EDITOR:
CHRIS BRAND (cbrand@cycad.com) --
THE BRITISH ACADEMIC PSYCHOLOGIST WHO DECRIED IGNORACISM, ENVIRONMENTOSTALINISM,
FEMINAZISM AND PAEDOHYSTERIA (THE MAIN INGREDIENTS OF INNOCUOUS-SOUNDING
'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS').
GUESS
WHAT HAPPENED? CHRIS BRAND'S BOOK, The g Factor,
WAS DE-PUBLISHED by Wiley
Inc. [New York] (1996) AND BRAND WAS FIRED
by Edinburgh University (1997) (and stayed fired after an internal
Appeal, 1998). BUT EVENTUALLY, FACED
WITH THE UK's PUBLIC COURTS, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY COUGHED UP
THE MAXIMUM PAYOUT BRAND COULD HAVE OBTAINED BY LEGAL ACTION!
Latest Press: Evening News [Edinburgh] 9 ii '99;
Scotsman 12 vi '99; Daily Record 2 ix '99; Evening
News 28 ix '99; Times 29 x '99.
For 'Fourth Way' NeoLibeREALISM : liberty, realism, individualism, contract and community-choice. Yes: kids should choose their classes; adults should choose the type of marriage they want; democratic countries should have cantons that genuinely differ; and the one million Black men (and one thousand 'paedophiles') who make up a half of America's prison Gulag should be offered generously assisted transportation to any countries that would like to have them. NOT COERCION, NOT 'COMPASSION', JUST CHOICE!
JANUARY 5
THIS WEEK: New
Year Neosocialism comes to grief.
The USA does not want its world-wide imperium to resemble South African apartheid -- with emaciated outcast Blacks clamouring at the barbed wire for admission and/or political influence. So it admits migrants who are prepared to scale high fences, dodge armed guards and risk a watery grave. At first, such migrants are second-class citizens at risk of deportation from the USA, so they make especially obliging workers; and if they don't behave they can join America's one million Black men in jail or even get put down by electricity or chemicals at the rate of one each week. All this seems better than admitting people according to IQ, English language competence or knowledge of Western culture -- for such valuable migrants would compete for elite jobs which America wants to keep for its own longer-established residents. However, it is far from clear that the USA has chosen a policy that can work. It may blether endlessly about its 'antiracism' and control the speech on campuses and in offices of those who prefer a White or at least high-IQ America. But now it is itself being accused of racism, as will happen increasingly to Western countries which run muddled and hypocritical immigration policies. We are all racists now -- despite years of trying to lumber only low-IQ Whites with that designation.
MIAMI -- Miami's Haitian community has condemned a U.S. government
decision to repatriate hundreds of Haitian migrants to their impoverished
Caribbean homeland (average per caput annual income $250), calling
U.S. immigration policy ``racist.'' Following two days of angry
protests over the treatment of a boatload of migrants from Haiti,
activists pledged to step up pressure on Washington to change
a policy that treats Haitian and Cuban migrants differently.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service late Sunday ordered a group of 407 Haitian, Dominican
and Chinese migrants found crammed on to a grounded 60-foot freighter
off the Florida coast on New Year's Day sent back to Haiti.
``We were hoping that in the new millennium
this country would recognized the rights of every person, black
and white,'' said Marleine Bastien, president of Haitian Women
of Miami. ``But it seems they have decided to continue their racist
policy.'' Callers to Miami radio stations angrily raised the case
of Elian Gonzalez, a 6-year-old Cuban boy who was found floating
on an inner tube at sea on Thanksgiving Day and was immediately
brought to shore and turned over to Cuban relatives who had already
escaped to Florida. ``The way INS has treated Elian probably gave
hope to other people, especially Haitians who have a tradition
of going to sea to escape terrible conditions at home,'' said
Herntz Phanord, host of the Creole-language radio program Haiti
Antennes Plus on WLQY. ``We are being treated differently for
the reason of our skin color.'' Hundreds of Haitians and black
Americans demonstrated in front of the Miami Beach Coast Guard
station, claiming the Haitian boat people had reached dry land
before being put back to sea by coastguards.
Sweden's policy of boosting coloured immigration is having predictable results.
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STOCKHOLM -- Swedish police were questioning up to 50 witnesses
Monday over the murder of a 19-year-old man of Turkish origin,
believed to be the latest in a wave of racist and neo-Nazi crimes
in Sweden. Swedish-born Salih Uzel was stabbed to death Friday
night after going to the rescue of his brother, wife and young
child who were being harassed by a gang of youths in Skogas, south
of Stockholm, while on their way home from a New Year's Eve party.
Police spokesman Claes Tell said three
men, aged 24, 21, and 20, were being held over the murder and
would appear in court on Tuesday for prosecutors to seek arrest
warrants. The men can then be held in custody for two weeks before
charges are laid. ``All three are Nazi sympathizers and known
to the police,'' Tell told Reuters. ``One of them drew a swastika
in his own blood on his cell door while in the police station.''
Tell said the older of the men in custody was being held on suspicion
of murder or manslaughter, and the younger two were suspected
of being accomplices to the crime. ``A team of 16 police are today
interviewing about 50 witnesses to find out exactly what happened
so legal proceedings can continue,'' he said.
Over the past year Swedes have become
increasingly concerned about rising racist and neo-Nazi crimes
in the country, where immigrants make up 12 percent of the 8.9
million population after years of liberal immigration policy.
A report by Swedish security police, Sapo, released on Monday,
showed that 2,210 crimes with a racist motive were reported to
police in 1998 -- an average of six a day -- which was an increase
of about 25 percent from a year earlier.
``This is a serious development,'' said
Sapo spokesman Torbjorn Ekblom. ``The figures are increasing in
almost every district.'' The Sapo report, called 'Crime linked
with domestic security 1998', also listed 940 reports about crimes
linked to extreme right-wing and white power groups, 226 crimes
against homosexuals, and 119 complaints about anti-Semitic crime.
This rise in violence has prompted a national debate in Sweden
about civic freedoms and whether the constitutional freedom of
association should extend to neo-Nazi groups.
Thousands demonstrated last October after
left-wing union activist Bjorn Soderberg, whose complaints had
led to a neo-Nazi being thrown out of the union, was shot dead
on his doorstep. The country's major newspapers also joined forces
in a campaign to 'out' 62 neo-Nazis and motorbike gang members,
publishing a gallery of named photographs. Some of those featured
have since been expelled from trade unions and sacked from their
jobs.
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The agonizing ordeal of couples who have felt obliged and socially pressured to care for grossly handicapped children was spotlighted as an affluent American couple preferred jail to another day of 'parenting.'
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -- An executive and his
wife went to tell police they had abandoned their 10-year-old
handicapped son after leaving him at a hospital the day after
Christmas. They said they could no longer care for him and were
duly charged, officials said.
Richard Kelso, 62, the chief
executive of P.Q. Corp., and his wife Dawn, 45, turned themselves
in to New Castle County police a day after leaving their son Steven,
who has gross cerebral palsy, at A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children
in Wilmington. The couple, who live in the affluent Philadelphia
suburb of Exton, Pennsylvania, were freed on bail and scheduled
to face trial in March in Delaware family court. Their son was
accepted at the hospital and was in state custody.
According to a hospital statement,
the Kelsos arrived at the hospital with their son in a wheelchair
and asked a receptionist to have him admitted. Mrs. Kelso told
the receptionist that she did not want to talk to anyone and that
she could no longer care for her son. The receptionist left to
find a nurse and when the two returned, the couple had vanished,
leaving behind the boy in his wheelchair with a bag of toys and
medical supplies. The statement said Steven was a long-time patient
at the hospital and was treated regularly by its physicians. According
to local reports, Steven was the couple's only child and required
24-hour care and the assistance of a respirator.
To the annoyance of Arthur Koestler's persecutor ooops biographer, Professor David Cesarani, Britain is not to prosecute an 86-year-old naturalized Australian accused of genocidal atrocities in 1940's Latvia (McDNL 30 xii '99). Like Australia, Canada and the USA, British authorities cannot detect enough new evidence from live witnesses to justify arrest and trial; but Cesarani has accused Home Secretary Jack Straw of 'lack of political will' and of 'insufficient consideration' of the case. Cesarani feels that if only the Australian geriatric were locked up and exposed to repeated questioning under torture ooops the rule of law, he would soon break down and confess everything. Like the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Cesarani is impatient with Australian and British arguments of habeas corpus whereby detention can only occur when there is prima facie evidence to justify a trial and the trial is proceeding. Apparently, the man had been second-in-command at a notoriously ruthless Nazi concentration camp. Now he will be deported to Australia -- where the law does not permit such an ancient prosecution.
An insight into anti-racist tactics has been given to Glayde Whitney as he faces the mob at Florida State University:
From: JDLFLORIDA@aol.com
Reply-To: JDL-List@onelist.com
To: JDLFLORIDA@aol.com
Subject: [The Official JDL Discussion List] HOT NEWS:David Duke's
Professor
And Fatwa Against Farrakham
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:48:21 EST
Nazi Professor Who Endorses David Duke At FSU
Here is all the info we could dig up on a nazi professor at Florida
State University who wrote a forward to & gave an endorsement
to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke's autobiography.
Now we are not suggesting anything, but people have been known
to send multiple emails & faxes to such people thus letting
them know your disapproval & jamming their emails & fax
machines so they can recieve no further emails & faxes once
they are jammed!!!!
Again we are not suggesting you do that & this is strictly
for informational & educational purposes!!!!!
Glayde D Whitney….
{The message continued by giving
Glayde's full address and phone and fax numbers.}
MUSLIM CRESCENT -- Multiculturalism -- Antipathy to Christian
neosocialism marred the Pseudo-Millennium that had been blessed
by incompetent and/or gutless Western scholars (who did not tell
Messrs Blair and Clinton that the third millennium AD can only
begin when the two thousand years have elapsed). Muslims killed
Christians and burned their homes and churches in Nigeria, Egypt,
Sudan, Indonesia (where 500 died over Christmas in bloody intercommunal
clashes) and the Philippines. Tensions remained high in Cyprus,
Bosnia, Kosovo and the Lebanon; and Muslims throughout the Middle
East continued to be amazed at Western indifference to the two-month
siege of Grozny -- the capital of a country where 95% of people
would at any time have voted for independence. Muslims are not
impressed by the high rates of adultery, drinking, divorce, infertility,
homosexualism and single-parenting tolerated among neosocialized
Christians. In 1999, the third year of Britain's 'New World Order'
ethical foreign policy, more than 6 million children were killed
or maimed in armed conflicts, and another million separated from
their families. The second millennium is ending with Western ascendancy;
but the West's refusal to look at the truth about racial and individual
differences may doom it to regress to the days around 1000AD when
the world's only serious scholarship came from Persia. -- The
Islamic world had preserved Greek ideas of heliocentrism, evolution
by natural selection, and atomic theory together with the works
of Aristotle [interpreted by top physician-philosopher-scientist
Avicenna (980-1037)] and its own development of the concept of
zero.
