PEECEE GETTING COSTLY In a blow against political correctness, the Crown Prosecution Service agreed to pay 100K pounds to Channel 4 TV for having libelled the station as `racist' (as Channel 4 had gone to court to establish) (Daily Telegraph, 15 v). Channel 4 had broadcast an expose of mad Mueslis in mosques denigrating women, Jews and homosexuals, provoking inquiries by West Midlands Police; but the authorities were quickly taken in by agents of the mosques and PeeCee and decided the easiest route was to prosecute Channel 4 itself -- for "incitement to racial hatred."
In the authorities' apology, wrung out of them after a year of them having Channel 4 on the rack, it was admitted there was "no evidence that the broadcaster or programme makers had misled the audience or that the programme was likely to encourage or incite criminal activity" - an important admission in itself which probably clarified the alarmingly vague notion of `incitement to racial hatred.'
VICE-CHANCELLOR ADMITS UNI STANDARDS `THREATENED' BY EXPANSION AND DIVERSIFICATION In an unusual admission from Britain's `liberal'-left-dominated luniversities, the Principal of highly regarded Manchester University, Professor Alan Gilbert, said that recent years of admitted poorly-qualified `working class' youngsters (deprived of grammar schools even if bright) to oblige loonily egalito-environmentalist Chancellor/P.M. Grumpy Gordon Brown had led to a "grave threat" to standards and tone at his establishment (Daily Telegraph, 15 v) - though, like others of his statist stripe, he seemed to think the problem might be solved by giving him more taxpayers' money..
MULTICULTIDOOM While Britain's political parties piously resolved to ignore English and Scottish nationalist sentiment and Europe - deluding itself that it could solve the rampant ethnic hostilities of the Balkans by offering E.U. membership to all - despatched the Queen in a headscarf to assure Muslim Turkey of a warm welcome as what would be the largest E.U. nation, displaced Rwandans (in the Congo) told the Guardian (16 v) they were preparing their drug-fuelled children to exact revenge on the Tutsi `cockroaches' (who had defied the genocide of the 1970s and 1990s against them by taking control in Rwanda), government-housing north Burma treated cyclone-ravaged south Burma with contempt, and Israeli Jews -- celebrating sixty years of their own race realism -- applauded President George Dubya Bush as he implied presidential hopeful Borat Osama was an `appeaser' for wanting to talk to the `Nazis' of Iran and their rampant fellow-Shitites in the Lebanon.
BERLUSCONI SWOOPS ON SHANTY TOWNS In a challenge to the E.U.'s peecee-multiculturalism, Italy's new right-wing government - prompted by Mafia-led Neapolitans vigorously attacking `Romanian' shanty-town dwellers who had tried to steal a 6-month-old baby (Times, 16 v) -- arrested and/or deported some 400 suspected illegal immigrants (mainly gypsies from India via Romania), got Libya to arrest 250 Africans embarking for Italy, brought in 15 Romanian police to help control gypsy crime, and introduced legislation to tighten Italy's border controls (International Herald Tribune, 15 v).
Spain's `pink' socialist Government (including many 2nd-rate-looking women, not up to Berlusconi's standards - though at least not the dregs of womanhood on offer in English and Scottish politics) replied by saying Berlusconi should seek mental treatment - except that it probably would not work. Berlusconi responded with a tough package of measures allowing immigrants' living conditions to be checked before permanent residence was granted and allowing the confiscation of properties let to unauthorized immigrants (Guardian, 22 v).
By 29 v, the Mail on Sunday was `shocked' to report that 75% of Italians wanted rid of the Roma gypsies and that children as young as 9 had done drawings in school of flag-waving youngsters celebrating the firebombing of the (deserted) Roma shacks which had housed the would-be baby-snatcher.
SEARCH BEGINS FOR AFRICA'S BRIGHTEST.. After years of wasted expenditures on the Dark Continent by governments, international quangos and charities, Cambridge physicists Stephen Hawking and Neil Turok announced they were linking up with assorted Nobel laureates and billionaires to identify "bright" young Black kids and bring them on (Times, 11 v). {None dared state publicly which IQ tests would be used in this otherwise promising-sounding but most likely doomed exercise. - see AmRen, 14 v, where one contributor observed it was evidently easier to overcome motor neurone disease than to overcome egalitarianism.
