SPAIN

Spain's Prime Minister till 2004 (when voted out after the Mosies' bombing of Madrid), Jos‚ Maria Azn r, declared multiculturalism was finished and that Mosies would have to salute the flag and sing the national anthem if they wished to stay in Western countries (Spectator, 15 vii).


SUN COMES ROUND

Like this Diary (January, 2005), the Sun newspaper began calling for Britain to opt out of the European Convention on Human Rights - so as to be able to deport Muslim ravers living here on benefits and blaming Britain for the London 7/7 bombs that killed 56 (20 vii). The newspaper also joined the Board of Deputies of British Jews (now coming round to oppose multiculturalism after a generation of promoting it) and Tory Anne Widdecombe and others in calling for the resignation of London's loopy-lefty Mayor, Ken Livingslime, who had denied that terror had any connection with Islam (or even with any `ideology' or `perversion of Islam'). A young Muslim M.P. joined in, blaming extremism on the `negligent' elderly Muslies who had allowed some 2000 British mosques to become infected with fanaticism spread by foreign mullahs (Sun, 20 vii).


SPECCIE BACKS LIBERALISM

Unlike the brain-dead Conservative Party, always inclined to agree with Government's latest illiberal proposals to restrict free speech, the Speccie robustly asserted the need to let Muslim fanatics condemn themselves out of their own mouths (and thus lead Britain's bumbling peecee Bobbies - unable to tell a Brasilian from an Arab thanks to a decade of training in ignoracism -- to the mullahs' supporters) (22 vii).


ACADEMIC FIGHTS FOR RACE REALISM AND FREE SPEECH

At Australia's Macquarie University, law professor Andrew Fraser fell out with his bosses and faced the sack for talking of `Australia's African problem' resulting from Black immigrants having too little intelligence and too much testosterone. Defiant Professor Fraser had written for Occidental Quarterly and given unofficicial advise to Australia's Patriotic Youth League. 85% of 3,500 phone-in callers to the Australian radio programme, `A Current Affair,' said they agreed with Professor Fraser.

U.K. AUTHORITIES IN DENIAL (UPDATE)

As Britain's ostrich-like peecee police and media announced, almost as if with pride, that the London bombers -- discovered to have a hidey-hole in Leeds and Luton -- were "home-grown," "British born" and "from Yorkshire," it took American publications to dwell rather more on the facts that Leeds was 15% Muslim and had an Arab community (resulting in signs on public buildings appearing in Arabic as well as English) and that nearby Bradford even sported a Pakistani "consulate" (Wvec.com, 12 vii, 18:30p.m.; CBS2chicago.com, 12 vii) and that most if not all of the bombers were Pakistani (SignonSanDiego, 12 vii, according to a Leeds councillor).

The first serious Mandarinated glimpse of the truth from a British source came [after some sixteen hours of police responding to a call from a bomber' s mother registering him as a 'missing person' and leading police to scour CCTV pronto (the high-expense space-suited DNA searches were useless) leading to identification of the bombers] when ITV's 22:30 news announced that some of the bombers had spent months 'training' in Afghanistan and Pakistan (their absences from Leeds and Luton provoking not the slightest curiosity in their Muslim friends); and when Britoid Muslims told ITV interviewers that the bombers were their own worst nightmare come true' - presumably because the Muslims, if not the media, believed the bombers to be Islamonuts. {Some 26 hours after the police swept into Leeds, BBC Radio 4 UK deigned to concede (13 vii, 08:30) that all four (highly) suspected bombers were "of Pakistani descent" - this was ten hours after I wrote to the Beeb to reprove their laughable political correctness in talking of 'British youths from Yorkshire'.}

{Terrified Islamic moderates began to appear in the media, saying they had been in hiding for years because of threats from extremists - all such threats having passed unnoticed by U.K. authorities.

Meanwhile London prepared to welcome Islamofascist preacherman Prof. Tariq Ramadan - banned from France and the USA but welcomed to excuse Islamoterror in Britain by ludicrous Blairite multiculturalists such as pompous semi-shaven jug-eared authoritarian bastard Charles Clarke, Home Secretary, and the Association of Chief Police Officers which was putting up œ9K for the gig. The CIA declared London to be "easily the most jihadist hub in western Europe" (Daily Mail, 13 vii). The Mail said that "great accommodations" were required from both sides of the Muslim-White divide; the Times said "The Muslim majority must recognize a responsibility to end the cult of nihilistic extremism"; and the Grauniad welcomed planned big-city marches by Muslims intended to demonstrate their bona fides - while letting its young Muslim columnist, Dilpazier Aslam, write that "[the agitation of Muslims] builds till it can be contained no more."

The work of the anti-Islamofascism Italian journalista Oriana Fallaci, 75 and herself not Christian, was acknowledged with appreciation in Human Events, 8 vii - she was facing legal action for 'vilifying Islam' (though fortunately was safely in hiding in New York) (Grauniad, 13 vii).} {Whereas London's mayor Ken Livingstone had insisted the bombers could not be said to have acted 'ideologically' or even out of a 'perversion of Islam', Rev. Blair and Chazza respectively backed these two explanations while calling on moderate Islamofascists to demonstrate their moderation. The Guardian and Sun both recorded Mr Blair in apparently tough-minded form about extreme Mohammedanism, saying "We must pull up this evil ideology by its roots. Young people get indoctrinated into what is an extreme and poisonous version and perversion of the religion"; and the Guardian had its MP columnist Jackie Ashley, doyenne of Islington's chattering classes, defending Britain as a home not specially of stoicism, courage or even good humour but of "lively democracy and free speech" and writing that "Saying that the bombings have nothing at all to do with Islam is fatuous" ('Speak up, Speak out!' 14 vii) - though the newspaper felt obliged to balance this with a column saluting Prof. Ramadan.

Mick Hume in the Times agreed with Jackie Ashley on the need for robust free speech, while equally declining to even hint what this might involve - perhaps the identification of the problems of low-IQ youths (whether Muslim, Catholic or Proddie) that was once presented fully to the public in The g Factor, 1996.}



BLACK-ON-WHITE RAPIST REVEALED

After a lengthy legal battle, the 15-year old schoolboy who had raped (forced oral sex on) a 28-year-old female teacher at Westminster City School for Boys was publicly revealed as being of Arab appearance with an Afro hairstyle (Sun, 13 vii).



PLATO DOES WELL IN COMPETITION

Backed by myself, Denis Constales and Harrison Kane ('Why ignore the g factor?') and by intellectual comedian Stephen Fry, the philosopher Plato came fifth in the BBC competition to find the world's top philosophers (BrandRepublic, 15 vii). The realists/empiricists Marx, Hume and Plato occupied three of the first five places, the other two being taken by the idealists/subjectivists Wittgenstein and Nietzsche.



WETS BLASTED

A fine summary of Britain's main problem, its pseudo-socialist wimps and amnesiacs, unable to believe in Britain's historic liberating genius (even nurturing 'top' philosopher Marx as he worked out his damaging anti-g ideas in the comfort of the British Museum) was provided by Gerard Baker in the Times, 15 vii). The Guardian also carried a fine quote from Marx's Mum, that she complained that Marx spent 'too much time writing about capital and not enough time making it.'



PEECEE FORGOTTEN

The Washington Post remarkably attributed the success of modern Finland partly to its "ethnic homogeneity"



GENES FOR IQ FOUND

Queensland psychogeneticist Professor Nick Martin claimed to have found genes on chromosomes 2 and 6 which differ between twins (and between siblings) in so far as the twins (and siblings) differ in IQ. 1,000 Australian and Dutch adolescents served as subjects in the study which pinpointed specific areas of DNA in which the genetic differences occurred. The researchers linked chromosome 2 to Performance IQ, overlapping a region associated with autism. The region on Chromosome 6 was linked to full-scale and verbal IQ and had a small overlap with an area implicated in reading disability and dyslexia.



PROFESSOR FOR ENOCH; P.M. FOR 'ASSIMILATION'; MUSLIM vs ISLAM

Linguistics professor Geoffrey Sampson (in trouble in 2002 for 'racism') published a fine letter defending Enoch Powell's concerns about immigration (Daily Telegraph, 15 iv).

And British Prime Minister Tony Blair became the latest politician to say that multiculturalism (said in 2004 to have its limits by Campaign for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips) would have to be put on the back burner while Britain concentrated on demanding the assimilation of Muslims - to which the only alternative was apparently "anarchy."

From Canada, a pretty and dashing young female TV presenter calling herself a "Muslim refusenik," Irshad Manji, emerged with a new book, The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith. An excerpt: "...we know that we can't pin our basest ills on America. The cancer begins with

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A MODEST PROPOSAL

In all the discussion of the London bombings, I don't find any positive proposals that anyone dares to put forward. So here's a try:

I suggest a campaign to encourage Londoners to sit at the front of tubes, trains and buses if White; and at the back if Black, Arab, Pakistani etc. Everyone will feel safer with this mini-apartheid -- for surely martyr-terrorists won't want to blow up carriage loads of their own kin, so even the Muslims will feel safer. You could call the campaign 'Safe [Separate] Seating -- Beat the Bombers.' It could easily start by word of mouth, and once it begins it would catch on quickly since everyone would see the rationale (and Blacks et al. would just find all the front seats taken so would easily adjust by heading towards the roomier conditions at the rear).

