LEFT INDICTED
Reflecting on the dishonest and tyrannical Bangladeshi regime that had been exposed and ended in east London (q.v.), the Observer’s Nick Cohen remarked the ignominy of the British left (26 iv):
"Come on, admit it – it’s not just in the East End you see these tricks played. The postmodern universities and identity-obsessed scour speech for the smallest hint of bigotry, real or imagined. They seize on it – and with a whoop of triumph – cry that the mask has slipped to expose the true face of prejudice. Surely you have noticed, too, that in the paranoia that follows, careerists and charlatans flourish.
Do not forget either that [Bangladeshi millionaire] Rahman at all times enjoyed the mulish support of Ken Livingstone and elements of what now passes for the British left.
The BBC, the Daily Telegraph, Private Eye and Ted Jeory, a fantastic Tower Hamlets reporter, who exposed on his blog the corruption stories that local papers wouldn’t print, fought back.
But with honourable exceptions, London’s leftwing press ignored the stink in its own backyard and dismissed the accusations against Rahman as evidence of a “deep substrate of” – you guessed it – “racism”.
You might think that at least the Labour party stood firm. But it left it to four Tower Hamlet residents to take on the huge financial risk of fighting Rahman. The judge wondered whether “like so many others who have come up against Mr Rahman, the party was not prepared to risk the accusations of racism and Islamophobia that would have been bound to follow any petition”.
One day, leftists and the Labour party will pay a price for their neglect and double standards. As it is, the price is being paid by others. Despite bordering on the opulent City, the East End of London is one of the poorest places in Britain. Many of its residents have no education; large numbers of Bangladeshis cannot speak English. They are wide open for hucksters to target. Too many stood back while they were shaken down, while money intended for them was diverted and their right to vote subverted.
In the onlookers’ indifference we can find, at last, an authentic white racism amid all the phoniness: the racism that believes the immigrant poor deserve no better."
Nick Cohen won the 2015 European Press Prize commentator award
The Metropolitan Police took the point and said they would at last initiate the inquiries into criminal wrongdoing by Rahman and his Mueslis which they had declined to undertake across the previous three years.
ELECTORAL LUNACY COULD DELIVER
So! Yukay’s daftest General Election of a century would deliver a result of a kind by May 8th: a new crop of MPs, changed by fully a third thanks to the vagaries of the first-past-the-post voting system, would begin to make occasional appearances in the ‘tea rooms’ [bars] of the rat-infested Palace of Westminster and resume the self-appointed effort of the House of Commons to bankrupt the country and rid it of Christianity, to annoy as many foreign powers as possible (especially Russia, Spain, Israel and the Argentine), to wreck education by insisting a semblance of it be endlessly inflicted on the low-IQ and to get rid of the House of Lords (Britain’s only elite body of the slightest constitutional significance).
Yes! Exemplifying the worst horrors of which any had deemed democracy capable, Parliament had for 150 years been filling itself with the property-less, the spouse-less and the profession-less. Voted for by only some two thirds of the electorate according to incomprehensible constituencies of ‘safe’ seats where most votes were pointless, modern MPs provided a model of uselessness, their own votes ‘whipped’, their powers less than those of a town councillor and their motivations being to get a job on the government payroll and/or to prepare lucrative ‘directorships’ for their retirement.
To this bizarre exercise, voters (median age 55) decided how to spend the next generation’s money by opting for what they might think was a prime minister, a cabinet, a party or an unheard-of MP (in fact the last) in a system where the winning option was chosen by only 25% of the electorate. So weird had Britain’s ‘system’ of parliamentary democracy become that, of the party leaders appearing in nationally televised ‘debates,’ a half were not even MPs (Greens, Ukip, Scotnats, Welshnats).
And yet! . . . This ludicrous system had actually been robust enough to deliver in the past half-century reasonable trials of the main political nostrums on offer. Socialism had brought hope after devastating wars even if it racked up more debt; capitalism had yielded growth even if the boom-bust casino cycle was not abolished; and political correctness had provided an internationalist piety and job creation programme to replace that of traditional religion even if bringing equally traditional tyranny and corruption.
So what would be next? Well, with three points of the attitudinal compass having been tried since 1950, it was arguably the turn of nationalism. That, at least, was what polls found Scotland to have decided in its sensational shift of voting preference from Labour to SNP (or CNP – Celtic NP); and the essentially English nationalism (and healthy racism) of Ukip seemed to be pulling in 18% support south of the border despite the determined effort of Westminster LibLabCon to demonize it (indeed, to sack or silence any who so much as whispered its name).