NEW YORK -- PaedoPride -- Britain's Princess Diana
was voted the world's most beautiful woman of the twentieth century
by 805 Americans chosen randomly by the mainstream gossip magazine,
People. Marilyn Monroe was thought the sexiest woman, Mel
Gibson the sexiest man and Martin Luther King (believed by the
FBI to have been a paedophile -- Independent, 25 iv '98)
'the greatest spiritual leader.' Britain's Prince Philip (the
Chancellor of Edinburgh LUniversity who has been thought racist
by students, has refused to investigate the scandals at the LUniversity,
has forgotten that he is Chairman of the university's General
Council, and has been accused by Mohamed Al Fayed of murdering
Princess Diana) came nowhere in the poll.
LONDON (Times 4 i '99) -- New Year was celebrated in London
with neosocialist breakdowns reminding everyone of Britain's
heritage from the dark days of Old Labour. The London Eye (a big
ferris wheel) could not be made to work -- it was liable to tip
travellers in their eight-person 'pods' upside down! The 250 selected
passengers for the first 'millennial' ride had instead to be given
British Airways flights with Continental Breakfast to world destinations
of their choice so as to get them out of the way. And four-hour
socialist queues formed at Stratford tube station, East London,
for guests to the Dome, resulting in tears, verbal abuse and scuffles
involving glitterati -- some of whom had contributed half a million
pounds towards Dome 'Zones.' Those affected included a polio-afflicted
businessman who had persuaded the City of London to cough up £UK6
million for Mr Blair's big night: he stood for four hours on crutches
in what British Telecomm tried to spin as "a meaningful experience"
on an escalator, i.e. in a queue. Guests had not received their
tickets on time thanks to Britain's monopoly postal 'service'
and because, to distinguish them from Continuity IRA supporters,
they had all needed to fill in forms recalling their grandmothers'
maiden names. Inside the Dome, the main event for the middle-aged
Blairite elite was a mediocre pop concert. To cap it all, the
'river of fire' on the Thames was rated a disappointment -- being
over in a couple of seconds as the fire zipped down the river
at 650mph, too quick for most of the drink-soused spectators.
Subsequently, crowds found many Tube stations closed: people often
had to walk a couple of miles in the continuous drizzle to board
one of the few trains at 2a.m. Britain's Third Reich ooops Way
was also embarrassed as the socialist French chose the Blairennium
to announce they would take legal action against the European
Commission to keep Britain's beef out of France.
Troubles continued after the New Year
as people who had paid £UK25 to enter the ludicrous Dome
found they had to queue for hours to see a Body Zone less graphic
and comprehensible than what the average biology teacher of the
1950's used to manage with blackboard and chalk. (Had visitors
stayed at home instead of going to grubby Greenwich, they would
have seen new TV shows -- apparently legal -- in which teams of
faceless girls drop their panties so that the audience can see
which of their swains is the first to identify the pudenda of
his beloved. As so often, socialism and its good works are somewhat
behind the times.)
LONDON -- In a sermon in St Paul's Cathedral before the Queen and Mr Tony Blair, Church of England Archbishop George Carey derided the modern worship of fame, wealth and power. "Blessed are the rich, for they shall inherit the earth," he said, and claimed modern values were "topsy-turvy" as compared to the egalitarian Christian values which had wrecked the Roman Empire, precipitating the Dark Ages.
This 15,000-word essay by Chris Brand is concerned with the main problems in the West's recent past -- its 1930-1945 plunge into barbarism and its subsequent statism. It considers the central failing of the Hitler years and uses the understanding to point the West towards a realistically liberal future.
Contents:
I The triumph of liberalism -- even over liberalism
II The problem of liberalism: directionlessness
III The need to abjure 'Nazism'
IV The perceived association of Nazism with biological interventionism
V What precisely does the West target for condemnation?
VI Hitler as betrayer
VII Yet wasn't Hitler 'evil'?
VIII Gains from viewing Hitler as a betrayer
1. Apportioning
the blame for the Holocaust
2. Preventing a recurrence
of Nazism
3. Deciding the West's agenda
for the 21st century
RÉSUMÉ and OUTLOOK
The anti-biography of Koestler by his sworn enemy Prof. David Cesarani has now been published in the USA. Like McDNL (Spring 1999 passim), New York Times reviewer Mark Mazower was not impressed. Here is the review's conclusion:
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….Even those who applaud Cesarani for bringing the rape issue
forward may wonder whether his approach is not too one-sided to
make for a convincing portrait. Koestler was a domineering man.
But he attracted women and many remained close friends after they
had slept with him. It is implausible to write them all off as
masochists, as Cesarani effectively does. Some broke with him;
but then so did many other friends and acquaintances.
In one of Koestler's stories, the authorial
hero is interviewed by a British official who tells him: ''It
often seems to me what you, and people like you, need, is that
some elderly person should put you across his knee and give you
a sound spanking.'' Cesarani is still fairly young, but in this
book a sound spanking is what he seems to be hoping to inflict
upon the incorrigibly juvenile Koestler. His disapproval of his
subject is almost unremitting, and he chastises Koestler frequently
for his irresponsibility and fecklessness, first toward his parents,
later toward his lovers.
Koestler is even told off for taking holidays
in Austria in the 1960's -- something no good Jew should apparently
have done. Cesarani's high-minded condemnation of Koestler's antics
would carry more weight had not detailed descriptions of his womanizing
so obviously helped to sell copies of this book. And after a while,
the biographer's evident commitment to the virtues of monogamous
parenthood begins to drown out Koestler's own views on women,
friendship and human relationships in general.
Another Koestler -- smartly dressed, intensely
energetic, dedicated to his craft -- makes an occasional appearance
in this biography. He was always rubbing up against history and
trying to make sense of its twists and turns. In 1933 the poet
Langston Hughes met him in, of all places, Turkmenistan (then
the Turkmen Soviet Republic), where both men were supposedly reporting
on Soviet progress under Stalin. In his autobiography, Hughes
portrays his companion's many foibles and shortcomings, but also
his directness, his generosity of spirit and his seriousness as
a writer. ''Arthur Koestler'' is far more detailed and fully researched
but I think I learned more about the essential Koestler from Hughes's
few pages than from a book too formed by contemporary prejudices
to engage fully with his achievement.
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A Human Biodiversity Email Group Correspondent writes:
My 1947 copy of Mencken's THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE reports that there
was a campaign under way in the 1920s to have the word "negro"
capitalized. Quote: "On March 7, 1930, when the New York
Times announced that it would capitalize negro thereafter,
there was jubilation in the Negro press."
Ah, the battles our grandfathers fought!
So say the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari. It is thus that they explain "why a particularly poor hunter remains a bachelor and has no prospects of ever being anything but celibate", says Sarah Blaffer Hrdy in Mother Nature (Chatto & Windus, 1999 -- see McDNL 9 xi '99). It had been wondered why !Kung hunters go for days without a catch, concentrating their attention on big animals which they rarely kill and which, when they do make a kill, are too big for the needs of their own families so have to be divided among the tribe. Eventually it was realized that the crucial variable being affected was a man's status among women as a meat-provider. The saying was used as the title for a book about the !Kung in 1993 by anthropologist Megan Biesele.
An unusual admission about the modern British university from Thunderer columnist Katie Grant:
"….the expansion of higher education has almost brought about its collapse and, in our politically correct world, we don't want to admit that some students simply shouldn't be there."
This newsletter for the science and politics of differential psychology appears on Tuesdays. See also its Archives and related articles on psychology, heredity, individual liberty and William McDougall FRS.
{Across the Pond, the Pentagon at least maintains a belief in character and is not blown hither and thither by the vicissitudes of employees' latest conduct. A Pentagon agency admitted granting security clearances to employees of defense contractors who have long histories of financial problems, drug use, alcoholism, sexual misconduct or criminal activity, USA Today reported. In one instance, an employee mishandled classified material during a five-year period but didn't lose his top-secret access, the paper found.}
David Lykken was given an opportunity to summarize the modern
hereditarian position for UK academics. He took to it with his
usual verve, even though allowed a mere 500 words. Stressing the
amazing heritability of many features of life history, as found
in twin study, DL specially dwelt on happiness.
Yes, he said, some life developments are
not under simple genetic control. Notably, identical twins
seldom fall in love with the same person. Rather, the magic of
person x situation interaction is evident here: "Romance
is like imprinting in baby geese."
Again, the ups and downs of mood are often
situational. Yet people's average levels of happiness over a period
of several years are astonishingly similar to those of close relatives,
especially to those of any identical twins they have: the happiness
set-point "is nearly 100% heritable", said DL.
JANUARY 11
THIS WEEK: What
the future holds -- as
Harrods' billionaire boss plans revenge on E.LU.'s Prince Philip;
President Clinton plans to solve the African Question;
Buddhists prepare for paedoveneration;
Siberian nomads opt for English;
Desperate PM Blair tries to market his neosocialist London Dome;
US baseball pitcher submits to psychology for his 'racism'; and
Chris Brand, Lothar Fritz and David Irving try to control
Holocaust hysteria.
Prince Philip -- the LUniversity Chancellor who doesn't read his
correspondence -- is due for a pasting. His arch-rival is back
in town, fresh from holidays in Scotland and Switzerland where
he celebrated his court victory over corrupt former MP Neil Hamilton
and the British establishment. On top form at his Harrods store
in London, Mohamed Al Fayed welcomed pouting movie legova ooops
legend Raquel Welch, 57, and helped her exhibit her giant, er,
teddy bear -- "Now Harrods teddy files sex harassment claim!"
joked the Daily Sport (6 i '99) as the billionaire used
the intercrural method to elevate the teddy for photographers.