BRITISH PRESS SELF-DESTRUCTS - LIKE MUCH ELSE

After a lunatic week of failing to diagnose Africa's poverty- corruption- and AIDS-generating problem (low IQ), the British press declined to say what could be done about the Islamosfascist 7 vii bombing (killing some 70) of peecee-crazy Londonistan - which mad Muslims had made their home for the previous twenty years despite protests to Westminster from Arab governments. Even the idea of blowing up one mosque or Muslim business per Westerner killed 'in the name of Islam' did not occur to Britain's wretched 'tabloid' newspapers, supposedly so devoted to the national interest of flushing out hostile psychotics, ignorant incompetents and overfed crazies who humiliate Westerners before sawing their heads off all the while sporting British passports (yes, stand up Omar Sheikh, the Pakistan-based but LSE-educated beheader of American Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl). Accompanying the paparazzi in peecee piety were the police who, instead of telling the Muslim community to deliver information pronto, devoted vast technological resources of men in space suits to analyzing shards of Tube train glass for DNA and sent thousands of officers off to trace 'email threats' made against Britain's Islamonuts.

At the same time, the 'G8' 'world leaders', meeting for golf and nosh at Gleneagles Hotel, agreed to give $3bn to the murderous Arab fanatics of Palestine. In fairness, the Daily Telegraph's Charles Moore ('Where is the Gandhi of Islam?' 9 vii) did question the denial by pinko Mayor of London Ken Livingstone that 'terrorism' was in any way connected with Islam (or even with a 'perversion of Islam') and the feebleness of 'moderate' Muslim clerics who freely associate with grossly anti-Semitic colleagues, refuse the police the use of sniffer dogs and access to the 'holier' areas of mosques, decline to issue fatwas against any Muslim or Muslim movement at all (including jihadist 'charities'), and decline to encourage young Muslims to join the British police and army to fight extremism in the four years since 9/11.

But it looked as if it would be light years before British papers would turn to consider how Israel copes with Palestinians and how Britain once coped with its own rebellion-prone Scottish Highlanders of the eighteenth century. By contrast, the Italians did not mess around - they arrested 142 terror suspects (surely Muslims) in the 48 hours after 7/7. {That terrorism can be defeated is shown by the story of the tyrannical and martyrdom-prone Zealots, forever trying to whip up their fellow Jews against Rome but finally defeated in A.D. 70 - beginning the Jewish Diaspora which itself currently looks such a long-term success IQ-wise for the Jews who survived European pogroms and the Holocaust and got out to America or back to Israel.} {In a surprise move on 10 vii, the normally NuLabour-backing Observer let its star columnist, Nick Cohen, condemn Islamofascism and the Western liberal-lefties who felt obliged to act as its apologists.}



IQ SURFACES

What with talk of Ashkenazi high IQ, of bigger brains being linked to intelligence (in a Virginia U. review of twenty modern studies), of females's smaller brains (though equal IQs) and of the relative importance of 'EQ' ('Emotional IQ' = neuroticism x conscientiousness) as compared to IQ, Google News was yielding 417 hits for a search of 'intelligence IQ' in July.



U.K. AUTHORITIES IN DENIAL

As Britain's ostrich-like peecee police and media announced, almost as if with pride, that the London bombers -- discovered to have a hidey-hole in Leeds and Luton -- were "home-grown," "British born" and "from Yorkshire," it took American publications to dwell rather more on the facts that Leeds was 15% Muslim and had an Arab community (resulting in signs on public buildings appearing in Arabic as well as English) and that nearby Bradford even sported a Pakistani "consulate" (Wvec.com, 12 vii, 18:30p.m.; CBS2chicago.com, 12 vii) and that most if not all of the bombers were Pakistani (SignonSanDiego, 12 vii, according to a Leeds councillor).

The first serious Mandarinated glimpse of the truth from a British source came after some sixteen hours of police responding to CCTV (not the high-expense DNA) identification of the bombers when ITV's 22:30 news announced that some of the bombers had spent months 'training' in Afghanistan and Pakistan (their absences from Leeds and Luton provoking not the slightest curiosity in their Muslim friends); and that Britoid Muslims were telling ITV interviewers that the bombers were 'their worst nightmare come true' - presumably because the Muslims, if not the media, believed the bombers to be Islamonuts.

{Some 26 hours after the police swept into Leeds, BBC Radio 4 UK deigned to concede (13 vii, 08:30) that all four (highly) suspected bombers were "of Pakistani descent" - this was ten hours after I wrote to the Beeb to reprove their laughable political correctness in talking of 'British youths from Yorkshire'.}

{Terrified Islamic moderates began to appear in the media, saying they had been in hiding for years because of threats from extremists - all such threats passing unnoticed by U.K. authorities. Meanwhile London prepared to welcome Islamofascist preacherman Prof. Tariq Ramadan - banned from France and the USA but welcomed to excuse Islamoterror in Britain by ludicrous Blairite multiculturalists such as pompous semi-shaven jug-eared authoritarian bastard Charles Clarke, Home Secretary.}



MULTICULTI INTEGRATION SPURNED

Wanting to stay unintegrated with their Nagala neighbours of India's north-eastern border with Burma, the Asian Christians of Manipur took to blowing up a lot of things, including Indian soldiers (Guardian, 12 vii).

From Rags To Riches To Repeated Offending


Why should Sir Bob Geldof's 150,000 demonstrators, now heading for highjinks in Edinburgh on Saturday, July 2, want to 'make poverty history' when even their beloved Guardian newspaper today (amazingly) admits the limits of riches, as follows (29 June):

"Sandwiched on the court list between a "driving whilst disqualified" and a "drunk in charge of a vehicle", Michael Andrew Carroll needed no introduction when he arrived in the dock. A regular before King's Lynn magistrates [in Norfolk, East Anglia] for offences such as disorderly behaviour and taking vehicles, Carroll is infamous in the tabloid press as the King of Chavs [cheap-jewelry-sporting low life] after winning £9.7m on the National Lottery. As he became the richest man to be given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order yesterday, the 22-year-old was proof that money does not change anything."

The print version of the top-Left newspaper goes on to summarize six other cases of 'Losers' - multi-millionaires from gambling who had been unable to abandon their thieving, boozing and petty-violent habits of a lifetime. One even ended up murdering his wife because he had not wanted to tell her of his windfall so an argument broke out when she discovered his deceit - he was sent to prison for life.

Such dramatic admissions by the Guardian suggest it may have taken on board research available by the mid-1980s to the effect that, on its own, poverty in adulthood does not account for crime - as many concluded by around 1990, by when Florida State University's Glayde Whitney showed that the impoverishment of San Francisco's Chinatown of the 1960s had actually been associated with an astonishingly *low* crime rate. An specially persuasive article was that in the American Journal of Sociology in 1980 (by T. Hirschi and M. Gottfredson) which found differences in criminality beween the employed and the jobless to be "often small or non-existent." In Britain, top criminologist Jock Young (known for his left-wing views) was pointing out by 1989 that, between 1951 and 1971, real disposable income per person had increased by 64% but, far from falling, the crime rate had increased by 172%. No wonder Tony Blair MP soon came round and announced that crime could *not* be blamed on deprivation of a material sort -- thus making his 'New Labour' party electable as 'tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.'

Today's Guardian even gives house-room to a hint as to what may be the really big cause of crime. In a column attempting to blame the middle classes for 'racism' to asylum seekers, Miranda Lewis admits that her research for the Institute for Public Policy Research found Chinese and White South Africans to be experienced as "reasonably desirable neighbours" while Black Africans and Iraqis triggered middle-class anxiety (as they also trigger it in America's Black Rev. Jesse Jackson, who once famously admitted to relief on finding the feet following him on a Washington street one night belonged to a White man). It can be no accident that the first two groups are notoriously of good intelligence and reliability, whereas sub-Saharan Black African IQ is around a disastrous 75 and even the IQ in Iraq is only around 87 (R. Lynn & T. Vanhanen, 2002, IQ and the Wealth of Nations). Notoriously, British and American prisoners, whether Black or White, have an average IQ of 85. That Black problems of criminality and lack of economic progress do not originate largely in poverty and disease or even in Africa's omnipresent corruption is also mooted in today's Guardian by the Ghanaian novelist and journalist Cameron Duodu. Since Duodu is Black, he is allowed to write in the normally more pious Guardian that Africa's governments have been "short-sighted and self-centred to a degree that borders on stupidity."

So poverty is not, it appears, the history of the ills of either Whites or Blacks. How nice to see the Guardian coming round 15 years after psychologists had seen the light -- even if most repressed the news rather than lose their jobs for publicizing it! Perhaps by 2020 the Guardian will catch up with the latest American research (see Chicago economics professor Steven D. Levitt's Freakanomics) attributing much of America's drop in crime in the 1990s to the uptake of abortion by Blacks in the late-1970s after Roe & Wade -- and thus attributing crime partly to genetic factors....

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CONSERVATIVE BREAK-UP PREDICTED

A fine article in the Spectator by Daily Mail columnist Peter Hitchens reckoned the Tories were done for, having failed to fight the culture wars against "Frankfurt School Marxism" -- and, he might have generously added, having its clothes re the economy, Europe, NATO and crime stolen by New Labour. I threw in my two pennorth for the Speccie as follows.

Peter Hitchens' diagnosis is correct (Spectator, 18 vi 2005): Britain needs a moderate nationalist party. Now, this would likely produce the same kind of Labour-Liberal-Nationalist split as is found in Scotland, where forty years of the Scottish National Party's efforts have produced little power. It will thus be important for those choosing to form an English National Party and aim for a bright, White future to keep links open to the Liberals -- stressing, as did Pim Fortuyn in Holland, the centrality of liberty to the anti-socialist effort. As Conservatism breaks up -- its policies on economics, defence and crime stolen by New Labour -- budding nationalists should recall what will be for most of them their admiration for Liberals of the past like Lord Palmerston and David Lloyd George. And they will need to be ready to be liberal about drugs, the age of consent and a statute of limitations to prevent millions of our teenagers beginning adult life under fear of prosecution or blackmail.