Yes! It could well be that the General Election would prove the beginning of the end of Britain’s three-party farce of quasi-idealism and the installation of Merrie England Mark II – and under who else but Balliol’s ‘Bonking’ Boris Johnson (hopefully guided by the practicality of Australia’s Queensman Abbott)? . . .
The coincidence of a nationalistic Election result with a Royal birth on May 2nd (of a fourth-in-line to the throne) would surely make the occasion especially auspicious.
{However, despite being given the gifts of A/As pouring into Europe across the Med, of jihadists advancing in Syria and of Black rioting wounding 15 police in curfewed central Baltimore, Ukip’s leader Nigel Garage – revealed as suffering health agonies -- declined to cash his chips, thus leaving English race realists somewhat in the lurch pro tem., amused only by Garage troubling to call SNP guru Fish a “racist” as if that were a criticism, and by the scores of long-legged, long-haired, wasp-waisted White Russian [Siberian] weenies who paraded in teeny bikinis for BBC3 TV as they rehearsed to model for the international fashion industry and remind the West of how the fillies of the Russian nation were uninterested in Muesli practices of covering up. . . .
As if leaping to Garage’s aid, a leading Eurowhalla Rumpy-Pumpy Junckedher decreed that the UK would have to increase tenfold its admissions of “the poor” of Africa – for “if they can’t use the front door they’ll break the windows” (D.Telegraph, 30 iv); but this prompted only a squeak from Garage about the risks of terrorism rather than any spelling-out of the risks of vagabondage, pilfering, disease, illiteracy, sorcery and stupidity posed by all but the cream of the cream of Black ‘asylum seekers’, spouses and sprogs.}
{The more exciting electoral scene in Scotland was correctly analysed by the Telegraph’s Alan Cochrane (30 iv): the stupendous rise of the SNP reflected a range of ‘anti- sentiments – anti-Tory, anti-Labour, anti-London, anti-English, anti-American etc.
Yes: after decades of seeing socialism and capitalism discredited, and the UK pseudo-managed by fat cats from organizations in business and government which changed their names annually and had no contactable addresses or phones, both Scots and English sought change (the Scots having the additional motivation of Labour over two generations failing to solve Glasgow’s problems); but the Scots had a plausible party to which to turn (SNP) whereas the English had only the covert racists ooops “fruitcakes, nutters and loonies” of Ukip who had been successfully demonized by the metropolitan peecee elite.}
UNHAPPY WELFARISM
The publication of financial journalist James Bartholomew’s The Welfare of Nations was greeted with enthusiasm in the Telegraph, which gave it a one-page spread (27 iv); and at Amazon Books Professor of Education James Tooley (U.Newcastle) wrote (21 iv):
"This is a superb book from the acclaimed author of The Welfare State We're In. Whatever aspect of welfare troubles - or appeals to - you, you'll find it forensically but engagingly examined. I learnt so much about the history and geography of welfare, much to disturb, but also some intriguingly positive examples. Bartholomew is entertaining as always, but is prognosis for the welfare state is serious and needs to be addressed by all concerned with the role of government in our lives. I cannot recommend this book too highly."
Essentially, Bartholomew dismissed efforts to link unhappiness to inequality as biased, feeble or both; and instead pointed to researches finding unhappiness linked to state welfarism destroying jobs and families – though the direction of causation probably needed more proof and, in particular, examination of whether poor personality and intelligence might be doing the bulk of the causal work.
RACE-ROOTEDNESS AGAIN
People trying to come to terms with the awesome earthquake in Nepal rapidly found that the country’s status as ‘one of the poorest on earth’ – and thus ill-equipped to cope with horror – was due substantially to long-term ethnic tensions between the country’s Mongoloid and Aryan peoples which culminated early-C21 in fighting between the more Buddhist Tibet-originated folk of the Himalayas who had gone communist and the more Hindu Indian-originated folk of the southern plains who retained affection for monarchy.
The southerners were people who had been able to afford to get away from the Muslim advance into northern India and regarded themselves as of higher caste, though the two groups mixed in Katmandu with repeatedly bloody results inimical to economic development.
GREENS LOWER THEIR BABIES’ g
IQ played a useful role for British researchers examining the somewhat unhealthy effects of drinking ‘organic milk’ – as opposed to today’s normal iodine-supplemented milk which usually supplies 40% of the body’s iodine, thus preventing the low-intelligence thyroxene deficiency that yields goitre (D.Telegraph, 28 iv, p.1; D.Mail, 28 iv).
WHISTLERS TO FACE COPS
As the latest development of its merry modern pseudo-religious censoriousness, Britain added to its paedohysteria, internet monitoring, hacking hysteria, persecution for date rape, failing to clean a dog’s teeth and Islamophobia, and banning of “transphobic” language by 3-yr-olds a new job for police (already too busy to find thieves and burglars): to investigate with all solemnity accusations of wolf-whistling (D.Telegraph, 30 iv).
