"In 1928, as the United States headed toward the Wall Street crash, Josef Stalin unveiled a "great breakthrough," the first five-year plan for making the Soviet Union supremely modern at any cost. Not only was agriculture to be collectivized, nature itself was to be transformed by Soviet science.
Unfortunately, the science in question was false. Its champion, a self-taught geneticist by the name of Trofim Lysenko, is now a byword for scientific fraud. His archrival, [Nikolai Vavilov,] the subject of Peter Pringle's new book, is a less well-known figure who might have saved the Soviet Union but instead was sacrificed on the altar of communist ideology."
CRUSTY JIM FLYNN SLAMS AFRO-AMERICAN YOUF CULCHA
To widespread neglect, the discoverer of the 20th-century IQ-test-score-rise, jaunty ethnic-Eirish Prof. Jim Flynn blamed Blecks' across-the-board socio-economic failures on the only interesting thing about them, their youth culture of sex, violence, misogyny and disrespec' (New Scientist, 3 ix) - Jim little thinking to ask whether this US/UK Black culture was not simply an understandable reaction to growing up stupid yet patronized in a successful White society (by contrast, African Blacks just join armies and rape and pillage with impunity, having no need to spend their time merely rappin' about such possibilities).
RACE REALISTS RE-SURFACE
After two months of media suppression, anti-PeeCee heroes Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle (seeking asylum in the USA after being found guilty of `race hate speech,' esp. anti-Semitism, and going on the run to Los Angeles - see July) resurfaced, submitting an Appeal to Leeds Crown Court (Selby Times [the newspaper for Sheppard's home town in Yorkshire], 18 ix).
An account of the case and of the shockingly tyrannical state of English law re race hate speech, together with addresses to which financial contributions for The Heretical Two could be sent, was provided at http://hereticaltwo.nfshost.com/. The Sheppard website at www.heretical.com consisted of 750 pages and over 2 million words, being a collection of articles and excerpts covering a wide range of topics. Just twelve web pages had been the subject of criminal charges.
OLD COMMIE GOES TO EARTH re RACE
As weeks went by without glitterati Cambridge intellectual George Steiner clarifying his off-the-cuff race realism and thus improving on the cowardice of Nobelist James Watson (see above for both oldies), a nice reminder of Steiner's former Soviet sympathies appeared (National Review, 29 ix), perhaps explaining his embarrassment:
"Reviewing The Gulag Archipelago in The New Yorker in 1974, George Steiner wrote that "to infer that the Soviet terror is as hideous as Hitlerism is not only a brutal oversimplification but a moral indecency," revealing with those words the vast blind spot of Western Left intellectuals.
Despite Solzhenitsyn, that blind spot continues. As [Tim] Tzouliadis notes [The Forsaken], it has enabled the story of what happened to the Americans who sought work in Soviet Russia to disappear down the memory hole. And since so many continue to believe that the Soviet repression was hardly comparable to that of the Nazis, many will deny that in the Soviet Union, as the author concludes, its defining story "was the murder of millions of innocent citizens by the state."
PIONEER COP-OUT
Asked by a supporter to report on the current state of the Pioneer Foundation, I was shocked to discover no mention of The g Factor at the PF website and wrote as follows:
"..for the Pioneers to have failed to support me and now, it turns out, to decline even to *mention* my TgF, that takes some doing. Of course, Phil R. probably never liked my venturing a little criticism of his Race, Evolution & Behavior (review attached). But really! If only Hans Eysenck had had enough authority and gumption to bang heads together!? Think of it: academic race realism, if heard from a unified chorus of support for TgF, could have prevented sub-prime lending, the credit crunch and the probably coming American race war! -- Ah well, at least the neglect of the London School means we're all able to enjoy our own chosen stocks and shares in peace without being firebombed....
Best, -- Chris."
FANTASIST REBUKED
Authoress and single mum (as was) J.K.Rowling's loopy donation of œ1M (of her œ600M fortune) to Labour, because of that party's devotion to single-parent families, was promptly and properly ridiculed in the Sun by Fergus Shanahan (23 ix) - though FS should have mentioned that single-parenting works O.K. in the (increasingly rare) case where the mother and baby are of high IQ.
STREAMING DEFENDED
A fine case for educational streaming (including practical education and apprenticeships for dumbos) was made in The Cornell Daily Sun by Katie Engelhart (18 ix). I replied encouragingly, referring Katie to Chapter 4 of TgF (published 24 ix).
DEMOCRATS STOKE U.S. RACE WAR AS BANKS CRASH FROM POLITICIAN-DEMANDED UNSECURED LENDING TO MINORITIES AS PART OF FORCED MULTICULTURALISM
As politicians in Washington wrestled to prevent meltdown of America's banks, while avoiding blaming the politicians who had caused bankers to over-lend to `sub-prime' Blacks, Hispanics and Mexican illegals* and thus over-stimulated house prices, an astonishingly inflammatory attack on the U.S. Republicans' vice-presidential nominee was reported by CNN (25 ix):
"Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience of Jewish Democrats that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because "anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks." "If Sarah Palin isn't enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention," Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida said at a panel about the shared agenda of Jewish and African-American Democrats."
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{That such far-out sentiments should surface was not surprising to those who knew that both `community organizer' Osambo and `feminist' Hitlery, the leaders of the 2008 Democrats, both drew their inspiration from Chicago Jewish left-loon agitator Saul Alinsky (1909-71) (American Thinker, 26 ix).}
* In 2005, the Washington Post had noted: "Hispanics, the nation's fastest-growing major ethnic or racial group, have been courted aggressively by real estate agents, mortgage brokers and programs for first-time buyers that offer help with closing costs. Ads proclaim: "Sin verificacion de ingresos! Sin verificacion de documento!"-which loosely translates as, `Income tax forms are not required, nor are immigration papers.'"