ANGLO-SAXON APTITUDES

The British National Party was understandably glad to welcome Oxford research showing that 80% of the DNA of British Whites can be traced back to incoming Anglo-Saxons of 14,000 years ago, following big game migrating westwards from the Continent to warmer conditions as the Ice Age receded (16 vi). Evidently the Anglo-Saxons swept all before them, showing that Britain is no 'mongrel nation' and also showing that giving immigrants an inch will soon see them taking a mile. {Hopefully such excellent testimony to the power of the gene helped make up to the BNP for its leader, Nick Griffin, being sent to Leeds Crown Court in July for trial on race hate allegations (BBC, 16 vi).}


FAXALIFE FOR AMERICA

Outstanding Chicago economics professor Steven D. Levitt produced Freakanomics, showing among other 'weird' findings for modern Yankees that (1) parents don't have much environmental influence on their children; (2) that kids with stereotypically 'Black' names, like DeShawn, are given them by parents who are singularly immersed in Black 'culture' and thus pass down bad genes as well as bad names; (3) that crime declined in America of c. 1990 because of the legalization of abortion that had occurred after Roe vs Wade. {Steve Sailer had provided fun commentary on Levitt's excellent efforts to steer America to mention genes in connection with race and behaviour (24 iv).}

{In Britain, TV Channel 4 was gearing up to provide its viewers with evidence that African AIDS might have something to do with Black males fancying screwing any female within view after a couple of pints.}


NEO-ANTI-RACISM APPEALS TO PEECEE NULABOUR

As Parliament began debating Government proposals to legislate against 'incitement to religious hatred', ministers swore that their Bill would not interfere with jokes about, or criticism of, or even ridicule of religion. But, as Lord Anthony Lester QC wrote in the Guardian, as the proposed legislation was framed, "It is unclear why such activities will not be unlawful." An interesting candidate for a first prosecution under the intended Act was French Muslim female Nedjina Driss, author of an impressive erotic novel, The Almond, set against a Muslim background (and including women who had managed to retain their nubbly clitorises to polyorgasmic effect). Ms Driss told the Guardian (21 vi): "The Arab world is a sick old man, consumed by gangrene, illiteracy, poverty, dictatorship and fundamentalism." Was that just a little fair-minded criticism or an 'incitement to hatred,' and how could one tell? The only serious question seemed to be whether the Government would choose to prosecute for racism or the new unintentional crime of religionism.

{The renewed move to placate Muslims -- who, unlike Jews, are not protected by Britain's illiberal race hate legislation -- came after Labour lost a London parliamentary seat at the General Election to 'Gorgeous' George Galloway who had persisted in talking peace to Iraq's Madman Insane.}



CHURCH SCHISM IMMINENT

As Black Anglicans continued to make clear their antipathy to actively and openly sodomitic American priests, Archbishop Rowan Williams declared the state of the Church of England to be "catastrophic" (Guardian, 22 vi).



'DID A GOOD JOB' -- EX-MAYOR

As the spotlight fell on Mississippi for locking up an 80-year old Klansmen for murders of 40 years ago, it transpired that America's most segregated areas were not in the
South, with its Ku Kux Klan, but in Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, St Louis and Newark where people had long ago voted with their feet in the absence of any serious social controls on Black criminality. No wonder the guy who was Mayor of Philadelphia in the 1990's told the Mississippi jury that "the Klan did a good job up here"....



ARAB TASTE IN BOYS REVEALED

Twenty-two Pakistani boys of ages 3 to 15 were rescued by the Pakistani ambassador and his staff from cages in which they had been starved in the United Arab Emirates so as to keep them light enough to be successful camel jockeys. Altogether 300 such boy slaves were rumoured to be held in UAE



SWEET DANES ADMIT PEECEE IS A FLOP

According to Danish justice minister Lene Espersen, immigrant gangs have taken over organized crime in Denmark. The intruders, who come mostly from the Middle East and the Balkans, have displaced the homegrown biker gangs that once controlled the Danish traffic in illegal drugs, and have also taken charge of human trafficking from Eastern Europe and the Third World to the small Nordic country." -- Occidental Quarterly (14 vi), which added that Danish police admitted immigrant crime was proportionally three times as high as that among White youths of similar age and sex.



HOME TRUTHS TOLD ABOUT YAGS

Some Spanish Senators and Spain's anti-gay-marriage Popular Party, which had called psychiatry professor Aquilino Polaino (Madrid's Catholic University) to testify, tactfully expressed shock at being told that homosexuality was a "pathology" attributable to "a hostile, distant, alcoholic or violent father.... Or an overprotective, cold and demanding mother" -- but not enough shock to prevent the Senate finally voting against yag marriage 131-119, thus freeing Spain's priests to refuse to officiate at such marriages (Independent, 23 vi).

Belgium, Holland, Massachusetts and most states of Canada had legalized sodomitic marriage -- laying themselves open to future legal action for destruction of personal identity by any adoptees of gay marriages who turn out to be yags themselves. {Sadly, Prof. Polaino somewhat blotted his copy book by claiming homosexuality could be "corrected by therapy." 75 years of behaviourism and its renamed version cognitivism have not seen a single human sexual perversion rendered treatable.}

Economist NODS TO IQ

Surprisingly for a magazine that declined to review IQ and the Wealth of Nations, the Economist (2 vi) carried the theory of U.S. scientists Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending (which could not be published in American academia) that higher Jewish IQ is conveyed by genes making for nervous system branching: supposedly, as with sickle-cell anaemia and malaria, having a single version of the relevant gene is helpful though getting both versions is pretty calamitous -- single doses of the genes make for higher IQ, but double doses produce too much branching and yield the distinctive Jewish genetic problems of Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's and Niemann-Pick diseases. {Perhaps the Economist just couldn't resist when told there is a high correlation between IQ and success in banking.... }

{The story also made it into the New York Times (3 vi) which gave sympathetic consideration to Ashkenazi-Jewish intelligence having risen in Europe from 800A.D. (because Jews were banned from many occupations and land-owning but found a living practising usury and tax collection) and carried a mixture of comments from top Ashkenazi scientists including Stephen Pinker.}

{Biodiversity supremo Steve Sailer discussed the West's neglect of genetics and genetic engineering in VDare, 1 v.} {And the news carried to Denver's alert Rocky Mountain News, 11 vi. Canada's Globe & Mail [cf. New York Times] carried a substantial and sympathetic review of this and other genetic x racial work by Medical Correspondent Carolyn Abraham, beginning on its front-page (18 vi) -- though with apparently obligatory opening and closing swipes at "infamous" and "internationally condemned" Phil Rushton; a re-draft of this story appeared in the Jerusalem Post, 19 vi; and the finding got a mention at RunnersWeb.com along with the observation that almost all the world's 500 top 100-meter sprinters were of West African descent (19 vi) Wry welcoming comment on Abraham's piece was provided by Steve Sailer (19 vi).} {Cleveland, Ohio's Jewish News established that Gaucher's victims in a Jerusalem hospital were highly over-represented in high-IQ professions (19 vi).}

{Another religious group that may have forged ahead from its isolation (and worse -- see American example) and resort to usury is that of the Quakers. They are certainly at the top of American IQ tables (SAT scores) -- McDougall NewsLetter, 23 iii 99); and they are substantially over-represented in America's East Coast New York Times-reading Establishment, being ahead of Presbyterians and streets ahead of Muslims and Mormons -- Gene Expression, 6 xii 04. (Though legalized in Cromwell's England, usury was still subject to legal restraints in England of 1800, where relaxation of restrictions was urged by Jeremy Bentham; it was forbidden in the original U.S Constitution; and it was vigorously condemned by the Pope as late as 1891. Today, Islam still forbids usury; nor is usury popular with 'white nationalists,' or ecologists.)}



LEFTIST DOUBTS NEW HANDOUTS FOR AFRICA

It was not just the new World Bank boss, the neoconservative Paul Wolfowitz who suspected that Western cash for Africa tended to end up fuelling corruption. The latest bout of proposals of utopian generosity to the Dark Continent by the U.K. leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as they prepared to host the G8 meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland met with some reservation even in the Guardian (3 vi) which had headlines saying 'Fraud verdict implicates Mbeki's deputy' and 'Continent in thrall of corruption' and a leading article referring to Africa's "corrupt leaders and officials." {Wow, at this rate it may only be a decade before the Grauniad mentions Black Africa's little problem of its IQ being only around 70! .... }

{South Africa's Thabo Mbeki was going to be none too pleased with this kind of leftist attack, busy as he was accusing the saintly Mr Brown of criticizing Africans for 'sexual depravity' -- when all Mr Brown had done was to say Britain couldn't go on endlessly apologizing for the Empire (even if that was the Spectator's own sorry inclination (4 vi)).}

{The Guardian seemed to have caught the mood of the British public, 79% of whom told YouGov pollsters that Africa's troubles were due to "corrupt and incompetent governments"; and 80% said Africa was not doing enough to solve its problems (Daily Telegraph, 4 vi). 53% additionally blamed HIV/AIDS -- of which Swaziland provided a spectacular example, with 42.6% of its adult population infected (while its King Mswati III continued to build himself an airport able to receive jumbo jets -- doubtless to help receive the œ907,000 in aid given annually by Britain).} {Even Blacks themselves seemed to be taking a dim view of sending money to Africa: after self-publicist ... ooops ... altruist Bob Geldof approached British Black music groups to take part in his latest orgy of generosity to Africa, 'Live 8', he claimed to have been that told almost all Black groups were 'too busy.'}

{In fact, 'incompetence' is the key to African economic backwardness and lack of international fame in rock music, rather than 'corruption' -- for there is no worldwide negative correlation between corruption and growth, as witness economic progress in legendarily corrupt India (Elliott Green, letter to Daily Telegraph, 4 vi). Ten years after White rule ended, South Africa was "engulfed" in riots matching any that happened under apartheid (Sunday Telegraph, 5 vi).} {The Guardian followed up its reservations with a fine piece by its columnist Martin Kettle, 'The naive lead the naive in a campaign of liberal guilt,' 7 vi. Kettle wrote:

"For every 1,000 pounds of African debt and debt interest, Africa's elites have exported 1,450 pounds of capital into overseas banks and investments. ....Every African alive today has received $5,000 in aid. ....Africa has already received the equivalent of six Marshall plans in cash terms."