Further high jinks await Mr Al
Fayed in the New Year. First, France's Appeal Court will deliver
its verdict on his claim that Judge Stephan's inquiry was too
easily satisfied by cursory reporting of the events of the death
of his son and Princess Diana. Next, the case will go to the French
Supreme Court; and an action may well begin by the bodyguard who
survived the car crash against the Paris Ritz and Etoile Limousines
-- trying to win compensation, partly from Mr Al Fayed. All these
occasions will provide opportunities for Mr Al Fayed to release
any new evidence he has as to the last words and last physical
condition of Dodi and Di (including the possible pregnancy of
the latter); and Mr Al Fayed will then be ready to assist Cambridge
and Edinburgh students in condemning Prince Philip's racism and
having the Duke ousted from his Chancellorships.
In his campaign against the
Mountbatten-Windsors, Mohamed Al Fayed enjoys considerable public
support. After the ITV film of June 1998, 'Diana: Secrets Behind
the Crash', 93% of viewers accepted the claim by a French ex-prisoner
that there was a 'flash before the crash', compatible the involvement
of MI6 and its Bond-style gadgetry. Viewers were also impressed
that the Princess had visited the Windsor Villa -- where the abdicated
Duke and his Duchess of Windsor had ended their days in Paris;
and that Dodi had just a day previously purchased a ring for Diana
from the top Paris jeweller Alberto Repossi. For the LUniversity
of Edinburgh, relegated in 1999 from the UK Premier League,*
it would be a devastating blow to lose at once its Chancellor
and -- if it had tried to defend the Prince against Mr Al Fayed's
charges -- his grandson, Prince William, currently expected to
enrol as a student at the LUniversity.
* Pull-out Flyer for McDNL supporters follows:
Learn how Edinburgh LUniversity -- once among the UK's top six universities -- comes only 11th in the overall national assessment of universities by the Sunday Times (19 Sep. '99), behind the Universities of Warwick and Nottingham. In other rankings of its teaching and management quality, the Looneyversity has fallen to 39th=, putting it with the University of Aberystwyth (Daily Telegraph 19 Aug. '99, A-Level Supplement). In research funding, E.LU. showed only a 1% rise in funding from 1997 to 1999, whereas Cambridge University enjoyed a 20% increase (Daily Mail 20 Nov. '99). The LUniversity has twice as many students dropping out as do similarly elite universities which admit few working class kids (Times 3 xii '99). Learn how 117 E.LU. students were punished for cheating (Scotsman 13 Aug. '99, p. 1) -- an event now known world-wide as the biggest British exam fraud ever discovered. Learn how outraged students are taking the LUniversity to court over the accusation and alleging gross incompetence (Classic FM Radio, 24 Aug. '99, 11:00); and how the 117 smeared students have set up a website where they hotly contest the charges (BBC Radio Scotland 24 Aug. '99, 22:00).* Read how a student submitted a hoax essay and was awarded a prized mark (2:1) by E.LU. staff (Times 14 x '99, Guardian 14 x '99). See how Britain's top 200 'blue chip' employers are giving up on the LUniversity's graduates (Times 16 Aug. '99). Learn how E.LU. inflated its own success for the Government's Dearing Commission. Learn how top staff styled themselves with improper qualifications. Hear how the Looneyversity sacked Chris Brand, a psychology lecturer for 26 years who mentioned non-Politically Correct facts about race, sex and IQ; yet, wilfully illiterate, E.LU.'s PR department publicly celebrates one-time anatomy professor Robert Knox who was actually Britain's top nineteenth-century scientific racist! Learn how the university paid out £12,000 -- the maximum that could have been awarded by a UK court to Chris Brand for his unfair dismissal (Times 29 Nov. '99, p. 2; Evening News [Edinburgh] 12 Nov. '99). (Why cough up? To avoid public discussion of Brand's views, said the LUniversity!) This is the university that hangs on to a £1million bequest from socialist Arthur Koestler (famed author of Darkness at Noon) but won't honour Koestler's name when feminazies and their neosocialist co-religionists allege 'serial rapism' against Koestler (an accusation emphatically rejected in Times Literary Supplement 23 Apr. '99). Hear how E.LU. today smears one of its own graduates as having "harassed" E.LU. bureaucrats to death! Hear how students want the Chancellor, Prince Philip, sacked for 'racism' (Student 24 xi '99) and how the Prince fails to investigate complaints put to him about the LUniversity. Hear how an E.LU. honours graduate has been jailed for 19 years in Australia for setting fire to his girlfriend (Times 24 Dec. '99). Just ask at Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh for Principal Dame Stewart Sutherland to explain it all!
* Note
about the Edinburgh 117. The LUniversity has apparently
violated elementary justice as it did in 1996, after Psychology
Lecturer Chris Brand had written a book about race and IQ, The
g Factor. Faced in 1999 with 117 alleged cheats, E.LU. gave
out punishments [no marks, reduced marks, mandatory resits] with
little conspicuous attention to what the students could be proved
to have done. -- Likewise, in 1996/7, the LUniversity could
never say precisely why, or for what Chris Brand
was being sacked. The LUniversity that gives way to hysterical
'anti-racists' and feminazies for the sake of a quiet life and
cash-flow must now face the music: its management is hopeless;
its academic leadership doesn't care primarily about truth; and
it has sadly ceased to behave as a university. It has tried
to treat its students as naughty children who can be given a group
punishment (mild in some cases -- but who wants to be known as
a cheat?). Likewise, in 1996, the LUniversity encouraged 'ooh-err'
avoidance of The g Factor. The LUniversity's own Information
Office would not refer inquirers to the controversial book (of
which the E.LU. Library had three copies).
The students should be treated as grown-ups
-- and that's what the 'Edinburgh 117' are now saying. The University
says students should not go to the sacked Brand for private tuition
(Daily Record 2 Sep. '99, p. 16); but only Brand is likely
to tell students the truth about IQ, race, sex and genes. In the
two years since E.LU. fired him, Brand has been proved right about
paedophilia typically doing little harm (Psychol. Bull. June
'98), about Black Africans having low average IQs (even when at
university in South Africa -- ISSID Conference, Vancouver
July '99, to be published in Intelligence), about intelligence
being under genetic control (Nature 2 Sep. '99) and about
the deceitful promiscuity of women (Sarah Hrdy, Mother Nature,
Chatto&Windus -- reviewed in Nature 11 xi '99). Education
Minister David Blunkett is now promising to introduce in state
schools (Sunday Times 22 Aug. '99) the 'fast track learning'
which Tony Blair and Chris Brand urged in 1996 -- though the latter
was howled down for his trouble by 'anti-racist' mobs in Edinburgh
'University.' In 1796, Edinburgh University -- which had refused
a job to Scotland's top philosopher, David Hume -- co-operated
in having one of its own students executed in the Grassmarket
for heresy. Today, E.LU.'s management has again put the institution's
reputation at risk.
The religion that venerates young boys, Tibetan Buddhism, has produced its most sensational coup for forty years against its Chinese conquerors. Monks spirited the holy 14-year-old boy, the 'Black Hat Lama', over 900 miles through high Himalayan passes in appalling weather not known since the 'pea-souper' smogs of 1950's London to join the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. After years of somewhat less than passive resistance, the Tibetan Buddhists had seemed to accept co-operation with the Chinese as the only way forward. Now they have infuriated their oppressors -- and also shocked the Indians, who have maintained media silence about the event, fearing what vengeance the Chinese may attempt. His Holiness the Karmapa, born Ugyen Trinley Darje, is a delightful youth having deep-set eyes, a cherubic expression and a singularly sinuous and generous mouth (with an especially charming long upper lip). He also has a skinhead haircut and a flattened 'boxer's nose.' The seventeenth Karmapa brought his sister out of Tibet with him for company, but the rest of his family remained behind. China has feigned indifference, claiming that the youth had only journeyed to Sikkim to collect more of the black hats for which Karmapas are famous and to renew his supplies of rilnah pills, used to reverse the course of chronic life-threatening ailments. {The Dalai Lama, by contrast, collects yellow hats.}
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ABORIGINAL communities were drinking and gambling
away their social security allowances, turning pay day into "party"
day, says Acting Prime Minister John Anderson. The National Party
Leader condemned poker machines as a key cause of welfare dependency
in indigenous communities, a problem that would remain high on
the Government's agenda this year.
"Gambling in hotels has exacerbated
the problem, no doubt about that, point blank," Mr Anderson
told The Australian yesterday after touring indigenous
communities in his northern NSW electorate of Gwydir. "The
money that was meant to pay the rent and buy the kids' food was
going down the gurgler for the pokies and the grog in a really
serious way." The Acting Prime Minister had earlier said
that dole day meant there was often "a pretty major party
to be had somewhere in town".
He maintained his stance yesterday in
the face of criticism from some indigenous leaders. The comments
follow claims by Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson that welfare
turned Aborigines into "drunken parasites" -- a stance
that drew both criticism and support from Abo groups.
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In a new policy initiative, America has announced it will try to solve the problems of the Dark Continent before Mr Clinton leaves office. Asked by the BBC to explain African backwardness, strife, famine and disease, US Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke said it was all due to backwardness, strife, famine and disease. The White House stooge expressly rejected any 'racialist' conception of the problem. He agreed that billions of dollars were already spent by the USA and Europe every year in helping Africa, as since 1950. But he said that should not preclude a new set of handouts. During January, in a "Month of Africa" at the U.N., his research team, including AIDS expert Al Gore, would find the answer to the African Problem. Then all the leaders like Saint Nelson Mandela and Laurent Kabila of Bongo would be invited for a barbecue on the White House lawn where they would agree to the solution in return for being given lots of guns and rockets and anything they seemed likely to be able to fire. (The model is derived from the US settlement of the Middle East -- where availability of weapons can be used to justify using Iraq as target practice for UK and US pilots.) Mr Holbrooke insisted that it would be awful not to have tried.
{The idea of encouraging regularized polygyny by successful Black men has apparently not yet occurred to the White House. Nor is there yet any sign of a plan to deport ooops relocate the USA's college-educated Black people to re-staff the administrations of African countries, where 40% of civil servants are now dying of AIDS.}
A researcher at the prestigious Hannah Arendt Institute is in hot water for saying an attempt on Hitler's life in November 1939 was "immoral." Lothar Fritz argues that Hitler's malfeasance and evil intentions for the future were not well established -- and could certainly not have been known to a normal German without special inside information from top Nazi Party sources. Thus the bomb attempt on Hitler when he spoke in Munich ten weeks after he had begun World War II was not justified. (A bomb was placed by a podium from which Hitler was to speak; but his talk lasted an unusually short eight minutes and the bomb exploded only after his departure, killing several bystanders. After lengthy interrogation and torture intended to reveal collaborators, the suspect was finally shot by the Nazis in April, 1945.) Fritz's new discussion has drawn condemnation from Holocaust experts who prefer the view that Hitler was blatantly and manifestly evil and thus that an attempt on his life -- even involving collateral risk -- would have been justified at least from the time he passed the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. Fritz's argument supports those who say the Holocaust came about relatively accidentally as a way of handling Polish-Jewish resistance threatening German lines for Operation Barbarossa.