US FOOTIES (‘JOCKS’) NEED IQ
While the modest IQs of British soccer players were well known – and mentioned (Guardian, 26 iv) by Black footie star Sol Cambell -- players of American football had long been selected by IQ tests since they were believed to require intelligence. The Wonderlic testing organization specially mentioned endorsement by the US National Football League on its website.
"NFL Testing Provides Valuable Lesson for All Employers
NFL draft picks have taken the Wonderlic test for years because team owners need to know if their million dollar player has the cognitive skills to be a star on the field.
What does the NFL know about hiring that most companies don’t? They know that regardless of the position, proof of intelligence plays a profound role in the success of every individual on the team. It’s not enough to have physical ability. The coaches understand that players have to be smart and think quickly to succeed on the field, and the closer they are to the ball the smarter they need to be. That’s why, every potential draft pick takes the Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT) at the combine to prove he does--or doesn’t—have the brains to win the game.
The WPT is a short form intelligence test that measures players’ ability to think on their feet, follow directions, and make effective decisions under the pressure of a time clock. It was originally developed in 1937 as a tool to quantify the mental abilities of potential job candidates and today more than 2.5 million job applicants in companies across the nation are given the Wonderlic test as part of the hiring process.
The test is especially popular with larger organizations because it’s quick and easy to administer and delivers accurate information about candidates’ intelligence. “In just twelve minutes, they have quantifiable data about whether candidates can learn new skills, think effectively, and make important decisions under pressure,” says Michael Callans, president of Wonderlic Consulting, the Libertyville, IL based publisher of the test.
The first use of the WPT in the NFL was by Tom Landry of the Dallas Cowboys in the early 70s, who took a scientific approach to finding players. He believed players who could use their minds where it counted had a strategic advantage over the other teams. He was right, and the test has been used at the combine ever since.
Each year sports writers joke about jocks taking intelligence tests, but it’s a lesson to any business owner who is about to invest a sizable chunk of money into a new hire. The NFL spends millions of dollars on first round draft picks. Given the investment, they need all the information they can get about players’ physical and mental skills. The Wonderlic delivers that value. It’s the only cognitive measure used by the NFL, and players’ Wonderlic scores can determine where they end up in the draft and which players get the million dollar salaries.
“Selecting a new quarterback is like hiring a president for a company,” Callans says. “They need the intelligence to think on their feet, evaluate all of their options and understand the impact their actions will have on the outcome of the game.”
Wonderlic helps team owners make the best selections by identifying which players have the mental strength to lead their team to victory.
“History shows that the brighter a person is, the more likely he is to be successful,” Callans says. “Whether they are on a football field or in a boardroom, smarter people are resourceful and they don’t make a lot of mistakes.”
For the NFL, years of testing shows that the higher a player scores on the Wonderlic, the more likely he is to be in the starting lineup—for any position. “There is no other reasonable explanation for the difference in test scores between starting players and those that sit on the bench,” Callans says. “Intelligence plays a role in how well they play the game.”
That lesson translates well for corporate use. “Whether you are hiring a mailroom clerk or a CEO, a defensive lineman or a quarterback, intelligence is an accurate determiner of success,“ Callans says. “Smart people achieve more, they are better leaders, and they add greater value to the company.”
Unlike soccer, American football – like rugby football -- used hands as much as feet and thus did not require the mixed-footedness that is so helpful in soccer but tends to be associated with low IQ.
NORDIC NICENESS
Though Whites continued to invite trouble by failing to shoot Black rioters in burning Baltimore and to close the Muslim boat-building enterprises around the Mediterranean, the results of the 2015 World Happiness Report came in – and 98%-White Switzerland came top (Yahoo! Health, 24 iv). The report was based on data from 158 countries with regard to six factors: GDP per capita, absence of corruption, generosity, social support, freedom, and healthy life expectancy. The report was released by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
The inhabitants of the 10 happiest countries were (or had been) overwhelmingly European:
1. Switzerland
2. Iceland
3. Denmark
4. Norway
5. Canada
6. Finland
7. The Netherlands
8. Sweden
9. New Zealand
10. Australia
The bottom 10 countries in the ranking were in Africa or the Muslim-dominated Middle East
Amusingly, the happiness of White countries could not be attributed simply to years of successful imperialism and plundering of A/A areas: the most happy (White) countries had not engaged in much plunder in recent centuries, and the least happy (A/A) countries were not those which had been notably invaded or pillaged by Whites.
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