Kettle speculated that the Brown-Blair interest in Africa was intended to placate the many protesters against globalization expected in Edinburgh in July.} {Realizing it had suddnly become acceptable to criticize African governance -- if not to attribute the incompetence to low IQ (R. Lynn & T. Vanhanen, 2002, IQ and the Wealth of Nations) -- the Daily Telegraph threw in front-page headlines to the effect that oil-rich Nigeria's leaders had salted away for themselves GBP220 billon, the same amount as the aid given by the West to the whole of Africa in the previous 40 years.} {In tortured Zimbabwe, Tyrant Robert Mugabe embarked on what the Times called a "frenzy of destruction" -- pulling down the shanty homes of thousands, apparently for no greater crime than making the place look untidy.}

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ETHNIC CLEANSING SUCCESSES

As trouble continued in multicultural Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan and Northern Ireland, Times Higher (5 vi) offered as examples of soothing separations the interchanges of population between Greece and Turkey after 1918 and the Russians' cleansing Eastern Europe of Germans after 1945. Apparently the British Government did once toy with the idea of solving the Irish question by shifting 500,000 Catholics from North to South in return accepting 200,000 Protestants coming from the South to the North -- the idea appealed to Prime Minister Edward Heath in the 1970s. {Likewise the population interchange between India and Pakistan in 1947 saved many millions of lives and prevented civil war -- even though some 1 million may have died in the course of the interchange.}



PHONIC READING METHOD SUCCESS

Six years after readers of the McDougall NewsLetter were made a free offer of my phonic method of teaching reading to their infants, this method was recognized as promising by Labour's new Education Minister, Ruth Kelly, and in a number-one leader in the Daily Telegraph (4 vi).



LUNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH DISASTER

Languishing in academic ratings for almost a decade, the LUniversity of Edinburgh suffered spectacular humiliation as one of its Ph.D. students died on Mount Everest while testing ELU-designed equipment intended to help climbers cope with altitude sickness. Dr Robert Milne, 49, was said by his wife to have been extremely fit before leaving Scotland, and his diaries showed him in good spirits until the last.



BUSTED BLONDE

A Norwegian blonde, 32, who brought men home to taunt her husband was jailed for a year after falsely claiming to have been abducted and raped by a man she had in fact targeted in a pub -- who then had to endure a day in jail and three months of feminazish persecution before video footage emerged showing the blonde thoroughly enjoying herself with him in a hotel (Sun, 7 vi). {But sex-mad Merete Underwood, who had cried rape five times before, e.g. after a night of ecstasy with a Stavanger plumber (News of the World, 12 vi), was still not short of suitors -- with one 36-year-old vowing to wed her (Sun, 9 vi).}



PSYCHOPATHY STRONGLY HERITABLE -- Times READERS TOLD

New research (by Essi Viding) on the 3,700 twin pairs registered at London's Institute of Psychiatry found scores on a measure of 'Callous and Unfeeling' to be 80 heritable. High scores on a measure of 'Anti-social Behaviour' were also strongly heritable -- but not lower scores. {Sadly, the Times' reporting of this research -- by female journalist Anjana Ahuja -- was gravely deficient, saying that the high heritability estimates were the result of identical twins being more psychopathic than fraternals. No wonder Britain's great-and-good are so hopelessly ignorant of genetic factors, if even a Times journalist writing on the subject does not know that the relevant calculation compares the twin correlations found within each of the two types of twin!}

{The Times added that another big twin study, at London's St Thomas's Hospital, had shown female orgasmicity to be substantially heritable. Base rates were that 1 woman in 6 never had an orgasm with her partner (1 in 7 when trying masturbation); 1 in 7 always orgasmed with her partner (1 in 3 using masturbation).}



Re: the rush to spend Western money on Black Africa:

I wrote to the Times and phoned the BBC as follows:

There is actually no international correlation between corruption and poverty, as work at the London School of Economics has recently shown. Africa's outstanding problem is low IQ, as documented in the book 'IQ and the Wealth of Nations' and reported in the Times on 10th November, 2003. Since IQ differences are strongly heritable, any Western cash showered on Africa will be largely wasted (like the equivalent of six Marshall plans already given to Africa) unless dedicated to clearly relevant measures (e.g. reducing dysgenic breeding by strict sexual segregation till 18 and increasing breeding by graduates -- even allowing them polygamy)

Chris Brand, Edinburgh

It is perhaps worth adding that the World Bank has reported: "Econometric analyses show that aid has no systematic relationship to growth anywhere in the world. This may not be surprising in countries where aid is small relative to the size of the economy. It is surprising and concerning in Africa .... where aid flows have consistently reached 10% or more of gross national product in many countries over an extended period of time." (World Bank, 1999, "Aid Effectiveness: The Problem of Africa.")

{One problem in introducing sexual and reproductive health education, contraception, abortion and voluntary sterilization more widely to Africa is the opposition of President Dubya Bush and his religious backers....}

{Private Eye had Black African leaders including Zimbotswanique's Pres. Dinkum Banana joining in the appeal to make poverty history for African leaders, promising to spend the cash only on arms, palaces, alcohol and women....} {A Speccie leader (10 vi) expressed well the essential drive of the 'make poverty history' protestors headed for Edinburgh: "It is as if the West's socialists, having lost the argument over state ownership of the means of production at home, have instead identified Africa as a test-bed for their beliefs." But of course the Speccie could not mention average IQ, only "the absence of talented individuals because, through fear of their livelihoods and in some cases lives, they have fled over the past 30 years, taking their skills and œ100 billion worth of wealth with them."}

{The case against splurging on Africa was made excellently on the front pages of the Speccie, 25 vi, and the Daily Telegraph, 25 vi -- both of which recorded that theft by African leaders -- e.g. of Nigeria's oil reserves, even their future mortgaged for UKP20 billion, far exceeded what was given in aid by the lunatic West.}


WHO HELPED KILL VICTORIA CLIMBIE?

As a social work 'tribunal' rescinded condemnation of Black Lisa Arthurworrey, who had let her charge the little Black girl Victoria clock up 168 injuries and die (at the hands of her Black aunt and the aunt's Black boyfriend -- both subsequently jailed for life), Britain waited in vain for public criticism of the political correctness in Haringey which counselled staff to turn a blind eye to the rougher edges of Black culture -- and to fear being accused as racist if they did otherwise. But answer came there none -- especially not from the BBC which pussyfooted around the subject (9 vi 05). Braver -- because of his Blackness and kindred anti-racist credentials -- had been Campaign for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips who had once condemned Haringey's indulgence of Blacks' little ways as "racist" (27 iv 04) and the Glasgow Herald's Ruth Wishart backed him up (6 vi 05). Victoria's parents, Francis and Berthe Climbi‚ who had never blamed the pretty junior Arthurworrey, demanding sackings at management level. {Meanwhile, Britain had another Black torture case on its hands -- involving an Angolan girl of 8 whose aunt had felt she was a "witch" and thus needed discipline and disposal in a zipped bag thrown into the Thames (Times Online, 3 vi 05).

The BBC (3 vi 05) promptly allowed a Black church to mount an unopposed defence of exorcism -- apparently to get rid of 'ndoki' which can affect even unborn children in the womb. Police, noting the disappearance of hundreds of Black children from London schools, feared this case might be only the tip of an iceberg of Black child abuse tolerated by UK teachers and social workers -- and indeed police (who prefer hounding motorists, marijuana smokers and internet paedodownloaders to the far more serious problem of Black criminality).}



TOP U.S. RACE REALIST SACKED

Managing Editor at Human Events (America's oldest weekly conservative publication), Kevin Lamb, who in his free time edited Occidental Quarterly, found himself fired after a simple phone call from the affluent Southern Poverty Law Centre complaining of his less than wildly welcoming attitude to homosexuality and gay marriage. Kevin set out the details in Middle America News (vi 2005), bravely concluding with the words of the pioneering social psychologist, William McDougall (1934, Religion and the Science of Life, London:Methuen). Conservatives once defended the importance of conserving America's heritage and cultural traditions, but the rise of "political correctness" says Kevin, has foreshadowed an important point that William McDougall, once argued decades ago:

"The essential expressions of conservatism are respect for the ancestors, pride in their achievement, and reverence for the traditions which they have handed down; all of which means what is now fashionable to call 'race prejudice' and 'national prejudice,' but may more justly be described as preference for, and belief in the merits of, a man's own tribe, race, or nation, with its peculiar customs and institutions -- its ethos, in short. If such preferences, rooted in traditional sentiments, are swept away from a people, its component individuals become cosmopolitans; and a cosmopolitan is a man for whom all such preferences have become mere prejudices, a man in whom the traditional sentiments of his forefathers no longer flourish, a man who floats upon the current of life, the sport of his passions, though he may deceive himself with the fiction that he is guided in all things by reason alone."