{After her 1940 escape to the USA, Hannah Arendt (1906-75) famously introduced the notion of 'the banality of evil', stressing how 'evil' can arise from the conjunction of rather ordinary events. Likewise, Chris Brand's Millennial essay, 'Liberating the Future' (http://www.crispian.demon.co.uk/LibFut99.htm), stresses the key role in the Nazizeit not so much of Hitler's sustained evil intent or psychopathology (paranoia + Parkinsonism) but of his sheer dishonest betrayal of Germany (including its Gentiles as much as its Jews and other minorities). The argument between intentionalists (who think Hitler was evil) and functionalists (who think there was some normal explanation for the Nazizeit) is outlined in 'ACADEMIC EXTRAS' at the end of Brand's essay.}
NEW YORK (6 i '00) -- US baseball has ordered star 'closing' pitcher John Rocker of the Atlanta Braves to undergo psychological testing following his disparaging remarks about homosexuals and racial minorities (McDNL 24 xii '99). McDNL's Florida Correspondent notes that the former Soviet Union long made the assumption that ideological deviation arose primarily from psychopathology. And McDNL's Chicago Correspondent remarks that Rocker is coming to the peak of his career so cannot just be dumped as a tired and emotional has-been like Chris Brand. Rocker had promptly grovelled after denouncing Asian women drivers and AIDS-ridden New York Blacks, denying he was a racist. Now his coaches say PET scan will establish whether this was "just a case of the mouth running ahead of the brain or was in fact representative of this player's feelings."
{Just which testing outcome will prove most compatible with Rocker's continued employment remains to be worked out. Americans evidently expect baseball pitchers to be men of a certain vigour: a CNN poll found only 17% thought Rocker should be penalized. Rocker is a gifted, young, hard-throwing, 6'4", 225-pound left-hander with a killing-spree scowl and a short fuse who specializes in keeping runs down by throwing unhittable balls at batsmen's faces, so his punchy views on racial questions are hardly a surprise. Rocker's hostility to New York Mets fans goes back to three cold nights at Shea stadium, when bottles whizzed past his head, beer was dumped on his girlfriend and 2,007 sexual positions involving him and a sheep were suggested. He says: "I talked about what degenerates they [Mets fans] were, and they proved me right. Just by saying something, I could make them mad enough to go home and slap their moms." Rocker is specially critical of affirmativism to a Black basketball player who choked his coach two years ago but was allowed to continue in that sport. He can be e-mailed via http://players.bigleaguers.com/John_Rocker.html.}
{The New York Post ran an editorial saying: "….The more this Rocker thing drags out, the more one wonders what would happen if a minority athlete playing for the New York Mets went on a vicious rhetorical tear against the white people in Rocker's hometown. What if he slammed them all for being Klansmen, ignoramuses, hicks, inbreds, religious nuts, big-haired floozies and all-around degenerates? Do you think that player would be forced to undergo psychiatric testing? Or even apologize? Of course not, nor should he have to. Talking like a jackass in public is not against the law in this country, not yet anyway."}
PS (i) McDNL's Washington Correspondent adds: "Although he may well "scowl" at opponents when he is on the pitching mound and making ready to deliver a 100 mph fastball, Rocker is a very pleasant looking young fellow for the most part, and everything I have read about him indicates that he is quite normal. His competitive zeal is nothing unusual in his trade. There have been other pitchers who were well-known "headhunters" who actually enjoyed bouncing one off the helmeted bean of a batter, but he does not seem to be one of them.
PS (ii) Joe Sobran
wrote in his Internet column: "What Rocker should have said
in the first place, of course, was that, as Bill Clinton likes
to say, "diversity is our greatest strength." Not just
ethnic diversity, but diversity of behavior: crime, illegitimacy,
homosexuality, and purple hair, all of which are bountiful in
New York. When you're crowded into a dirty subway car with such
diversity pressing against you, it can make you a mite uneasy.
But you mustn't say so. You must keep repeating the official mantra:
"Diversity is our greatest strength."
The Rocker story is one more reminder
that white Americans aren't even allowed to have their own perspective
anymore. We live under the sort of tyranny of propaganda you might
expect in wartime, where everyone is expected to adopt a uniform
attitude or face charges of disloyalty. Everyone in the crowded
subway car is likewise expected to savor the "diversity"
of the experience. But there is to be no diversity of sensation
or reaction. Just paste a smile on your face and pretend you enjoy
every moment of it. Ignore your gut response and talk like a cheery
social scientist who thinks immigration even the illegal immigration
of new hordes of ruthless gangsters is an unalloyed blessing."
McDNL's St Louis Correspondent writes: "Who ever could have guessed that the children of Rich White Conservatives would figure out a way to turn rules intended to help the underprivileged to their advantage? I am shocked. *Shocked.* The next thing we will hear is that RWCs are pulling strings to secure rent-controlled apartments in New York City!"
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More and more college-bound students are requesting extra time on the SAT, citing learning disabilities. But, in disproportionate numbers, they are rich, white and male.
The number of students who get extra time
to complete the SAT because of a claimed learning disability has
soared by more than 50% in recent years, with the bulk of the
growth coming from exclusive private schools and public schools
in mostly wealthy, white suburbs.
The predominance of rich, white teenage
boys among those claiming disabilities troubles members of the
College Board, which owns the examination. Their fear is that
the accommodations, rather than helping those with real disabilities,
increasingly have become a way of gaming the system -- allowing
privileged families to gain advantage on a high-stakes exam.
"We are concerned about people taking
advantage of it who are not really qualified to, but have been
smart enough to step around the rules," said College Board
President Gaston Caperton. "And, secondly, that people who
are not as [economically] advantaged have equal access to accommodations."
Demands for special accommodations --
which schools usually approve based on a psychologist's recommendation
or sometimes a doctor's note -- are similarly on the increase
on other high-stakes tests, such as those that involve admission
to law or medical schools. A Times analysis of data supplied
by the College Board shows those taking advantage of special accommodations
on the SAT -- usually extra time -- are disproportionately clustered
in well-to-do pockets along the Boston-New York-Washington corridor.
More recently, the practice has spread West to similar wealthy,
highly competitive communities in the Los Angeles area as well
as in the San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Barbara and San Diego.
Last year, 47,000 SAT exams were given
with special accommodations. The vast majority are not controversial.
They involved students with well-documented learning disabilities.
For example, a dyslexic teenager may get time and a half, or four-and-a-half
hours, to plow through the three-hour test because he reads so
slowly.
But a growing number of cases -- hundreds
and perhaps thousands -- involved what one college official calls
"upper-income game players" who believe extra time can
provide a crucial boost in their scores. "It is a way for
rich white kids to create a minority niche for themselves,"
said Paul Kanarek, who runs SAT preparation classes in Southern
California. "I don't see many kids from Compton getting these
kinds of luxurious diagnoses."
Indeed, although only a tiny fraction
-- 1.9% -- of students nation-wide got special accommodations
for the SAT, the percentage jumps fivefold for students at New
England prep schools. At 20 prominent north-eastern private schools,
nearly one in 10 students received special treatment.
….One West Los Angeles mother, a
psychologist who agreed to talk to The Times on a condition
of anonymity, succeeded in getting her daughter extra time.
"My daughter took the SAT the first
time and came back and kept saying, 'If I just had a little bit
more time, I know I could have done well.' "
Her daughter was making good grades at
a private high school but showed disappointing results on the
PSAT, the precursor to the SAT. So she took her to a psychologist,
who concluded she "might have attention deficit disorder."
The school principal didn't think the
diagnosis warranted special accommodations in school. After the
17-year-old got disappointing scores on the SAT, the mother sent
an appeal directly to the College Board asking for extended time
when the child took the test again. The request was denied.
Knowing she had to move fast, she took
her daughter to an "M.D. psychiatrist . . . who wrote a quick
letter, saying she thought maybe [the teenager] had ADD and was
in the process of a diagnosis. M.D. letters have a lot of weight.
This time they allowed it."
Did it help? With extra time and tips
from an SAT tutor, the girl's score went up 250 points -- enough
to be wait-listed at UC Berkeley. "I wasn't 100% sure that
she needed extra time," the mother said. "It ended up
working to my benefit, and she obviously did well."
It is possible, psychologists say, for
subtle disabilities in hard-working students to remain masked
until late in life, sometimes not surfacing until graduate school.
Smart students with disabilities learn tricks to compensate in
high school, especially since classroom tests rarely require them
to focus longer than 50 minutes in one stretch. It's only when
they come up against a three-hour, high-stakes test like the SAT
that the disability becomes evident.
But there are also many cases in which
parents hear about a neighbor's child getting extended time and
make rather bald-faced efforts to join the rush….
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The correct way to administer a test is to make the test maximally valid as a measure of whatever is being measured. Unfortunately, the owners of SAT have long since ceased to defend the test as a measure of anything -- whether intelligence, knowledge or educability. Instead, bowing to constructicackle, they regard it merely as a race for prizes -- so why not give a leg-up to the weaker brethren if that is what society and the media seem to want? Unfortunately, the quest for popularity is now running the test into shameless contradictions. The revelation here that fully 2% of the US population is already given rigged SAT scores that 'compensate for handicap' is striking. It is a great pity that the test manufacturers have not told testees that they must tell their own sob stories about their results rather than have their excuses built secretively into the SAT result itself.
It has often been said that the only way to stop the feminazie witch-hunting of kiddiefiddlers will be to accuse the accusers of paedophilia. Now it turns out this move can be very successful. -- Apparently, the only jobs left to practitioners of the pathetic perversion may be as 'investigators' of their fellow paedophiles….
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PALMDALE, California -- A city councillor and former
sheriff's child-abuse investigator turned himself in to authorities
today after he was charged with molesting four girls over the
past decade, prosecutors said. Kevin Carney, 48, pleaded innocent
at his arraignment in Los Angeles Municipal Court and is being
held on $2 million bail. The former county sheriff's sergeant
faces the possibility of life in prison, said spokeswoman Sandi
Gibbons of the district attorney's office.