Strangely, the quixotic Stephen Hawking -- perhaps by then in the early stage of senile dementia -- seemed to have reflected but little on the zillion dollar sums already spent by the USA on Black education without producing a single mathematical, philosophical or classical-music genius. Perhaps he had never even read the 1997 talk on race and IQ that I gave at his Cambridge college, Gonville & Caius - sadly, illness had prevented him joining me at the college's high table that night and from hearing my debate with the New Statesman's non-reading Black columnist Darcus Howe.}
PAEDOPHILE PLAYGROUND By May, 2008, Headlands School, Bridlington had no less than eleven members of staff (some female) under arrest or suspension for `inappropriate' sexual messages or dealings with pupils; in addition the school had recently lost three staff who received jail or suspended sentences for sexual relations with female pupils (Daily Telegraph, 16 v 2008). Some thought paedophilia would prove to have been rampant for years in the famous seaside resort which had once given its name to the Bridlington Agreement, whereby trade unions agreed not to actively poach each other's members (Hull Daily Mail, 17 v 2008). It was likely that peecee-feminism's paedohysteria had been slow to spread to the more robust outlying areas of north-east England, full of ex-miners, ex-shipbuilders and ex-fisherfolk. The school, the sexual mini-scandals of which dated back to 1984, was said to be `in special measures' (Red Orbit, 17 v) and was evidently under total curfew to keep newsies at bay.
ENVIRONMENTOHYSTERIA REFUTED Contrary to the dire predictions of `experts' in psychology and psychiatry concerning the long-endungeoned daughter and grandchildren of Papa Fritzl (a maniac for sex thanks to regular doses, simultaneously, of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra - `making you like a bull,' he told friends), within weeks of release the three prisoners were doing well, thoroughly enjoying each other's company (and that of Frizl's wife), Austrian food, motor cars, trees, sunshine etc. etc. - they were specially delighted to find McDonald's and its hamburgers were for real (Sun, 17 v).
PAEDOHYSTERIA PUNCTURED Police in Jersey admitted that the `piece of bone from a child's skull' on which they had hinged their hunt for murderous paedophiles of c. 1980 (see earlier, e.g. February) had been found by Oxford scientists to be definitely not a bone, definitely not from a human skull, and probably a `piece of wood or coconut shell' (Sunday Mail, 18 v; Spiked, 19 v). Police had kept the embarrassing finding secret for five weeks so as not to weaken public enthusiasm for their 160-detective-strong enquiries. Elite leftist organs like the Grauniad and Bolshevik Broadcasting Company had been happy to speculate, on the basis of the 50P-sized `bone' fragment that as many as six or more children had been murdered by the paedophiles of Haut de la Garenne's one-time children's home.
BLACK-ON-BLACK XENOPHOBIA Little heeding their country's post-apartheid official image of tolerant multiculturalism and embrace of diversity, Johannesburg's Black mobs turned on Black immigrants (many from Black-dictator-wrecked `Zimbabwe', but also from Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Congo and Somalia), killing at least 24, making 13,000 flee for their lives and resulting in 250 arrests by police for crimes including rape (BBC, 19 v, 20 v). After several days police using water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas had regained control of what the San Francisco Chronicle (19 v) called the "war zone" of central Johannesburg; but attacks on immigrants spread to some twelve townships and to Cape Town and Durban (in `KwaZulu-Natal' province). Zulus had long blamed South Africa's five million immigrants since independence for crime, sex attacks, their own unemployment (in a country running a 40% unemployment rate) and in general the failure of Black-run South Africa to make the progress that Blacks and Black-lovers had expected. Some speculated that the mobs had been given tip-offs by police as to where immigrants lived.
By 21 v, 42 immigrants were dead, 16,000 were displaced and police had made 400 arrests. The army was called out as violence reached the Zulu heartland town of Umbilo, where hundreds attacked a Nigerian-frequented bar, and then Cape Town. Other African began organizing fleets of buses to evacuate thousands of their nationals. Part of the reason for the xenophobia was that South Africans discovered that, though they were on a waiting list for a home, a foreigner who had taken advantage of corruption in the system might be renting out as many as four homes. Condemning the "blind violence" of the attacks, the Dakar-based Pan-African human rights organisation RADDHO said they dealt a heavy blow to Africa's leadership and image.
PEECEE GOONERY - NEW DEPTHS Free speech - under serious assault in Britain since I was hammered in 1996 for defending scientific racism - took a new blow as London police summonsed a teenager for calling Scientology a `cult' during a demo (Guardian, 20 v). Police claimed the word `cult' was unduly "threatening"; but the teenager refused to back down, quoting a 1984 High Court ruling from Mr Justice Latey, in which the judge described the Church of Scientology as a "cult" which was "corrupt, sinister and dangerous." {Eventually the Crown Prosecution Service told the peecee-propagandized police goons to desist.}
RACE REALISM RESURFACES Just a year after fat BigBro celebrity idiot Jade Goody had hit trouble for `racism' in India for calling beautiful Bollywood filmstar Shilpa Shetty a "papadum," the Indians themselves revealed their own racism as their cricketing authorities banned England from using negress cheerleaders (one possibly a real babe), saying they only wanted to see "beautiful White girls" (Sun, 22 v).