Kevin received a tidal wave of sympathy from correspondents to American Renaissance (vi 05). Apparently veteran race realist Sam Francis had similarly been fired from Washington Times after some ethnic complained about his vigorous defence of White interests.}



EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHER BACK-TRACKS FROM 'INCLUSION'

Top Government adviser, Baroness Warnock, 82, caused consternation among idealists and hilarity among realists as she reversed gear on the policy of integrating feeble-minded children (euphemistically renamed Special Educational Needs children) into normal curricula which she had foisted on British schools thirty years ago. She admitted that, in practice, inclusion too often created "a confusion of which children are the casualties" (BBC, 10 vi). {The Guardian commended Mary Warnock's "frankness," suggesting that the empirical case for ditching socialist ideology and restoring special schools and classes -- as urged in The g Factor, 1996 -- is pretty overwhelming. The Daily Telegraph's editor, Charles Moore, properly ridiculed the wish of the "alert and bossy as ever [Lady Warnock], aged 81" to have yet another "government-funded Committee of Inquiry" to rectify her own Committee's errors of 30 years ago.}


USELESS TORIES TRIGGER REFLECTION

As candidates for the Conservative leadership let it be known they were (variously) pro-European Union, pro-the invasion of Serbia, anti-the invasion of Iraq, pro-motorist, family-forgetting and gay, it increasingly appeared that only a programme of national liberalism pitched especially at young people would attract votes. The main novel proposals for kids (and a few others) would be as follows:

FREEDOM -- A NATIONAL LIBERAL CHARTER

1. Legalize all drugs (and tax them up to the hilt). (Prostitution, gambling and drinking were all increasingly freed from legal control in the twentieth century, so why not drugs, the main source of gun crime in Britain? Keeping up taxes would mean a living could be eked out of smuggling by criminals, thus dissuading them from reverting to time-honoured practices of breaking and entering.)

2. Lower the age of consent to Mental Age 14. (Thus allowing kids if IQ 120 to engage in sexual activity from age 12 if desired.)

3. Create a Youth Army for Africa (YAA) which would spend all aid money aimed at Africa.

4. Encourage all youth to undertake service in YAA -- which, with staff seconded from Oxbridge, would provide free degrees to students who stayed five years. (This would begin to break the liberal-left's current monopoly of higher education.)

5. Charge no university fees to girls with babies of their own by fathers who were fully supporting mother and child.

6. Allow all children (subject to parental agreement) a choice of at least three state schools.

7. Allow all children (subject to parental agreement until age 12) a choice of at least three school classes at any one time -- including being allowed to take lessons with older or younger children.

8. Let people choose their own health insurance -- deciding for themselves whether to insure for getting a hip transplant at 95 etc.

9. Return to Preventive Detention for criminals -- i.e. to the American 'three strikes and you're out.'

10. Instruct police to investigate only crimes reported by the public -- thus stopping much mindless persecution of motorists, prostitutes and paedophiles (and, at present, drug-takers).

11. Legislate to allow victims of physically intrusive crimes (against person or property) to defend themselves with force until the criminal is prostrate and incapable of immediate further action.

12. Scrap restrictions on police stopping suspicious persons (i.e. young Black males) to question them.

13. Introduce a statute of limitations forbidding prosecution for events of more than two years ago -- thus switching off blackmail threats against teenagers who have taken drugs, had illicit sex etc.

14. Decriminalize all activity and speech resulting in no direct loss, physical pain or physical harm to a named victim -- again, reducing threats of blackmail and re-establishing free speech and intelligent discrimination and reasonable prejudice.

GERMAN RACE REALISM LIVES ON

Augsburg Zoo found itself at the centre of 'controversy' for having mounted a fine display of African 'culture' next to its baboon house.


JOY OF DIVERSITY

The Portuguese learned the delights of multiculturalism as 500 Black youths rampaged along one of the Algarve's top tourist beaches, 15km west of Lisbon, in an orgy of thieving. Whites (and some Blacks) fled before the onslaught, sometimes losing contact with their own children.


PROMOTED!

As a belated result of my "racist" book, "The g Factor", I was kindly promoted to the status of "Professor in England" by a Black American concerned to list the world's leading supporters of race realism (http://forum.rickross.com/viewtopic.php?t=1560).



PAEDOHYSTERIA PUNCTURED

The jury in Pop King Michael Jackson's trial decided that his bedding of young teenage boys was a whole lot nicer than the allegations of his mega-rich 'victims' (who had attended Jackson's Neverland ranch for years) and their money-grubbing mothers. Ludicrous paedohysterical District Attorney Thomas Sneddon stormed out of the Santa Barbara court in fury as the verdict was announced. {The sober Christian Science Monitor counseled against "over-reaction" to paedophilia; Times columnist Alice Miles praised the jurors wished Jacko well in re-starting his career; the Speccie's Leo McKinstry sympathized with Jackson and denounced "the hysteria about paedophilia" (18 vi); but the feminastish Guardian was down-in-the mouth.}

{Sadly, this INNOCENT-ON-ALL-TEN-CHARGES finding and demonstration of the lack of harm coming from paedophilia did not come in time to stop British police making
fools of themselves by charging alcoholic and notoriously womanizing British soccer superstar George Best, 59, with 'abusing' a 13-year-old girl. Bestie's ex-wife Alex vowed to stand by him against paedohysteria.}

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SPECCIE COMES ROUND

All too late in the day, the Spectator (22 iv) allowed its occasional (Belfast- and Cambridge-educated) columnist Leo McKinstry (see e.g. this Diary, 2004) to point out that Blacks and Bangladeshis in Britain commit a lot of crimes and disproportionately consume state welfare and housing benefits. Alas, this was too late for the unimaginative Conservative Mr Howard -- stuck by then with claiming to want nothing more than a few unspecified 'controls' on migration, in line with all Britain's other parties.


RACE IS BIOLOGY -- CLAIMS PUBLISHED

Licensed scholarly warfare broke out in the APA journal Psychology, Public Policy and Law (vi 05, full articles) over whether psychological race differences (especially in intelligence) are substantially heritable.

Race realists Arthur Jensen, Phil Rushton and Linda Gottfredson fought their corner excellently, conveniently reviewing the literature (cf. the Cambridge debate (i 97)*) and adding some useful points (e.g. that skin lightness is linked to IQ among South Africa's Blacks -- which it is not among America's Blacks, where lighter skins often came about from historical Black female matings with dull White farmhands during the days of slavery). The hereditarians were opposed by such as Robert Sternberg (sometimes said by me to believe in 666 types of intelligence -- Behav.Res.& Therapy, 1992; Why ignore the g factor? in H.Nyborg, 2003, The Scientific Study of General Intelligence) and Richard E. Nisbett (reviewed by me in Heredity, 2003) who claimed among other things medium-term boosts for children on non-IQ-type tests from Headstart-type programmes involving 8 hours intervention daily

Overall, the race realists had a coherent message with copious evidence and the environmentalists had the scraps; the groups remained respectively the 'stompers' and 'stompees', as amusingly caricatured by Professor Earl 'Buzz' Hunt (Brand, Person.&Indiv.Diffs, 1999) though they strangely neglected to deal with the left's main arguments against the g factor (for the argument and London School answers, see Brand, Constales & Kane, 2003).

Occidental Quarterly reckoned the 60-page Rushton & Jensen article might prove as much of a landmark as Jensen's classic 1969 Harvard Educational Review article, 'How much can we boost IQ and educational attainment?' The race-realist argument was summarized in News-Medical Net, 26 iv, and rejected by the Canadian Broadcasting Company's Stephen Strauss on the grounds that no genes had so far been found for intelligence. Strauss plainly never got the benefit of my March letter to Times Literary Supplement:

"Pittsburgh physiologists reported in 2000 that cognitive impairments are associated with the gene e4; and this gene is at least three times as common in Negroes, Pygmies and Bushmen as in East Asians, with whites falling in between (American Journal of Medical Genetics, Dec. 4; 96(6):707-11". The importance of the strongly race-linked Duffy gene to race differences in cancer and malaria was shown in new work by Cincinnati medics (Occidental Quarterly, 6 iv).


EUGENICS MARCHES ON

A new book by John Glad, Future Human Evolution (downloadable from http://www.whatwemaybe.org), set out a bright future for eugenics and especially noted that eugenics had been (both Biblically and in the 1930's) and still was much favoured by the Jews: the author quoted a contemporary Israeli journalist as saying, "Eugenics is alive and well" [in Israel]. Eugenics was also advocated publicly in 2005 by a leading member of Germany's Free Democratic Party, Daniel Bahr, who criticized the fact that only 40% of Germany's female academics had children.


LIBERAL FASCISM INDICTED

Turning the tables on its hysterical establishment enemies (who freely send the police against it and even its Cambridge-educated leader), the British National Party managed to point out in party political broadcasts on UK TV and radio that they were the only substantial party to back freedom of speech in the UK. At the time, the BNP's Cambridge-educated leader Nick Griffin faced a 17-year jail term for moderate and private verbal criticism of Islamofascism.


ACADEMICS' POLITICAL BIAS REVEALED

The extent of anti-conservative bias in British universities surfaced as Times Higher gave the party affiliations of university-employed parliamentary candidates in the 2005 General Election: Conservative 0; Green 8; Labour 8; Liberal 11; Scottish Nationalist Party 1; United Kingdom Independence Party 1. Times Higher also reported that, for the first time, support for Liberals among academics as a whole was greater than support for Labour.