Carney is accused of 17 counts of child
molestation and one count of possession of child pornography.
The crimes allegedly occurred between April 1990 and October 1999,
according to the felony complaint filed in Los Angeles Municipal
Court.
Claims of child molestation surfaced in
1997 when Carney was the sheriff's lead sex-abuse investigator
in Antelope Valley, north of Los Angeles, and supervised cases
involving children. He was removed from that position after two
girls aged 7 and 8 claimed he had sexually abused them. Prosecutors
did not file charges against Carney at that time because they
felt there was insufficient evidence, Gibbons said.
On Oct. 29, Carney was arrested after
a 14-year-old girl accused him of molesting her, Gibbons said.
Four days later, he was elected to a seat on the City Council
in Palmdale, a community about 60 miles north of Los Angeles.
He was freed on $100,000 bail. Carney denied the charges, calling
them a smear campaign by his opponents. The 23-year veteran of
the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department retired a month after
his arrest….
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SONOMA, California (APBnews.com 6 i '00) --
A 15-year-old girl, reported missing by her father several
months ago, was returned to her home after police found her in
Phoenix and arrested the 31-year-old man who had spirited her
away days before he was due in court to answer charges of molesting
her, authorities said. When police found the happy couple, they
were with the girl's mother, who approved of the affair; but the
man, Jeffrey Shoemaker, will now face grave charges which could
result in him being sodomized by AIDS-ridden US Black convicts
in perpetuity.
U.S.A. -- Victimless crime -- Court TV has
carried a programme asking why virtual kiddieporn is illegal when
images of virtual rape and sodomy are not. Apparently, the original
reason for banning all kiddieporn was that its manufacture would
have involved compliant children engaging in near-wanton acts;
but by definition virtual paedoporn is not so constituted. The
only distinct argument against it is thus that it may be used
to desensitize and corrupt minors -- but there is little evidence
that such use occurs. The matter is likely to be considered by
the US Supreme Court.
U.K. -- The coach of a
Premier League soccer team has been suspended following charges
of paedophilic molestations. The Observer (9 i '00) screamed
'Paedophiles target football's talent factories' -- though without
producing a single named case except a director who had sex with
a fifteen-year-old girl (not a trainee at all) and has now been
accepted back at his London club on full pay and perks. The Times
found the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children had been investigating 80 cases of paedophilic naughtiness
by social workers in 1999 -- resulting in allegations against
138 care staff and charges by police against 50. Now there are
media demands that umpires be appointed in every children's home
in Britain to monitor complaints about paedophilia to or by children.
{How actual paedophiles will be kept from such new positions is
a mystery. Notoriously, paedophiles are solicitous about children
and competitive with each other -- as in Nabokov's Lolita.}
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Maryland -- US Judge Durke Thompson, who said "it takes two to tango" before sentencing a child molester to less than two years in prison, is facing a storm of media criticism. The 'molested' girl in the case was an 11-year-old who wore make-up and slit skirts and played the Internet through till 2.30a.m. She had invited an ex-Marine, 24, from El Salvadore, to her home and bedroom, where the man was eventually discovered hiding in a cupboard with his pants down at 3a.m. by the girl's mother. The US media say Thompson's leniency reflects the 1998 research paper by US psychologists that paedophilia does little harm -- a report for which, it is said, an apology was made to Congress by the American Psychological Association. {See McDNLs Summer, 1999 -- though those reports did not apparently detect the full extent of the grovelling by the APA.}
Uninfluenced by guns, missionaries or slave traders, a country the size of India is opting for English.
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MOSCOW -- The people of the snowbound and remote
region of Yakutia, mainly Siberian nomads and ethnic Russians,
must learn English if they are to prosper, their regional leader
has decided. A decree signed this week by President Mikhail Nikolayev
made English an obligatory subject in schools in the north-east
Siberian republic, roughly the size of India, and English was
proclaimed a working language at official events. ``English will
be a working language at all events involving foreign guests,''
government press officer Tatyana Tarasova said Thursday, in Russian,
from Yakutsk, 8,500 km (5,100 miles) and six time zones east of
Moscow. ``We want to encourage investors and bring our economy
closer to the rest of the world. Other languages are useful, but
if you don't speak English in the world community, you have problems.''
Thinly populated Yakutia, known officially
as the Republic of Sakha, has vast deposits of diamonds and gold
and, like other Russian regions, has won considerable autonomy
from central authorities in Moscow.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Argentine human rights groups have demanded a
magazine ad for Hawaiian Tropic sun-tan lotion, depicting a sun-tanned
man being dragged off by the Ku Klux Klan, be withdrawn because
it is offensive to blacks.
The advertisement, designed by an Argentine
ad agency, takes up two pages in the local edition of music and
entertainment magazine Rolling Stone. It portrays white-robed
and hooded members of the white supremacist group hauling away
an incredulous white man from the side of a private swimming pool
-- a bottle of Hawaiian Tropic sun-tan oil in the foreground.
``The tone is humorous, the idea is: You're
going to get so black that the Ku Klux Klan are going to come
after you,'' Carlos Perez, creative director of Grey Argentina
-- the agency that dreamed up the ad -- told the daily Clarin
newspaper.
Human rights groups said there was nothing
funny about it. ``It's an outrage to blacks, it suggests that
being black means you are vulnerable to being kidnapped and tortured
by the Ku Klux Klan,'' Victor Ramos, head of the Argentine Institute
Against Discrimination (INADI), told Reuters. ``The content is
racist,'' Ramos said, adding that INADI would do everything it
could to make Rolling Stone cut the ad.
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"The Dome emerges as the epitome of a New Labour approach that is all too familiar for comfort. Continue a Tory project; make a grandiose commitment; employ such words as 'new', 'modern' and 'beacon'; sign up the sponsors; get some slick marketing. And to hell with content."
Paul Johnson, in the Daily Mail:
"You should never build anything unless you know what it is for…. An edifice put up to no clear end is a monstrosity, an offence against nature and reason."
Leader in the Observer:
"[The Dome is an] under-resourced, badly managed, bombastic, plastic disposable shell with a hollow heart."
{The Spectator was equally scathing of London's Blairennial night when three million people packed on to the banks of the Thames. It was 'boring, dangerous, drunken, ugly and empty of content' said one writer who had been set upon by a homosexual gang and seen couples 'fornicating behind wheelie bins.' Amidst weeping women, mascara running down their faces from the incessant drizzle, he recorded 'we have become a nation of savages.' It was certainly astonishing that the Archbishop of Canterbury should have agreed to settle for a slot in the miserable Dome -- which is even more devoid of sunlight than the rest of wintry Britain. He could after all have held his own bash in the splendour of Westminster Abbey, which the Queen would surely have preferred to doing the okey-cokey at the knees-up in the Dome. For the Observer, columnist Arnold Kemp agreed the Domidisaster symbolised dishonest New Labour: the Dome was "the apogee of spin-doctoring", he wrote. Astonishingly, the Dome could not even provide the one form of refreshment predictably in demand from British visitors who standardly spent an hour queuing to see the Tony ooops Body Zone: in the interests of modernity, the sale of tea in the Dome had been forbidden by organizers.}
LONDON -- Third Way exposed -- The New Year started disastrously
for Mr Blair's neosocialist government which provides Thatcherism
without the latter's imaginative or freedom-loving components.
The London Dome was a flop except in so far as Brits regard queuing
hours for fatuous non-events as a national tradition, and major
funders like Boots and BSkyB seemed likely to pull out; the National
Health Service was revealed to be desperately shuttling flu-stricken
English patients to Scotland, France and Wales (where one 74-year-old
man died after five hours in an ambulance despite having just
been given a heart transplant at public expense); the London Met
was claimed to be as 'racist' as ever; and England's schools needed
weekly injections of panic measures from the blind egalitarian
Education Secretary (now trying to improve 'creativity' and to
bus children from school to school as a disguised way of introducing
individuated curricula).
Seeing a window of opportunity for a proper
opposition to the New Labour Government, a Times leader
(6 i '00) urged the Liberal Party to begin to take up civil liberties
issues against Blairite authoritarianism; but the Liberals prefer
to warn against Thatcherite tax cuts. Still, Mr Blair will have
no easy ride in 2000. For his Blairennial awaybreak, he is with
Third Way admirer Antonio Guterres in Portugal, but the leader
of England's longest ally will not be able to help with Blair's
great problem of how to win a referendum for taking Britain finally
into Europe -- dropping the pound sterling , a thousand years
of common law and the British veto that has so far made membership
of the European Union tolerable. Adding to his problems, Blair's
wife Cherie has been fined UK£10 for travelling on a train
without a ticket. Supposedly she was caught short without change
for a ticket machine while rushing to serve as a judge in Luton.
GROZNY, Chechnya -- 'New World Order' superpowers defied
-- Heroic resistance by Islamic Chechnyan nationalists slowed
the advance of the Red Army, vindicating US Presidential contender
Pat Buchanan's idea that there may yet be life in nationalism.
Associated Press reported from Sleptovskaya that Russian
soldiers claim the military is vastly understating casualties
in Chechnya, and the Times agreed. The BBC (9 i '00) said
Russia had lost thirty men in just 24 hours of fighting. Likewise
rejecting superpower wishes for multicultural tranquillity, Muslims
in Indonesia continued locked in daily murderous and arsonistic
struggle with Christians in Ambon, Moluccas. {However, it is far
from clear that territory-holding nationalism will ever again
have much appeal within the West itself except in the event of
serious economic recession. Of more interest in the West will
be Muslim ideas that men should be able to contract for proper
wives, families and mistresses for whom they themselves will provide
health care and education -- rather than having to tolerate neosocialist
state-welfarist arrangements.}
LONDON (BBCR4UK 6 i '99) -- Educalunacy -- Having
failed to realize Mr Tony Blair's hopes for fast track learning,
Education Secretary David Blunkett said he would increase the
creativity of state schoolchildren by special exercises and test
the results in new exams at 12, 13, 14, 15 etc. Old leftie Richard
Ingrams (long the editor of Private Eye) was moved to suggest
in his Observer column that since the Government only wants
training for employment, it might as well now hand the state schools
over to the private sector. {Frequent testing of children was
first thought up by the last Conservative government so as to
punish teachers; but the latter managed to resist testing of whether
a school showed 'value added' gains on top of what could be expected
from children's IQs.}
NEW YORK (National Post 6 i '00) -- Afro-American Aggro
-- Following a night-club shoot-out, half-caste rap maestro Sean
"Puffy" Combs is now, according to industry insiders,
in danger of being dumped by his super-starlet girlfriend, the
actress-singer Jennifer Lopez. Apparently, a member of Puffy's
Black posse fired two shots from a 40-calibre handgun inside Club
New York. One of Puffy's top rappers, Jamal "Shyne"
Barrow, is accused of opening fire with a 9mm Ruger during the
incident and wounding three clubgoers. This would seem to be a
fairly recent hazard of pop fandom, unknown to previous generations
of music devotees….
