA, to be linked with reasoning, memory and brain volume (NewScientist.com, 12 v). One of the genes was also found to be involved in Alzheimer's disease, raising the possibility that other genes with a role in healthy people may also be implicated in diseases of old age.
Sudha Seshadri at Boston University and her colleagues assessed the cognitive abilities of 705 healthy adults with standard tests and used MRI scans to measure the volume of their brains. The researchers also scanned 100,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms -- small variations in the genome sequence -- in participants' DNA for links to mental performance. The strongest links were in the genes SORL, involved in abstract reasoning and the processing of amyloid protein in Alzheimer's disease, and CDH4, which seemed to predict brain volume.
Seshadri, a 39-year-old medical doctor, was recorded by the American Academy of Neurology as an assistant professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and co-director of medical education for the residency program and an investigator at the Framingham Heart Study. She had completed her MBBS from the Christian Medical College, Madras University, and her MD in Internal Medicine and DM in Neurology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
{That Dr Seshadri's work had attracted no attention in the rest of the Western media in the five days after the short note in New Scientist was presumably a triumph of a kind for PeeCee -- cf. the suppression, after brief appearances in 2006, of the genetic and racial theorizing of Professor Armand Leroi (Imperial College London) and Dr Satoshi Kanazawa (London School of Economics).}
GOVT TOADY ADMITS PEECEE GOES TOO FAR
A senior Government adviser, Prof. Ted Cantle, having seats on many quangos, admitted that Britan's race relations laws were inhibiting mature discussion of the problems of mass third-world low-IQ immigration - and of the growing physical segregation to be found among Britain's ethnic groups despite a generation of diversity-worshipping multiculturalism (Daily Mail, 7 v).
LONDON SCHOOL TRAVAILS SUMMARIZED
The result of hour-length interviews given to young New Statesman writer Matt Kennard by the academics Richard Lynn, Phil Rushton, Donald Templer, Paul Irwing, Frank Ellis, Geoffrey Sampson and myself turned out to have been a handy-enough, but elementary and largely leftist summary of luniversity censoriousness of the past ten years in Leeds Student (20 iv) - culminating in the suggestion that universities should somehow `regulate' race research so as to avoid unfortunate suggestions that they don't back free speech.
{One could easily see the honorary degrees being busily prepared for Matthew and his neo-Stalinist solution to the universities' ongoing dilemma! But the New Statesman, itself had evidently turned the article down, apparently fearing to remind its readers of the bare bones of UK luniversities' censoriousness even when heavily draped in left-wing `spin.'}
ISLAMOFASCISTS SPURN DEMOCRACY
A group that had claimed links to al Qaeda vowed to launch bloody attacks in Paris to punish France for electing "Zionist" Nicolas Sarkozy, according to a Web posting. "After you ... chose Zionist crusader Sarkozy to lead you, we of the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades warn you that there will be a bloody jihadist campaign in the coming days ... and a fierce war in the heart of Sarkozy's capital," the group said in an Internet statement (Reuters, 15 v, reporting from Dubai).
NUTORIES `ABANDON ACADEMIC SELECTION'
In a major new act of re-branding of his party, Daft Dave Cameron and extra-idiotic sidekick Dave `Two Brains' Willetts announced the Not-the-Conservative-Party would no longer try to add to the nation's already pathetic stock of 164 grammar schools, themselves the (invariably successful) remnants of a generation of envious egalitarian chatter. Although Cameron himself explained plainly to the BBC that he actually wanted to see more streaming within schools (the policy advocated in The g Factor), he was gleefully taken by the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation to have announced "the end of academic selection" - as `liberal'-lefties had wanted for forty years. Ructions within his wretched spaced-out `party' loomed which only a careful reading of Chapter 4 of The g Factor could resolve.
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Some history.
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Inherited variations in two genes were reported to a neurology conference in Boston, USA, to be linked with reasoning, memory and brain volume (NewScientist.com, 12 v). One of the genes was also found to be involved in Alzheimer's disease, raising the possibility that other genes with a role in healthy people may also be implicated in diseases of old age.
Sudha Seshadri at Boston University and her colleagues assessed the cognitive abilities of 705 healthy adults with standard tests and used MRI scans to measure the volume of their brains. The researchers also scanned 100,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms -- small variations in the genome sequence -- in participants' DNA for links to mental performance. The strongest links were in the genes SORL, involved in abstract reasoning and the processing of amyloid protein in Alzheimer's disease, and CDH4, which seemed to predict brain volume.
Seshadri, a 39-year-old medical doctor, was recorded by the American Academy of Neurology as an assistant professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and co-director of medical education for the residency program and an investigator at the Framingham Heart Study. She had completed her MBBS from the Christian Medical College, Madras University, and her MD in Internal Medicine and DM in Neurology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
{That Dr Seshadri's work had attracted no attention in the rest of the Western media in the five days after the short note in New Scientist was presumably a triumph of a kind for PeeCee -- cf. the suppression, after brief appearances in 2006, of the genetic and racial theorizing of Professor Armand Leroi (Imperial College London) and Dr Satoshi Kanazawa (London School of Economics).}
GOVT TOADY ADMITS PEECEE GOES TOO FAR
A senior Government adviser, Prof. Ted Cantle, having seats on many quangos, admitted that Britan's race relations laws were inhibiting mature discussion of the problems of mass third-world low-IQ immigration - and of the growing physical segregation to be found among Britain's ethnic groups despite a generation of diversity-worshipping multiculturalism (Daily Mail, 7 v).
LONDON SCHOOL TRAVAILS SUMMARIZED
The result of hour-length interviews given to young New Statesman writer Matt Kennard by the academics Richard Lynn, Phil Rushton, Donald Templer, Paul Irwing, Frank Ellis, Geoffrey Sampson and myself turned out to have been a handy-enough, but elementary and largely leftist summary of luniversity censoriousness of the past ten years in Leeds Student (20 iv) - culminating in the suggestion that universities should somehow `regulate' race research so as to avoid unfortunate suggestions that they don't back free speech.
{One could easily see the honorary degrees being busily prepared for Matthew and his neo-Stalinist solution to the universities' ongoing dilemma! But the New Statesman, itself had evidently turned the article down, apparently fearing to remind its readers of the bare bones of UK luniversities' censoriousness even when heavily draped in left-wing `spin.'}
ISLAMOFASCISTS SPURN DEMOCRACY
A group that had claimed links to al Qaeda vowed to launch bloody attacks in Paris to punish France for electing "Zionist" Nicolas Sarkozy, according to a Web posting. "After you ... chose Zionist crusader Sarkozy to lead you, we of the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades warn you that there will be a bloody jihadist campaign in the coming days ... and a fierce war in the heart of Sarkozy's capital," the group said in an Internet statement (Reuters, 15 v, reporting from Dubai).
NUTORIES `ABANDON ACADEMIC SELECTION'
In a major new act of re-branding of his party, Daft Dave Cameron and extra-idiotic sidekick Dave `Two Brains' Willetts announced the Not-the-Conservative-Party would no longer try to add to the nation's already pathetic stock of 164 grammar schools, themselves the (invariably successful) remnants of a generation of envious egalitarian chatter. Although Cameron himself explained plainly to the BBC that he actually wanted to see more streaming within schools (the policy advocated in The g Factor), he was gleefully taken by the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation to have announced "the end of academic selection" - as `liberal'-lefties had wanted for forty years. Ructions within his wretched spaced-out `party' loomed which only a careful reading of Chapter 4 of The g Factor could resolve.
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Comments? Email Chris Brand.
Some history.
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