In the Black-run powder keg of South Africa, unemployed Blacks, having displaced some 100,000 foreigners (many Zimbabwean and Mozambican - see earlier), turned their attentions to harassing and murdering Indians, alleged to employ foreign labour when not actually foreigners themselves (TimesNow, 24 v). But the ruling African National Congress party vowed to "retake the streets" from criminal looters and arsonists who had been taking its name in vain. By 27 v, deaths among immigrants were estimated at 60, serious injuries at 470, shops burned out or looted at 600, and arrests among rioters at 1,400.
ANC President Jacob Zuma - normally thought to possess `the common touch' -- was shouted down at times when he tried to address 4,000 Black South Africans in a shanty town to the east of Johannesburg. "We are looking to make you our president, so beware. If you are a stumbling block, we are going to kick you away," a man warned, as the crowd erupted in applause. Only a fortnight earlier, Zuma had been pontificating about what he saw as the party's God-given right to rule. "Even God expects us to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed," he said in a speech near Cape Town. "It is even blessed in heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back." But near-one-party state ANC-led South Africa, which had lived off liberation theology since its 1994 inception, was running on empty.
South Africa's problem with excessive cheap immigrant Black labour had arisen partly because of the casting aside, as South Africa's `pan-African' Blacks took over in 1994, of previous legislation by the White apartheid government limiting Black immigrant inflow; and partly because of the equally pan-African-motivated policy of allowing Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe to take over White-run farms and this destroy his country's economy, resulting in an outflow of some 2-3 million emigrants to South Africa.
A graphic account of the horrors and hatreds of Black-run South Africa was provided by Socialist Worker (29 v) - while blaming the squalor and brutality on capitalism, neoliberalism, nationalism etc..
IQ-SES LINK INFURIATES EDUCOBABBLERS Evolutionary psychiatrist Bruce Charlton, a c.50-year-old Reader in Psychology at the University of Newcastle with a background in medicine and physiology, shocked Government ministers, the National Union of Students,* the University and College Union, the Warden of New College Oxford, Professor Robert Sternberg of Tufts University, Scotsman readers, Times Higher readers and even a majority of the Daily Mail's readers by asserting (in an article to appear in Times Higher, 23 v) that the children of the rich were chiefly over-represented in Oxbridge because of their higher inherited IQs - but was stoutly defended by the London School's Emeritus Professor Richard Lynn** who said the causal role of IQ had been known for eighty years (Daily Mail, 22 v; Guardian, 22 v).
{I emailed Dr Charlton offering help and pointing out that my quotes about IQ and SES were still on the net
here. A Guardian correspondent wheeled out two frothing leftists from London's Institute of Education to deny Charlton's claim that IQ was partly a function of "innate endowment" (24 v); an objector surfaced in the correspondence column of Glasgow's Daily Record (22 v); and humorist Ron Liddle rubbished Charlton for the Funday Times as if he were the hated Sir Cyril Burt (25 v).
But support came in the American National Review (22 v) and, from the north-east of England, where people should know something about working class IQ, the Shields Gazette reported 66% support from its readers for Dr Charlton (24 v). In the subsequent Times Higher (30 v), complaints against Charlton's alleged pessimism** were headed up by his own Vice-Chancellor, one Chris Brink, a South African mathematician and `diversity' champion, who said Charlton's views "in no way" reflected those of Newcastle University; but Edinburgh University Psychology's Wendy Johnson - acquired from the Tom Bouchard stable in Minnesota - agreed with Charlton's every point, wanting only to add that universities could abandon selection by academic ability if they themselves so wished.}
* The National Union of Students branded Dr Charlton's arguments "wrong-headed, irresponsible and insulting". Gemma Tumelty, president of the NUS, said: "Of course, social inequality shapes people's lives long before they leave school, but the higher education sector cannot be absolved of its responsibility to ensure that students from all social backgrounds are given the opportunity to fulfil their potential. "The simple fact is that many talented individuals from poor backgrounds are currently not given the same opportunities as those from more privileged backgrounds. This problem will not be addressed as long as academics such as Bruce Charlton are content to accept the status quo and do nothing to challenge the inherent class bias in education."
But, in Times Higher, one John Harvey admirably replied: "The reaction to this story is absolutely fascinating because most of the responses are along the lines of "how dare he say it", rather than "his data is wrong". Individual differences in IQ have been shown to be partly determined by biology rather than being wholly sociological (best estimates are 60% - 80% biology.) There is also plenty of data showing a high correlation between IQ scores and achieved position on the social ladder. It follows that higher class parents will tend (note the word 'tend') to be brighter and therefore produce brighter kids. As a result they in turn will find it easier to get into the most prestigious institutions. Charlton's sin appears to have been to broach the subject in the first place. He shatters illusions. It is so much more comforting to believe that we humans are above mere biology and that the modern managerial state can make anything of anybody given enough resources the right mission statement and a thick enough policy document."