PRISTINA, Kosovo (Times Higher 24/31 xii '99; Guardian
7 i '00) -- Multiculturalism -- Ethnic cleansing of Kosovo
by NATO now takes the form of time sharing, with the university
assigned to Serbs for two days of each week. However, no Serbs
now turn up despite being refused transfer to universities in
Serbia proper. Authorities say only one thousand Serbs remain
in Kosovo after six months of NATO occupation. In New York, Human
Rights Watch claims evidence that NATO's notorious bombing of
a Serbian passenger train crossing a bridge at Grdelicka was deliberate:
apparently, NATO speeded up its film of the event to make it appear
that a train had 'suddenly' appeared on the bridge at the last
moment before it was bombed.
EL MONTE, California -- Multicultural policing -- After
a day spent busting marijuana users, enthusiastic police took
a helicopter and armoured car to the home of one Mario Paz and
killed him while he and his wife were in bed together. Police
say they found $10,000 in cash and four weapons in the Paz home.
{American police justify the use of such shootings by saying Black
criminals sometimes shoot at them while they are making inquiries.
To maintain anti-racism, White suspects must be treated the same
as Blacks regardless of any statistical evidence to the contrary.}
AURORA, Ill. (APBnews.com) -- Paedohysteria -- A
60-year-old Catholic priest accused of molesting two altar boys
in California of 1980 has agreed to head west to answer the charges.
The Rev. Edward Lawrence Ball is on electronic monitoring and
living in the Society of the Missionaries of Sacred Heart's U.S.
headquarters. {Child molestation cases used to have a statute
of limitations in California until the state Supreme Court in
August overruled a 1994 statute which forbade new prosecutions
of crimes committed prior to 1988.}
NEW YORK (Reuters 7 i '00) -- Affirmative racism -- Bowing
to Black pressure groups, the idiotically White-guilt-ridden media
outfit, ABC, which brought the Black sitcom ''Benson'' and the
mendacious landmark slavery mini-series ``Roots'' to U.S. television,
became the second network this year to pledge to use more racial
minorities both in front of and behind the cameras.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Hispanics vs Anglos -- The
Mexican consul here said Hispanics should not patronize Georgia
companies that mistreat them and suggested a national boycott
of shops that do not offer services in Spanish. {In 1933, Jewish
leaders called for an international boycott of German goods --
an understandable development, but one which did nothing for German-Jewish
relations.}
LONDON (ClassicFMRadio 7 i '00; Independent 8 i
'00) -- Feminazism -- After a decade of panic breast screening,
turning 10% of the work of GPs over to the exercise and elevating
anxiety in hundreds of millions of women, Danish researchers reported
in the Lancet that screening has made no difference to
breast cancer rates. Peter Gotzsche and Ole Olsen of Copenhagen's
Nordic Cochrane Centre had reviewed studies from Canada, New York,
Scotland and Sweden without finding a shred of evidence to support
the hysterical demands of professional wymmin that governments
should repeatedly examine the mammaries of every woman in the
West to make up for the girls not having husbands or babies. The
researchers agree that deaths from breast cancer have fallen by
14% since 1989, but randomized trials in half a million women
find no effect of the screening variable. Just one life is saved
per one thousand women screened for ten years, but women are misleadingly
told their repeated checks will reduce their chance of breast
cancer by 25%. The British Government has been accused of "social
engineering" and inducing panic by Michael Baum, Professor
of Surgery at University College London Hospitals. A distressed
Labour government minister, Blair Babe Helen Liddell, said "I
find the report extremely unhelpful. I am a womyn."
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters 7 i '00) -- White
Fight -- The FBI is investigating a flood of racist hate mail
sent to civil rights groups and black colleges in recent weeks
threatening escalating violence against blacks and Jews. The obscenity-laden
letters, which refer to Rahowa, or racial holy war -- the battle
cry of the white supremacist World Church of the Creator run by
Matt Hale -- were mailed anonymously from south-eastern North
Carolina in late December. {White racists have been totally let
down by American academics -- with the honourable exception of
Professor Glayde Whitney -- and are now running amok without intellectual
guidance. This is the result of a decade of ferocious PC that
has terrified even baseball players let alone goatee-bearded professors
who might otherwise speak out against America's rapid decline
into multiculturalism.}
LONDON (Guardian 7 i '00; ClassicFMRadio 7 i '00,
21:00) -- According to their boss, Sir Paul Condon, the Metropolitan
Police came close to a 'meltdown of morale' over the Macpherson
Report which accused them in 1999 of 'institutional racism.'
Now seriously short of recruits, they await more condemnation
this week from Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary -- which
had also been asked by the Home Secretary to give them a hard
time. To add to their woes, they stopped and questioned a Black
car driver over Christmas while investigating a robbery: the driver
turned out to be Neville Lawrence, the father of the now-sainted
Black teenager whose unsolved death in a London street in 1992
had led to the Macpherson Inquiry. Mr Lawrence has now lodged
a formal complaint against police harassment….
TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Death for Blacks resumes -- Florida
lawmakers have agreed to change the way the state puts condemned
Black prisoners to death, ending a 76-year reliance on the electric
chair to carry out its ultimate penalty. Execution of Floridan
slaves ooops prisoners will now take place by chemical injection
unless victims request electrocution. Florida's electric chair
came under criticism in 1997 when flames shot from the head of
an executed prisoner, a spectacle that brought capital punishment
in Florida to a halt for nearly a year. Now the culling of Blacks
can continue -- necessitated since the USA has no policy of transportation,
apartheid or eugenics. Prolonging the agony, prisoners typically
wait 14 years on Death Row before their court-ordered sentences
are carried out.
MANCHESTER, England -- Academic irrelevance -- BBCR4UK
staged a half-hour debate (8 i '00, 22:10) on the future of Britain's
remaining 164 grammar schools. The programme included Oxford University's
Professor Quinn as a star egalitarian. Though selection by innate
ability for tailored education was the central focus, no speaker
felt obliged even to mention Galton, Spearman, Burt, Eysenck
or The g Factor (whether by Chris Brand or Arthur Jensen).
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters 7 i '00) -- Hispanic disgrace
-- In a ruling with nation-wide implications, a US Federal judge
ruled that Texas can continue to require all students to pass
a standardized test as a requirement for graduation from high
school. Pathetic Hispanics had linked up with Negroes to challenge
the arrangement -- even though all Texas pupils are given twelve
chances to pass the elementary test.
BERLIN (Times 10 i '00) -- Russia waves goodbye to Jews -- An influx of migrants from Russia has boosted Berlin's Jewish population from 30,000 in 1989 to 100,000 today. Migration from Russia is heavy, partly because of anti-Semitism and partly because of economic instability. In 1999 alone, 30,000 Jews migrated to Israel.
Support for McDNL's nomination for 'Brit of the Millennium' came in the nick of time from History Today's Associate Editor. Historian Nigel Jones reckoned Henry VIII's 1534 achievement of breaking from Rome the big event of the second millennium -- making way (after initial authoritarianism and pillage of the monasteries) for common law, habeas corpus, constitutional government, parliamentary democracy, religious tolerance and free speech. Why, asked Jones, did talk-of-the-town Gaelic-lover Norman Davies (The Isles, 1999) unfailingly join with traitors James I, James II, Charles James Fox, Lytton Strachey, Oswald Moseley, Ted Heath, Ken Clarke and Chris Patten in deploring each and every event which gave the British Isles their distinctiveness? (Bizarrely, Davies claims Magna Carta England to have been 'little more than an extension of France' and is then very unhappy that Henry VIII changed all that.)
Strangely, habeas corpus proved just as important as ever over the New Year, as UK Home Secretary explained to an impatient media and Jewish lobbyists that he could not detain the 86-year-old Konrad Kalejs for his alleged atrocities in Latvia of 1940. Detention would have required Britain to proceed to a trial using evidence so uncertain as to risk making a worse mockery of Holocaust hysteria than was happening already as 'civil liberties' and 'human rights' groups like Amnesty bayed for Kalejs' blood.
The astonishing preoccupation of moderns with the Holocaust, rather than with anything more positive, was also derided by Living Marxism editor Mick Hulme, writing in the Times. Hume specially remarked the rise and rise of Holocaustery and asked what interest this bizarre phenomenon could serve:
In the words of a Jewish American double-act tired of the booming Holocaust industry, "There's no business like Shoah business." …The Holocaust has acquired its elevated status as perhaps the last moral absolute in an uncertain world. ….the Holocaust industry is an exercise in self-flattery for societies such as Britain and the USA.
The essay 'Liberating the Future' likewise considers it is time to be more realistic about the Holocaust. The Nazi regime did not involve any 'quintessence of evil' that Europeans could agree to detect in the 1930's. Nor were the Nazis beaten by crusaders who opposed eugenics or even anti-Semitism. Rather, the Nazizeit occurred because of Nazi dishonesty and a lack of supervision of government -- features that are sadly embedded at the heart of neosocialism today, as witness the beaming-and-frowning Mr Blair, the Ethnic Cleanser of Kosovo, responsible for thousands of Serbian deaths, declaring the London Dome a triumph just as it so plainly embarrassed the Queen and symbolized a great hope betrayed. Thankfully, an ancient English principle has spared Britain from making an ass of itself by trying a frail pensioner who is already a pariah for his youthful police work for his country. Hopefully Mr Blair will use the breathing space to read 'Liberating the Future' and reflect how to embed more anti-authority English individualism into the governance of nations.
Fed up with failing to bag Konrad Kalejs, the Jewish Simon Wiesenthal Centre pestered Sweden's Prime Minister Goran Persson, making him promise to investigate Sweden's links to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A television documentary claimed at least 260 Swedes had been members of Hitler's elite Waffen SS. Some 400 bigwigs from 45 countries are due to attend a Stockholm Holocaust conference over January 26-28, including German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and British Foreign Minister Robin Cook.