MULTICULTURALIST CARRIES ON SMEARING

Although Britain's liberal left agreed to avoid calling Conservative leader Michael Howard a 'racist', there were ways round this self-denying ordinance. Thus disgraced ex-CRE drunk -- ooops -- Black boss Herman Ouseley: 'It is racist to try to capture the votes of bigots. .Michael Howard tries to capture votes otherwise destined for the British National Party.' The BBC found another way: its Radio 4 got assorted bishops, social workers and Black community leaders such as Ouseley to say they felt 'uncomfortable' with Mr Howard's tone, which was suggested to be 'subliminally racist'.

{Mr Howard remained firm that he would introduce 'controls' on immigration, but he was non-committal as to their content, saying rather airily that he would leave that to Parliament. Likewise he was not inclined to bravery about taxation, saying only that he would increase state spending by (a measly) 0.3% less than Labour.}


TOP BLACK LEFTIST ADMITS IMPORTANCE OF BIOLOGY

The ex-Harvard homosexual historian Kwame Anthony Appiah (the son of a daughter of UK Labour Chancellor Sir Stafford Cripps and a Ghanaian luminary) surprised leftists by announcing in New York Review of Books (reviewed by Alan Ryan, 28 iv) that a person's 'identity' (and thus values and ethics) would depend partly on their biology and basic nationality. Throwing in stinging criticisms of multiculturalism, postmodernism and 'existentialist creativity', he thus announced he wanted to be called a 'rooted cosmopolitan.'

{Just why he had argued with Harvard President Larry Summers about Black issues and left his Chair of African American Studies and moved to Princeton along with Black radical Cornel West thus remained unclear. The mystery was deepened as Harvard's Black humanities professor Henry Gates resigned from his chairmanship of African American Studies without giving reasons. The African Americanists also lost Black political science professor Michael Dawson to the University of Chicago. Perhaps the whole field was in serious disarray as well as being bitter in particular about Summers' victories over leftists at Harvard? Who can learn any truth in these days of spin and gross media bias? Fortunately the truths of IQ live on... }


GENES MENTIONED

After a dismal British General Election in which the words race, IQ, feminism, birth rate, family and eugenics never got a mention, rock wild child Kelly Osbourne, 20 (and daughter of freak 'Ozzie' Osbourne), blamed her druggie problems (and those of her brother, also in rehab) frankly on her genes (Sun, 6 v).

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PSYCHOLOGICAL SEX DIFFERENCES PRESENT AT BIRTH

While male human newborns prefer to look at mechanical mobiles, female new borns prefer to look at people's faces. Simon Boring-Cohen's excellent case for innate sex differences - pursued at Cambridge Uni while neglecting racial and individual differences and the Big Six personality dimensions -- remained unanswerable and treated with a journalistic respect seldom shown about other biological differences. (Though, in fairness, BBC Radio 4 had two short programmes for wymmin in March summarizing ten-year-old work on the Big Five.)


`IT'S THE RACE ISSUE, STUPID'

As all Britain's main political parties failed to connect with voters in the General Election campaign, comely Times hackette Alice Miles (said by the leftist New Statesman to be among Britain's twenty most influential women (4 iv)) summed up the situation succinctly (6 iv):

"Race is the great, silent issue in this election. It is driving everything. Out there in the real world, away from Westminster, Notting Hill and the broadcasting studios, the electorate in the marginal seats over which the parties are now fighting is obsessed with immigration. These voters seethe over confused groups of immigrants, asylum-seekers and gypsy travellers who appear to them to get away with breaking all the rules and living off everybody else. They don't pay taxes, they claim benefits, they use the NHS and they get "our" houses. And they seem to be beyond the law."

However, rather than address the transmogrification of Britain into a slave society based on cheap (and sometimes coerced) immigrant labour (and laying off 2.7 million Whites as "sick" - fit only to vote Labour by post), the PeeCee brigades opened the UK's election campaign by charging British National Party leader Nick Griffin (MA, Cantab.) with private race hate thought (Scotsman, 6 v). {A dignified challenge by the BNP to the BBC's race-unrealist coverage of modern Britain was mounted by Chairman Griffin, 28 iii.}


`ANTI-RACISTS' DENOUNCED BY PRINCIPAL

Brunel University's Vice-Chancellor, Steven Schwartz, deplored two of his academics, Saeed Vaseghi (Engineering) and Gurdish Webster (Computing) for having cost the university œ60,000 in "unwarranted demands for money" to compensate them for alleged racism.


EUGENIC EUTHANASIA FLOURISHING IN FLANDERS

While British conservatives whipped themselves into a frenzy about `late' (post 20 weeks) abortions, aiming to take a leaf out of President Bush's electoral book, across the North Sea in Belgium, paediatricians got on with despatching severely congenitally malformed and handicapped infants: a survey found doctors in Flanders responsible for about half of all deaths in the first year of life, either by suspending treatment of administering lethal doses of painkillers (Lancet; Daily Telegraph, 9 iv).


KEY TgF PROPOSAL RESURFACES

Just nine years after Mr Tony Blair's 1996 educational proposals and those of The g Factor sank under the weight of lefties pouncing on them, ideas of streaming state schoolchildren by ability were announced as being about to be put into practice in England (Sunday Telegraph, 10 iv). "A secondary school in Hampshire is to become the first state school in England to allocate all children to lessons by ability rather than age," said Education Correspondent Julie Henry. Apparently, "from September, pupils at [1,100-strong] Bridgemary School, in Gosport [a deprived area], will be taught in mixed-age classes in a radical initiative aimed at stretching the most able and helping pupils who have fallen behind." The large-scale development followed promising pilot schemes in primary schools and secondary school classes. {At the same time, nine years after Wiley DePublisher suppressed The g Factor, Conservative leader Michael Howard announced as part of his election campaigning that it was NOT `RACIST' to worry about the large-scale immigration to which Britain had been subjected -and was promptly denounced as "too harsh" by the terminally enfeebled tabloid Times newspaper.}


ELECTION CAMPAIGN ON TIP-TOE

The UK General Election became the most boring in living memory (except perhaps for voters in a few score heavily `targeted' marginal seats). For the three great topics of WAR, RACE, and WOMEN could not be addressed by the UK's cowardly politicians. The Iraq war could not be mentioned by Labour because the issue split the party; and it could not be mentioned by the Conservatives because of their leader, Michael Howard's hopeless muddle (having backed the war but later repenting) - which had got him banned from Mr Bush's neoconservative White House. Race could not be mentioned (let alone the words Black, Pakistani, psychotic or Islamofascist) since anti-racism had become the national religious piety (at least among media folk). So Mr Howard (campaign slogan the evasive "Are you thinking what we're thinking?") had to settle for occasionally mentioning immigration which he applauded and wanted only to `control' in unspecified ways -- even then he found himself regularly condemned as getting too close to the dreaded `racism', with some of these accusations coming from senior members of his own party.

Lastly, the failure of the UK's women to have enough babies (a leading cause of dullard immigration) was off the table for all parties, even apparently the British National Party and UKIP, so any resumption of breeding by the country's females was left up to the Roman Catholic Church -- admittedly enjoying greater popularity among the Great and Good than since the days of Bloody Mary, but still showing no sign of being able to enforce its injunctions against contraception on its flock. Pythonesque was the only word for these `Don't talk about it' prevarications. What a Shhhhhhhhhhhelection!

{The new Pope, Benedict XVI, emerged as a man of some promise with regard to EUROPE - another topic umentioned in the Shhhhhhhelection. Less pally that his predecessor at the Vatican Pope Jean-Paul II, had in his days as Cardinal Ratzinger warned of the growing Muslim threat to Europe and said Turkey's proposed entrance to the European Union would be "an enormous mistake." In similar vein, he had condemned relativism (the essential feature of postmodernism) as egoism and complained that multiculturalism could lead to people "fleeing from what is one's own. For good measure, he sagely condemned rock music - which reaches ever greater heights of filth, barbarism and psychosis.}

{The Daily Telegraph's columnist Ferdinand Mount also noted Britain's political pussyfooting, writing: "We deserve better than to be turned into one big ostrich farm" (20 iv). Likewise, the Speccie's political correspondent, Peter Oborne, complained of "this dull, passionless, hole-in-the-corner election" in which no express mention could be made of Britain's nature, identity or need (if any) for nationally-provided services (23 iv). And an edition of BBC1's flagship show `Question Time' went out including a vague discussion of `immigration' in which the words Black, Pakistani and IQ were never used except (the first two) by a fat frump white-haired `Green' accusing others of `racism' (21 iv).}



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LETTER TO Times Literary Supplement (7 iii)

Dear Sir,
Facing the "30-point difference in IQ between whites and sub-Saharan blacks," Jerry Coyne (Times Literary Supplement, 25 Feb. 2005, pp. 3-4, `Legends of Linnaeus') reports he knows of "no evidence" for a genetic or evolutionary explanation of this racial difference. Well, Pittsburgh physiologists reported in 2000 that cognitive impairments are associated with the gene e4; and this gene is at least three times as common in Negroes, Pygmies and Bushmen as in East Asians, with whites falling in between (American Journal of Medical Genetics, Dec. 4; 96(6):707-11).