** Lynn said (Cherwell, 30 v)"The facts of higher IQs in higher SES groups is universally accepted by psychologists. [Charlton] stated a non-PC truth. It was an emperor-has-no-clothes statement -- something everyone (experts, anyway) knows is true but dare not say."
*** Predictably trotting out Jim Flynn (but see
here) and Anders Ericsson (but see
here - FIND `the Watsonian Ericsson').
APARTHEID PREFERRED Despite three years of Government tosh about moving on from multiculturalism towards integrationism, the people of William McDougall's home town of Oldham turned out to have been voting with their feet to segregate their schools along racial lines at a rate of knots (Oldham Advertiser, 21 v).
PAEDOHYSTERIA PASTED Texan CPS authorities had had no right to remove more than 400 children from a polygamist Mormon sect's ranch (see earlier), the state's appeals court ruled (Daily Telegraph, 23 &24 v).The ruling against feminastie abusomaniacs, which followed an appeal by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was likely to scupper one of the biggest `child custody' cases in US neosocialist state-tyrannical history. The Texas court decided that the state had not provided sufficient grounds for the "extreme" measure of removing all children, from babies to teenagers, from the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado. The sect's children -- the girls, like their mothers, wearing old-fashioned prairie dresses - had been removed en masse by police during a grotesque raid that began on April 3.
An informed guess at what was going on pointed to CPS's desire to have at least *one* blonde-haired/blue-eyed client in their drug/violence counseling programs which were otherwise just a sea of Katrina refugee offenders.
RUSSIA TRIES POPULATION BOOST With Russia's population declining at a rate of 0.7M per year, the Kremlin announced it would give an `Order of Parental Honour' to women bearing relatively many children (Daily Telegraph, 26 v) - though details of how or whether awards would be targeted on married, White, fluent-Russian-speaking families remained to be seen.
SCOTTISH SEX-SLAVE SURVIVOR On the heels of the Papa Fritzl case in Austria, a 38-year-old Glasgow woman (living happily with a partner and the pair's two children in Clydebank), revealed how she had had incest forced on her 800 times (over 16 years from age 11) and been `virtually imprisoned' in a string of council houses by her father - by 2008 serving a 3-year sentence for incest (Sun, 27 v). (Papa John Macmillan's plan to claim welfare benefit for his daughter's children had gone awry as not a single child remained alive from the pair's six incestuous pregnancies.)
STOP-AND-SEARCH GETS GOVT BACKING As pressures grew - with the teen knife crime killing one youth a week - to rescind the Macpherson Report's restrictions on police stopping and searching possible young criminals at will, even a NuLabour minister, Tony McNulty, felt obliged to slap down the anxieties of loopy `children's commissioner' Prof. Albert Aynsley-Green that returning to pre-1997 ways would upset Blacks too much (Daily Telegraph, 27 v).
MULTICULTURALISM SPLINTERS Probably foretelling the end of the American Jewish community's century-long political courtship of Blacks, and thus the end of highly-financed multicultiloonery, would-be presidential candidate Boring Obama linked with longstanding Carter-backing Democrat foreign affairs expert Zeb Brzezinski in attacking the `Jewish lobby' for its unthinking support for Israeli governments (Daily Telegraph, 27 v).
Another straw in a similar wind was Jewish crossbench peeress, Baroness Ruth Deech, writing to the Telegraph (29 v) to complain that Britain's left-dominated University and College Union had apparently resumed its efforts to achieve some kind of academic boycott of Israeli universities and scholars.
U.N.-PROVIDED CARERS FLOP `Peacekeepers' provided for Africa at top expense in smart white mini-tanks by the United Nations Organization turned out to have been a poor replacement for local paedophiles, with an Ivory Coast 11-year girl and family witnesses claiming she had been raped in one afternoon by no less than 11 Pakistani sky-blue-helmeted `soldiers' (Daily Telegraph, 27 v). {Just how Pakistani had been able to wangle U.N. funding for its army - permanently unable and/or unwilling to flush out beardy Mr O.K. Bin Liner from its North-West Frontier provice - remained unclear.}
Telegraph TOLERATES BNP Despite hysteria at the Grauniad (28 v), the Daily Telegraph (surprisingly bravely) stood by its having allowed BNP London Assemblyman Richard Barnbrook blogspace which he predictably used to criticize immigration and political correctness.