In London, the trial begins this week of the action against Nazizeit
historian David Irving who protests as libellous the idea
of Deborah Lipstadt (Emory University, Atlanta) (Denying the
Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth and Memory, 1993 [Penguin,
1996]) that he is 'an Adolf Hitler partisan' and 'misrepresents
data.' (For details, see http://www.fpp.co.uk/Legal/Penguin/PenguinIndex.html
and http://www.fpp.co.uk/Legal/Penguin/LipstadtClaim.html)
A key argument that will surface before a High Court judge will
be whether Hitler all along intended genocide (at least from 1924,
when he wrote Mein Kampf); or whether the death camp policy
for Polish Jews was developed almost as a form of euthanasia after
Operation Barbarossa was bogged down (preventing the transportation
of Jews to the east, and limiting supplies for feeding Polish
resisters). While accepting that many Jews were killed [at least
100,000 at Auschwitz, he says], Irving has doubted Hitler's involvement
[he thinks Goebbels was responsible] and doubted any but an 'experimental'
use of gas chambers; and he is thought likely to adduce scientific
testimony -- e.g. from the absence of cyanide traces at parts
of the Auschwitz site. However, Irving, at his website, says he
will "resist any attempt to use the court room to refight
World War II, or to rewrite the history of that war." Rather,
he is concerned with his own personal and professional reputation
and thus to contest the particular notion that he ever intentionally
misrepresented that history. Irving summarizes his life and his
case against Prof. Lipstadt at http://www.fpp.co.uk/Legal/Penguin/witness/Irving.html,
expressly denying any elitism, male chauvinism or racism (though
regretting mass coloured immigration to Britain).
Britain's star military historian, Sir
John Keegan (Defence Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph)
has written: "Two books in English stand out from the vast
literature of the Second World War: Chester Wilmot's The Struggle
for Europe, published in 1952, and David Irving's Hitler's
War…" Irving is said by Lipstadt to have been condemned
as "fascist" by the House of Commons in 1989 and barred
from entering Germany, Australia and Canada; but he was subsequently
invited by the Sunday Times (ed. Andrew Neil) to supervise
the translation of Goebbels' diaries from an important newly discovered
Russian archive in 1992. Irving says he is not properly described
as a 'Holocaust denier'; though he is certainly a Nazizeit
revisionist. His book on Goebbels, though praised by historians
including Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre), was dropped
by St Martin's (Macmillan) in 1996 after a storm of criticism
from groups like the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The
New Statesman writer, Christopher Hitchens wrote of Irving's
work in Vanity Fair, that he was "not just a Fascist
historian, [but]….also a great historian of Fascism."
Deborah Lipstadt is a leading Holocaust
student who chose to confront Irving's arguments rather than just
to ignore them as had most Holocaust experts previously. Lipstadt
takes the view that the construction of gas chambers and the supply
of massive amounts of cyanide is well documented and that there
is essentially no serious case for revisionism.
David Irving will be conducting his own
case against a well-funded team led by the solicitor who arranged
Princess Diana's divorce. Irving told the Guardian: "They
say I am the most dangerous man on earth. I must admit I am very
intimidated by the amount of money they have spent, and the number
of people they have sent to Germany to scour for facts. They want
a showdown. I think they are relishing the prospect and I doubt
they will have change from $5m in the amount they have spent already
on experts. They have some very good experts indeed and I look
forward to meeting them." He claims he would have settled
for £500 donated to a charity for limbless girls in memory
of his daughter who died in September. He has been forced to hand
over private papers and diaries by the defence. The non-jury case
will be heard before Hon. Mr Justice Charles Gray, a distinguished
former libel barrister, and is expected to last at least three
months.
Discussing the failure of academics to
stand by free speech for Irving, Anne Sebba wrote for Times
Higher (7 i '00) that at least one top UK history professor
is fed up that students today know (or believe they know) far
more about what World War II did to the Jews than what it did
to Russians and Germans -- or about what World War I did to the
Austrians, British and French. Jewish casualties in the century's
conflicts were no worse in quantity and quality than those of
other nations, yet Jewry has pathetically declined to take responsibility
for its own game plan under which, in cahoots with Britain, it
brought the USA into World War I but understandably miffed the
Germans.
Keenly following the Irving vs. Lipstadt/Penguin trial will be Koestler-hating historian David Cesarani. According to Times Higher, Cesarani is so eager to indict all and sundry for lack of anti-Nazi zeal that he has fallen out with quite a few of his fellow Jews -- especially with those who don't share his commitment to Zionism
The argument that the Jews are a race and nation like any other, and possibly more so, has lately been considered by the Human Biodiversity Email Group. One star correspondent (and McDNL fan) has adumbrated the traditional point that Jews can seem somewhat exclusive, not to say racist and positively off-putting to possible converts:
If Judaism is to become a proselytizing religion, they really should work on MAKING IT EASIER. I once made some enquiries about converting to Judaism and discovered the following. (1) You have to get circumcised EVEN IF YOU ALREADY HAVE BEEN. ("How does that work, then?" I asked the rabbi. "Oh," he said, "it's just a little nick." In the words of the late Tony Hancock: It may be just a little nick to YOU, mate ...) (2) You have to learn Hebrew. If you're really keen, you should learn Aramaic, too (the language of, for example, the Kaddish), though this doesn't seem to be required. (3) Kasruth (the dietary laws) are non-optional. Get to like Tsimmis, halva and gefulte fish. (Tsimmis contains prunes and carrots. I couldn't bear to look at it long enough to see what else. Halva is a waste by-product in the manufacture of polystyrene. Gefulte fish is fish that somebody else has already eaten.)
Genital mutilation PLUS mastering an oriental language PLUS an extra set of kitchenware? Is there any other religion that asks this much of converts?
I gotta suggestion, guys. Shift the coming of the Messiah from the future to the past; drop the Hebrew and dietary stuff; allow anybody to join; get some nice vernacular hymns and a prayer book ... Wait a minute -- hasn't this been tried?
I've discussed these postings with some Jewish friends. One thread that turned up in their responses is the following (abstracted by me from several remarks): "We are God's Marine Corps. We hit the beaches, we take the casualties. We are the BEST. Why should we lower standards to let more in? The fewer, the better."
Much historical anti-Semitism in Europe involved only a religious
criterion of Jewishness: Mendelssohn and Disraeli were among the
many success stories resulting from family conversions to Christianity.
However, the modern state of Israel uses criteria for admission
that are more closely in line with those of the 'racist' Nuremberg
Laws.
Having failed to persuade Her Majesty's Government to launch a
prosecution for genocide of an 86-year-old Latvian pensioner
living in an old folks' home in Leicester, Nazi-hunters in the
UK are now pursuing an 84-year-old Lithuanian father of three
who, with his Ceylonese wife, runs a guest house in Edinburgh.
Anton Gecas, who came to Britain in 1947 and claimed to have fought
with the Polish Army, failed in a libel action against Scottish
Television in 1992 after he had been accused of assisting in the
murder of 32,000 Jews in Eastern Europe. It seems that Mr Blair's
plan for a Holocaust Remembrance Day may not be sufficient to
end left-ist attempts to milk the Holocaust for all it is worth.
By contrast, in Berlin there is firm government talk that there
will be no more reparations or prosecutions or attempts to continue
hysteria about the Holocaust -- not, at least, after the establishment,
beginning 2001, of a Holocaust Monument to end monuments….
{Sadly, Russia is so poor that no-one is prepared to bother opening
prosecutions respecting the scores of millions killed on Communist
orders.}
Visiting William McDougall's birthplace of Oldham, Lancashire, to see how the other half lives, former Black Panther Darcus Howe, 56 -- now a comfortable London columnist who plans to hold forth about his love of Britain and Brixton -- was shocked (Observer 9 i '00). Oldham is "now really, really poor"; and on the streets he found flash Pakistanis in suits along with bitter, twisted Whites. "The white people are what they'd call in America white trash," Darcus mused. "I'd never come across that before. They want the Pakistanis physically eliminated." Dover too, which received thousands of Albanians in 1999, is a hell hole. But Darcus still loves the land in which he has settled, naming its star qualities as Craftsmanship, Tolerance, Eloquence and Humour. {McDougall's prosperous factory-owning Scottish father had settled in Oldham. Darcus Howe has a weekly slot in the left-wing New Statesman and debated race realism with Chris Brand three years ago before a rigged audience in Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.}
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Academics have warred over human intelligence
for a century. The hidden fundamental issue of the Florida Civil
Rights Initiative is: "Why does intelligence vary?"
One side (without proof) supports egalitarianism:
Everyone has equal cognitive expectations when conceived. Given
identical environments, individuals develop identical intelligence.
Environmental effects make people "bright" or "dumb."
Heredity has no effect. The other side proves traditional heredity
(genetics): Sixty percent, plus or minus 20 percent, of intelligence
is inherited. Sixty percent is probably low. Those percentages
encompass all experimental studies published up to 1994 (and,
that I've found, since). Conception freezes inherited intelligence.
"Other factors" develop the rest.
Egalitarianism is based solely on philosophy.
It appeals to honorable instincts but is contrary to statistically
valid, replicated experimental findings. "Political correctness",
the creation of America's liberal coalition, is a by-product of
egalitarianism. The coalition is not formally organized, like
the AARP, nor massive, like American support for World War II.
Disparate and relatively small, it includes the media, academe,
politicians, Hollywood and minority organizations and activists.
It has enormous nation-wide power. Socialistic PC has controlled
American social ideology for four decades. And socialism doesn't
work.
Solicitous people accept egalitarianism.
Encouraged by PC, many reject that average intelligence of races
differs significantly. However, if they accept egalitarianism
but not creationism, they must believe that the human brain is
the only entity in all biological life not subject to genetics.
There are innumerable published experimental studies supporting
genetics and refuting egalitarianism; but none vice versa. Egalitarianism
and genetics are mutually exclusive. Some PC advocates use spin
to support their positions they ignore valid scientific findings.
PC censorship and distortion punish those who present or discuss
facts for example, by ruining their careers. PC has brainwashed
the public into accepting egalitarianism.
Affirmative action as practised today
is not equal opportunity for each individual. It (unsuccessfully)
seeks equal outcomes for each racial group. There are more disadvantaged
whites needing equal opportunity than blacks. Further, affirmative
action gives even middle-class blacks preference over disadvantaged
whites.
Unrefuted studies show that post-World
War II intelligence tests lack cultural bias, that intelligence
differs within and among races, that slavery and emancipation
didn't affect intelligence, that mixed ancestry does, and that
heredity is the most important factor determining intelligence.