In 2008, TownHall recorded (24 ix): "Thanks to lax Bush administration-approved policies allowing illegal aliens to use "matricula consular cards" and taxpayer identification numbers to open bank accounts, more forms of mortgage fraud have burgeoned. Moneylenders still have no access to a verification system to check Social Security numbers before approving loans."
An AmRen correspondent wrote: "This financial meltdown had its origins in a push to give home loans to people who had no down payments, bad credit, and an inability or unwillingness to pay. Considerable effort has been expended by many experts laying out the precise chronology of just how this debacle escalated, and you've got to understand that without the pressure applied by Clinton and others, including Reno, Barney Frank, Andrew Cuomo, et al, there would be no sub-prime mortgages to package and sell as investments. Only the leftist radicals are denying this, but they too will shut up once the diversity scheme has been exposed further."
Another AmRen correspondent said: "Among national-profile politicians, Jack Kemp (R) and Barney Frank (D) have been the biggest villains in all this. Each for a good two decades or more, they relentlessly pushed programs to promote "affordable" housing - that is, homes carrying low-money-down financing designed to make homeowners out of people with limited or poor credit. Guess what? Blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately represented among these homebuyers."
Unsurprisingly, the Jewish Frank, Congressman for Boston, was foremost amongst those arguing for total nationalization of the US banks, with no penalties for wankers who had so enthusiastically gone along with peecee-multiculturalist stipulations to lend to `sub-primes.' (The near-sighted Kemp had grown up in the 95% Jewish community of West Los Angeles and had many Jewish sympathies - though his parents had sent him to the Church of Christ Scientist.)
Another AmRen correspondent asked: "If the government takes on all the bad loans; will it then handle them in the affirmative action manner? Minority loans will be forgiven, but whites will pay the full amount at a greatly increased interest rate to make up the difference. White people that pay their bills will be told to pay more in fees, interest and taxes or what??? These may be dumb questions; but based on government actions over the last 50 years; I cannot help but wonder."
Another: "The Clintonistas were the the source, but it was clearly unqualified individual minorities who were the willing recipients. No one forced them to sign on the dotted line. No one forced them to commit to a mortgage. They viewed mortgage loans as just one more type of entitlement and in a very real sense there were entitlements. Which brings me to [the] question of who will pay for these entitlements. [Certainly], it is overwhelmingly whites who will pay and they will pay in many different forms. They will pay by being hit with even higher state and federal taxes. They will pay by seeing their tax deferred savings accounts, mostly in the form of various mutual funds, loose value as the stocks that they represent take a dive, and they will also pay because the economic downturn which the sub-prime mortgage debacle is causing and will worsen will decrease their standard of living and possibly leave them unemployed with no savings but a social security check made out in nearly worthless dollars. Yet one more example of just how much of a wonderful thing our state sponsored "diversity" really is!"
I thus wrote to the Torygraph as follows:
To: The Editor; Daily Telegraph; London
From: Mr C. R. Brand; Edinburgh EH8 9PP
27 ix 2008
Dear Editor,
In setting out the steps from 'toxic mortgages' to the likely part-nationalization of U.S. banking (Daily Telegraph, 27th September, pp.4-5) you arguably omitted one step. 'The first black President of the U.S.A.," as Bill Clinton called himself, had regulated tough penalties for banks that failed to provide 'affordable homes' for minorities;* President George W. Bush continued this encouragement of 'sub-prime mortgages' and even extended such help for people with no incomes, jobs or assets ('NINJAS') to Mexican illegal immigrants.** It was this which yielded the steady inflation of house prices on which both financiers and mortgagees came to gamble; but the sorry circumstances and lifestyles of the new lenders meant that many had to sell. The 2007/8 slump in the housing market was simply the eventual correction for the enforcement of multicultural optimism by politicians.
I am yours truly, -- Chris Brand.
* See Investor's Business Daily, 15 ix 2008. As your correspondent Colin Broughton noted (27th September, p.21), discrimatory (i.e. discriminating) lending according to race, marital status or religion was banned by Clinton's Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
** In 2008, TownHall recorded (24 ix): "Thanks to lax Bush administration-approved policies allowing illegal aliens to use "matricula consular cards" and taxpayer identification numbers to open bank accounts, more forms of mortgage fraud have burgeoned. Moneylenders still have no access to a verification system to check Social Security numbers before approving loans." Between them, the Clinton and Bush administrations increased U.S. home ownership (50% of it mortgageeship) by 5%.
On the Telegraph's website (27 ix), correspondent Ian Moss concurred with Colin Broughton: "You don't think the banks would lend to wastrels willingly, do you? The banks were forced to lend to anyone with a pulse or face murdering fines and jail time. The pathetic childish Dumobrats and their welfare stupidities are always the cause of economic rot...Stealing from people who earn and handing to those who didn't is a criminal act which makes the Dumobrats a mafia gang...albeit a stupid one."
TORY OUTSQUEAKER
A Conservative shadow minister spoke out a fraction on immigration: multiculturalism in the UK had left a "terrible" legacy, creating a vacuum that has been filled by extremists from across the political spectrum, the shadow home secretary, Dominic Grieve, warned. In an interview with the Guardian (27 ix) on the eve of the Conservative party conference, Grieve said that "long-term inhabitants" had been left fearful, while second- and third- generation immigrants felt alienated and unsure what British values were.