As to evolution, the selection pressure for higher intelligence in East Asians and Caucasians was probably the Ice Age. This mainly boosted those stuck or otherwise staying in northern latitudes, for other out-of-Africa emigrant groups who crossed Asia and escaped southwards (e.g. across the frozen Bering Strait southwards down into the warmer Americas) did not themselves get much of an IQ boost (Native Americans today having an average IQ of 89). Perhaps, in return for these advices, Jerry Coyne could reciprocate by providing his own evidence that, in height, "the Japanese are predicted to outgrow Americans within a decade" - upon which remarkable basis he expects a closing of the black-white IQ gap despite no narrowing at all of this gap having occurred during the whole past century of multi-billion-dollar humanitarian efforts in the USA directed to boosting black intelligence.
I am yours sincerely, -- Chris Brand.

HERO OF EUTHANASIA

A brave ex-soldier, Andrew Wragg, 37, of Sussex, went on trial for smothering his ailing and wheelchair-bound ten-year-old son, Jacob, who was suffering the grotesque hereditary degenerative disease, Hunter's Syndrome, involving dwarfism, deafness, respiratory problems, hyperactivity, aggression, claw hands, digital contracture, excessive hair growth, double incontinence and predictable death in adolescence. Wragg and his pretty wife, 41, had been under great strain after two miscarriages and a termination when it was found that a new unborn child was carrying the disease, and Mrs Wragg had once told doctors not to resuscitate Jacob if he lost vital signs. In evidence a nurse at Jacob's school who knew the family said Andrew Wragg and his son "adored each other"; family and friends (including a former girlfriend) testified that he loved Jacob and got on well with him; and Andrew Wragg claimed actually to have had his wife's support at the time of the killing (Scotsman, 8 iii) - as suggested by her having "gone hysterical" (according to a female police officer) when police tried to resuscitate Jacob.

{The decorated ex-SAS man thus showed more sense than British law, which promptly put him on trial for murder though he himself had phoned the police immediately to admit manslaughter under diminished responsibility. Wragg killed his son immediately after returning from stressful service in Iraq, during which time Jacob had deteriorated so that he no longer recognized his father.} {Finally, the jury at Lewes Crown Court proved divided and was discharged - a fine victory for the courageous, sensible and humane Wragg, who turned out to be newly engaged to a "stunning brunette" (said the Sun).}


LEFT SPLITS OVER HARVARD PEECEE TYRANNY

Britain's Grauniad Education and the American Sociological Association continued to bash President Summers, and `Prof' Steve Jones (who snaffles Galton's money while disagreeing with Galton's views) and Baroness Susan Greenfield bad-mouthed Summers to the Observer; but Nature (3 iii) defended him as "a champion of scientific research" who merely needed to watch his lip and Times Higher quoted approvingly the verdict on today's Harvard University by ex-student Ross Gregory Douthat (author of Privilege): "intellectual rigour is eclipsed at Harvard by personal ambition and PC." America's Jewish Press (3 iii) carried a strongly supportive article from Ed Koch (Mayor of New York, 1978-1990) which concluded:

Shame on the presidents of three major institutions, Princeton, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for joining the howling mob with their condemnation of Summers. If, under these circumstances, the president of Harvard can be brought down with The [New York] Times leading the pack, everyone is in danger.

(Ed Koch is a lifelong Democrat but voted Republican for the first time in 2004 since he found the Democrats' Presidential candidate John Kerry was insufficiently tough on terror.) The Stanford Daily also backed Summers to stay (3 iii), as did the Miami Herald's Ana Veciana-Suarez (5 iii) and palaeo-conservative top politico Pat Buchanan (8 iii, suggesting cogently that Summers' real sin against PeeCee religion was simply to mention the concept of "intrinsic aptitude" which could, after all, explain race as well as sex differences). {As to the original issue itself, a Gallup Poll showed only 10% of Americans believe `there is a male superiority in maths because of genetic factors present at birth' (10 iii) - a fine achievement for the left from a generation of its dominating state education.}


KINSEY BEATS PRUDES, FEMINAZIES AND PAEDOHYSTERICS

Celebrating the new biopic on the life of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (whose Indiana University research institute faced down howling mobs in both 1953 and 1998), the Observer (6 iii) carried a sympathetic feature article saying that sex research on perversions was today accepted even in America's `Jesusland' mid-West.


TOP PEECEE GOON CAUSES CHAOS

Leftists and multiculturalists were thrown into a tizzy as the U.K.'s Black Commission for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips (who last year upset the applecart by calling for `integration' of immigrants - see this Diary for 2004) said some Black boys would benefit from segregated teaching that countered their culture in which "being clever is unfashionable." PeeCee people hurled themselves about fuming that such minimal and sensible attention to individual and group differences was likely to prove ineffective and even illegal, though Phillips had actually provided some evidence of successful segregation schemes. One Black head teacher thought Phillips' idea worth trying, but the National Association of Head Teachers condemned him as irresponsible. The BNP had a lot of fun with the issue: http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=212. The Guardian carried a story of Black children complaining about Phillips's proposal for educational apartheid, one saying "It makes me feel like I am being put down"; and the paper's correspondents were also hostile; but a leading article admitted there might be something to be said for Phillips's idea, since new research in St Louis had found boys doing 21% better after eight months of being taught separately from girls. Phillips tried to cover his backside by demanding new efforts be made to penalize "racial misconduct" in policemen. (Mr Phillips was sending his own two daughters to the North London Collegiate School, where fees were œ9,500 a year.)


THE g FACTOR REACHES Spectator READERS

Nine years after The g Factor explained the need to educate children according to their abilities, and was promptly withdrawn for alleged `racism', its argument was summarized in words of one syllable for the Speccie by Daily Mail columnist Michael Hanlon. {A sign that the British right is gingerly taking its head out of the sand about genetic differences? For such daring souls, their first stop should be to read TgF itself - free and without worrying anyone will see them.}


TV ALLOWS A SMIDGEON OF RACE REALISM

Britain's Channel 4 TV, having first balanced its books with a programme urging that all desirous immigrants be promptly admitted, allowed whacky Sextator man Rod Liddle to interview demographer David Coleman (Oxford University) and worry a little about the future nature of Britain as immigrants and their babies reach 15% of the population by 2010, perhaps generating White flight as in Holland. Liddle even once mentioned the term `Black', saying that Blacks were rather (well, 35-fold) over-represented as carriers of HIV/AIDS. The price of this ripple of realism was that Enoch Powell had to be condemned as "paranoid" and wrong (though Enoch correctly predicted the rise and rise of PeeCee); and IQ received no mention - no more than did the names of Richard Lynn and myself.


BLACK PROBLEMS ADMITTED

As Prime Minister Blair announced a new bumper handout to Africa (so long as corruption figures could be fiddled downwards), the liberal-left Guardian admitted that sub-Saharan Africa had been in economic decline since 1980 and wrote (11 iii, `Analysis', Larry Eliot): "Africa's biggest challenge, if it is to compete in the global economy, is its deficit in human capital" - though IQ itself could not be mentioned. Rather backing this up, new figures from Britain showed that, while only 20% of Asians have partners outside their race, 30% of Black females do so, and 70% of Black males - Blacks apparently taking a dim view of their chances with their fellow ethnics (11 iii, Steve Pope). {With the Grauniad prepared to make such admissions, it was not too surprising that it should be "delighted" with Britain's judges and House of Lords over their standing up to the tin-pot tyrannizing of Messrs Blair and Clarke, both busily trying to rescind habeas corpus as their nationalism-avoiding response to Islamofascist terror (11 iii, Leader).}


ANTI-RACISTS MOCKED

With a little telephoning, journalist Sean Thomas (who kindly described me as a "noted psychologist" in the Speccie two years ago) discovered that Britain's major affirmative-racist organizations (Metropolitan Police, Commission for Racial Equality) back people for hiring and promotion simply on the basis of their self-declarations of race - so frit are they of admitting that race has anything to do with biology or genetics. Thanks to ST's work, the high road for White kids to get into Oxford became clear..


`LIBERTY vs HUMAN RIGHTS' -- EXCLUSIVE --

Such was the title of a fine leader in the Sunday Times (13 iii) complaining that Britain's subscription to the European Human Rights Act (or our judges' interpretation of that subscription) was putting the courts in control of matters that should be decided by Members of Parliament or just personal choice. In the past year, `human rights' have protected the privacy of celebrities Naomi Campbell (wanting to hide her drug addiction) and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones (who had struck a lucrative deal that the only photos of their wedding would be by OK magazine); they have given British prisoners a princely œ162 million for having to use chamber pots at night; they have given gypsies common land without payment; they gave a Preston tax-evader œ10,000 because he had not been prosecuted in quite the right way; they overturned the decision of a Muslim headmistress that she didn't want her schoolgirls' bodies fully covered by the hilbab; they gave Army volunteers a right to "care" from regimental sergeant majors - warned not to taunt or tease teenage soldiers tired of doing press-ups; and they prevented several foreign Muslim males from being detained on serious warnings from the intelligence services. Correctly, the Sunday Times concluded that "the Human Rights Act has become the refuge for those with barely deserving and sometimes undeserving cases."

{Subsequently, Conservative leader Mr Michael Howard seriously courted popularity by promising to scrap Britain's Human Rights Act if it could not be sensibly amended. He called the HRA a "charter for chancers." - His move came in response to UK local authorities saying they would give up the task of moving on gypsies because of the latter's many Euro-decreed `rights.'}

{The Sun, the UK's top-circulation tabloid, quickly came out against puffed-up `human rights' for gypsies (18 iii); and, no sooner had I sent a message of support, the Sun was being discussed on BBC radio as likely to switch its support at the widely expected General Election to the Conservatives. Apparently, just as Mr Howard had found his stronger opposition in recent weeks to immigration and crime resonating with voters, the Sun had noticed higher-than-expected popular support for its anti-gypsy-`rights' campaign. Perhaps reciprocating the Sun's coming support, Mr Howard, speaking in Scotland, backed the paper's anti-`human-rights' position. He said the 1998 Human Rights Act was "a charter for chancers [that] makes a mockery of justice" by encouraging a tide of "politically correct" litigation.}


TOP LEFTIE DEPLORES "CEASELESS IMMIGRATION"

The cause of immigration realism was given an important boost as ex-New Statesman columnist Julie Burchill denounced much `asylum seeking' as just `slave labour' (Times (Review), 12 iii). "From now on," she wrote, "anyone who dismisses me as a racist because I am against ceaseless immigration to this country - by those tens of thousands of people each year who are in no peril whatsoever - and the inevitable driving down of the wages of the poorest that it brings, will be dismissed by me, in turn, as a mere stooge of the boss-class, a supporter of forced and/or slave labour and a despicable enemy of the multicoloured British working class."


DISCRIMINATION AT LAST!

It was learned from research at Oxford that the University discriminates against applicants who are female, Asian and have been educated at independent schools (Daily Telegraph, 15 iii). Evidently the University has been finding its way towards recognizing IQ as what it wants - and thus cut down on applicants who tend to over-use rote memory, hard work and cramming.


[Note from John Ray: I am getting lazy in my old age so I have not included above the few hyperlinks that Chris has given -- but you can find them at the bottom of Chris's original page here if you want to follow anything up.]


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LEFTIE PROF. BACKS STREAMING

Nine years after The g Factor proposed reintroducing school streaming (e.g. via parental "track choice" ), Emeritus Professor Ted Wragg of Exeter University, a long-standing liberal-left exponent of egalitarianism and "modern education", wrote in the Guardian (G2, 1 ii, p.5) that he had never personally felt happy conducting mixed ability classes and that it was time to get the politicians out of the matter and leave the choice of streaming to schools and their heads.

{In Ontario, a sociology professor drew applause from leftists by proposing separate schools for Black children -- who tended to get thrown out of ordinary schools for unacceptable behaviour ... }


RACE EXISTS -- FINAL SCIENTIFIC PROOF

Racial groupings match genetic profiles, Stanford study finds

STANFORD, Calif. - Checking a box next to a racial/ethnic category gives several pieces of information about people-the continent where their ancestors were born, the possible color of their skin and perhaps something about their risk of different diseases. But a new study by medical school researchers finds that the checked box also says something about a person's genetic background.

This work comes on the heels of several contradictory studies about the genetic basis of race. Some found that race is a social construct with no genetic basis while others suggested that clear genetic differences exist between people of different races.

What makes the current study, published in the February issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, more conclusive is its size. The study is by far the largest, consisting of 3,636 people who all identified themselves as either white, African-American, East Asian or Hispanic. Of these, only five individuals had DNA that matched an ethnic group different than the box they checked at the beginning of the study. That's an error rate of 0.14 percent.

Neil Risch, PhD, a UC-San Francisco professor who led the study while he was professor of genetics at Stanford, said that the findings are particularly surprising given that people in both African-American and Hispanic ethnic groups often have a mixed background. "We might expect these individuals to cross several different genetic clusters," he noted. That's not what the study found. Instead, each self-identified racial/ethnic group clumped into the same genetic cluster.

The people in this research were from 15 locations within the United States and in Taiwan. This broad distribution means that the results are representative of racial/ethnic groups throughout the United States rather than a small region that might not reflect the population nationwide.

For each person in the study, the researchers examined 326 DNA regions that tend to vary between people. These regions are not necessarily within genes but are genetic signposts on chromosomes that come in a variety of forms at the same location.
Without knowing how the participants had identified themselves, Risch's team ran the results through a computer program that grouped individuals according to patterns of the 326 signposts. This analysis could have resulted in any number of different clusters, but only four clear groups turned up. And in each case the individuals within those clusters all fell within the same self-identified racial group. "This shows that people's self-identified race/ethnicity is a nearly perfect indicator of their genetic background," Risch said.

This work could influence how medical research is carried out. Often researchers ask study participants to identify their race and ethnicity at the beginning of a clinical trial. The researchers can then follow people of different racial/ethnic groups to see which group is more likely to get a particular disease or respond well to a new treatment. This information can help future doctors know which patients may need additional disease screening or should receive one treatment over another.

But recently some researchers have moved to examining genetic differences between participants rather than relying on race and ethnicity. Their reasoning is that genetic differences may be a more precise tool for tracking groups of patients. Risch points out that this genetic analysis is costly. If people fall into the same groups using self-identified race as using genetics, then that could bring down the expanding cost of medical research.

More: Science Daily, 31 i.



HOLLAND TO TEST IMMIGRANTS

The Dutch Government laid proposals before parliament to test all non-European would-be immigrants for knowledge of Holland"s history, culture and language. In reparation, hopefuls would be sent videos to their home countries showing topless Dutch bathing beauties, Dutch homosexuals marrying and Dutch protest marches against coloured immigration. {Meanwhile Dutch lawmaker Gert Wilders, having demanded the expulsion of Muslims convicted of crimes, continued to need the protection of six bodyguards as he dealt in hiding with death threats pouring in by email and internet from irate Islamofascists (American Renaissance, ii).}


OWN-RACE AND PRO-WHITE BIASES WIDELY FOUND

In a test of unconscious bias supplied on the internet (https://implicit.harvard.edu) from Harvard University and taken by millions, multicultural propaganda was shown to have had little influence: 88% of Whites found it easier to link White faces to "good" words, compared to only 48% of Blacks. Evidence that very young children require no instruction to recognize racial differences was summarized by Steve Sailer (drawing on the 1998 work of liberal anthropology professor Lawrence Hirschfeld).


RACE REALISM -- Geldof

Aid organizer Sir Bob Geldof elicited accusations of "racism" when he said he was "profoundly bored" with the problems of Africa, where "the pace of change is far too slow and Africans excuse their own complicity in exactly the same way as our politicians"(American Renaissance, ii).



MALE BRAIN 4% FASTER

On the heels of the abysmal climb-down by Harvard President Larry Summers (above), London School researchers studying hundreds of students in Canada found neural conduction velocity (NCV) was 4% faster in the brains of males -- which they inclined to attribute to the male"s greater percentage of white (vs grey) matter required to support superior male spatial abilities (Sunday Times, 6 ii; icWales, 7 ii).

The result {by zoologistEd Reed and psychologists Philip Vernon and Andrew Johnson, and due to appear in the prominent journal Intelligence} was promptly condemned by Marxist Prof. Steven Rose and ex-Stalinist feminist and lesbian writern Bea Campbell. The diplomatic (and race-shy (e.g. Diary, ii 2003) Harvard professor Steven Pinker applied his talents to suggesting that his boss, Summers, may just have been a teeny-weeny bit wimpish in his multiple apologies to feminists for suggesting that human psychological sex differences might just a tiny bit possibly be genetic.



PHONICS TEACHING HELPS KIDS BEST

The House of Commons education select committee was told by researchers that children in Clackmannanshire taught to analyse words into the 42 basic sounds of the English language were a full 11 months ahead in reading by age 11. {A phonic teaching scheme, "Speak"n"Spell Alphabet", was offered to McDougall NewsLetter readers in 1999.}


HARVARD CIVIL WAR HOTS UP

The feminastie torturers of President Lawrence Summers (see January Diary) got new ammunition in a transcript of a talk by Summers early in January to a private meeting of economists. The document showed Summers had noted (as had the London School by 1985) that human females show a narrower range of scoring on many variables -- e.g. height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, and scientific ability. He had also shocked some of his "academics" by observing that there aren"t many Jews in farming, Whites in basketball or Catholics in investment banking (ABC News, 19 ii; Daily Telegraph, 19 ii). Summers also suggested that married academic women may be rather workshy by Harvard standards and wondered whether Harvard"s preferential hiring of minorities was an unfailing success. Summers' flirtation with genetic explanations followed on the heels of top Finnish economist Tatu Vanhanen backing low IQ as the explanation for Black Africa's problems. Summers was sent messages of condemnation from the presidents of Princeton, Stanford and MIT, but not from the president of Yale. He was defended by leading articles in the Washington Post, 19 ii, the Daily Telegraph, 19 ii, the Financial Times, 19 ii, and Business Investors" Daily, 19 ii, and by columnists Kathleen Parker in the Orlando Sentinel and Steve Sailer in VDare (20 ii); Newsweek called Summers" speech "ill-advised" but noted that undergraduates at and investors in Harvard had proved supportive; but Britain"s dear old Grauniad backed the feminasties, if only in its "Education" section (21 ii) and the Washington Post felt obliged to air irate feminazies claiming that "Summers's comments were without scientific merit" (21 ii).

{For sex differences and their biological bases, see my Quotes XII.}


LEFTIST FACES DOWN PEECEE

Markedly braver before the modern Inquisition than President Summers (above) was London"s elected mayor, Ken Livingstone. After he had (apparently in his cups) criticized a pestering Jewish journalist working for the right-of-centre Evening Standard as behaving "like a concentration camp guard", retractions were called for by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, by P.M. Tony Blair and by the gay rights group Outrage! and Livingstone was to be "looked into" by the Commission for Racial Equality. Unfazed, however, Livingstone refused to issue any apology (in this very different from the effusively placatory Summers) saying he didn"t see why he should "say words I do not believe" (thus providing quite a model to the cowards of British and American academia who have long declined to speak the truth about race differences, sex differences and paedophilia).

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