They show that intelligence correlates positively with occupational
success, academic achievement, earnings, employment history, IQ
in children, and middle-class values -- and negatively with poverty,
crime and violence. Even some PC advocates find post-1950 racial
prejudice has little effect on disadvantaged blacks. Intelligence
is a necessary but not sufficient requirement for success.
….Comparing racial groups today and
correcting for IQ, salaries are nearly identical at all employment
levels (uncorrected, salaries lag), and blacks are six times over-represented
in the professions (uncorrected for intelligence, they lag). Under
affirmative action, black job performance is poorer. It reduces
black self-esteem and images of black competence. It is strongly
divisive, changing "e pluribus unum" to "us vs.
them." Prominent egalitarians agree
that affirmative action has failed. Nevertheless, since the original
1964 Civil Rights Act, affirmative action has subscribed to egalitarianism.
It assumes that extra schooling and time-on-the-job give dumb
persons greater cognitive ability. This is the basis for racial
bonuses on qualifying tests. Of the trillions of dollars >
spent on social programs since Lyndon Johnson was president, much
was spent on persons cognitively unable to compete or benefit,
but selected preferentially. Brighter persons able to benefit
are "scratched." ….The tragedy is that we have
spent trillions on symptoms of social problems but not the root
problem: How do we help our multiracial, cognitively disadvantaged
underclass (growing, isolated and unable to compete) enjoy fulfilled
lives?
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Benjamin H. Colmery is a Tallahassee retiree who holds a doctorate
degree from the Department of Social Systems Sciences at the University
of Pennsylvania. He can be reached by e-mail at sobeit@nettally.com.
This newsletter for the science and politics of differential psychology appears on Tuesdays. See also its Archives and related articles on psychology, heredity, individual liberty and William McDougall FRS.
Since April 1997, when Hillary Clinton invited
America's developmento-cognibabblers for prawn cocktail croissants
at the White House, the big question has been whether the New
Environmentalunacy -- claiming big possibilities for intervention
to stimulate the infant brain -- can gather any serious evidence
in its support. Every effort has been made to talk up the unsubstantiated
idea that listening to Mozart can benefit IQ; and California even
slapped a special tax of 50c on a pack of cigarettes to fund relevant
research on swaddling infants and toddlers.
In fact, the past two years
have been a disaster for the latest 'Head Start' cause. In the
autumn of 1999, reviewers in both Science and
Nature gave the thumbs down. Now the New Yorker
too has thrown out the idea. In a splendid six-page review of
John Bruer's book, The Myth of the First Three Years, readers
are given the reasons for thinking Hillary had been carried away:
Altogether, the advice to parents of toddlers must remain the classic 'Don't starve your infant, lock it in a cupboard or hit it on the head with a frying pan.' The New Yorker specially notes the weirdness of Hillary et al. subscribing to environmentodeterminism while hereditarians have since 1985 stressed that the chief consideration for a parent -- apart from selecting a high-IQ spouse -- is to allow children to make choices of environment for themselves, for children will often stick with environments that do them good so long as they have been able to select or create them in the first place. It is sad that such individualism and liberalism does not appeal to the First Lady as she embarks on trying to continue the Clinton dynasty into the new millennium.
Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics.) Edited by Erik Parens. 258 pp. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1998. $49.95.
This new book is all one can expect from modern academics about eugenics. It is entirely hopeless. The worthy 'bioethicists' don't mind a little tinkering to prevent outrageous pathology. But they are unhappy about parents trying to 'normalize' their children, let alone seeking exceptional positive traits. Such anti-elitist anxieties would be all very well of the writers had a line to defend -- a clear demarcation point between ethical efforts their committees would bless and cowboy operations that would require criminalization. In fact, the worthies have no idea. The only thing to be said for the book is that it leaves the coast clear for free market arguments. Parents who want children of choice should get going soon before other Marxist academics conjure up an impressive authoritarian argument to enable the continued birthing of children whom no-one really wants so that the Marxists' students can have jobs looking after such sorry casualties of recalcitrance in the face of Galton's arguments.
{The American Association for the Advancement of Science has spent the last two years wrestling with the thorny questions of how to restrict parents' freedoms. It has convened two working groups that are examining ethical and scientific issues surrounding germline gene therapy. A report, intended as a guide for policy makers, should be released early this year.}
{Reviewing the history of philosophical and scientific thought during the second millennium, the Millennium Magazine produced by Times and Times Higher (£UK1) concluded -- after efforts from Anthony Kenny and Roger Scruton -- by pondering whether eugenics might yet be revived. J. W. Burrow (Prof. European Thought, Univ. Oxford) said eugenics was "tainted, presumably irretrievably, by its association with genocide" and chemistry Nobelist Max Perutz (b. 1914) concluded it would be absolutely awful if parents chose the sex of their children. But it was interesting that such a magisterial review -- accompanied by a full range of journalistic visual aids -- should reckon it was Darwin and Galton (and not Einstein, Marx, Freud, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Habermas or Giddens) who were still making scholars think at the turn of the millennium. Chris Brand's new essays 'Sex and Society' [light-hearted] and 'Liberating the Future' [grey-bearded] both argue that Galton's ideas are now set to triumph, producing an unprecedented challenge to Western politics. The challenge will need to be met by a new rationalism, liberalism and individualism -- which alone can throw up the new types of vibrant community that are necessary as Christianity fades.}
To favour biodiversity is a clever way of being racist. The biodiversity enthusiast seeks to preserve and even increase genetic diversity -- so is unenthusiastic about large scale interbreeding and the destruction of races. Yet is diversity valuable? Ethnbotanist Paul Cox (King Charles XVI Professor at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre) has now set out the case for preserving the racial knowledge of herbal medicine rather than lose everything before the tide of globalization, i.e. Westernization. Presumably Cox's case is as impressive as can be found today. But it does not add up to much. A star finding selected by Cox is that a substance called prostratin, useful against Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1, has been identified as the active ingredient in a Samoan remedy for hepatitis that uses the stem root of the mamala tree. Responding to ethnodiversificationist researchers, the US government has promised the Samoans that there will be credit where credit is due. Unfortunately, over a decade the discovery has not proved to be of commercial significance: it "still languishes as one of several interesting lead compounds that have not been picked up by pharmaceutical firms", says Cox.
A Kentucky Fried Chicken shop in New York has a special offer it is calling a "bucket of Hillary" -- two small breasts, two large thighs and a bunch of left wings.
Cartoon in New Yorker (10 i '00): A prim literary professional womyn pronounces on the manuscript of a Neanderthal male who is seated by her desk, tarzan-suited, hairy-chested, club in hand, hearing her verdict with a glum expression: "We feel that your female characters are somewhat underdeveloped."
JANUARY 18
THIS WEEK:
Martin Luther King Holiday Issue
Paedophile Pride: CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER KING PROPOSED TO POPE AS 20th-CENTURY MARTYR
Race Differences: TABOO REVIEWED IN NEW YORK TIMES; PHIL RUSHTON DENOUNCED BY OWN PUBLISHER; U.N. DEPLORES STATE OF AFRICA
Racism Today: AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION ASKED TO COUNT RACISM AS ILLNESS
Neosocialism: PHONY TONY DENOUNCED BY CRONY
Jewish Studies: HISTORIAN DAVID IRVING WANTED FOR EXTRADITION TO GERMAN JAIL; JEWISH LEADER CALLS U.S. STUDENTS TO ARMS
Evopsychology: RANDY SOCIOBIOLOGISTS BACK RAPE AS NORMAL, SAYING GIRLS SHOULD COVER UP
Aggression: FEARLESS PSYCHOPATHS
LACK CORTISOL
DECATUR, Ill. (AP 17 i '00) -- One of the six expelled
Black students whose cause was championed by the Rev. Jesse Jackson
in 1999 has been arrested on charges stemming from a traffic violation,
police said. An officer on routine patrol reported seeing a vehicle
driving without its headlights at about 1:45 a.m. Sunday. The
driver stopped at the officer's direction, but then ran away.
Three passengers in the car identified the driver as a Black youth,
18-year-old Roosevelt T. Fuller, and he was arrested later at
his home. The arrest came just hours after a Saturday rally at
which Jackson had championed the cause of the expelled students
-- thrown out of school after a brawl at a high school football
game -- America's top civil rights battle. Jackson linked their
case to the Rev. Martin Luther King's birthday, saying King would
have fought for the students.
Fuller
was released on bail. Police were seeking misdemeanor charges
of resisting arrest and obstructing a police officer. Fuller was
also ticketed for speeding, driving without headlights and driving
an uninsured vehicle.He also faces charges of mob action, resisting
police and aggravated battery in connection with the football
game brawl.
At Saturday's rally, hundreds
of people packed the Church of the Living God to commemorate King's
birth and to hear Jackson declare the controversy in Decatur the
biggest civil rights issue in America today.
{URBANA, Illinois (CNN 11 i '00) -- A federal judge in Illinois ruled that the Decatur school board acted properly in expelling six Black students for fighting at a high school football game. The racially charged case had been adopted by the Rev. Jesse Jackson as an example of excessive school discipline disadvantaging Black youths and leading to their exclusion.}
BOSTON -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Baptist who led the US civil rights movement, is a candidate to be declared a Christian martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. Though noted in FBI files for his paedophilic involvements with teenage girls, King is among two dozen Americans to be considered by the Vatican for a list of 20th century martyrs that Pope John Paul II plans to unveil in May.
Showing the ongoing need for such martyrs, President Clinton, saying America had "too much discrimination" in the eighth year of his presidency, said he planned to give a new $98 million to the Justice Department's civil rights division to expand the investigation and prosecution of civil rights violations, including hate crimes and police misconduct. Though the U.S. economy overall is booming, Clinton said, minority unemployment and poverty rates are still about twice the national average -- an embarrassment to social-environmentalist ideas. In South Carolina, the Confederate flag continued to fly over the Senate House though Vice-President Al Gore announced, ''There is too much tolerance of intolerance and I think the flag should be removed from the state capitol.''
In Britain, plans for paedophiles to undertake good works -- possibly leading to sainthood -- are far advanced. A new police initiative called Voice Track will allow paedophiles to be monitored all day long to ensure that they doing good deeds that do not take them near schools, children's playgrounds, scout huts, brownie camps and other notorious hang-outs of policemen. Presently, tagging devices can only monitor whether an offender strays far from a surveillance unit installed in his home; and the devices (which allowed 14, 000 prisoners to be released from British jails in 1999) are typically switched off during the day. But with Voice Track, the offender is voice-printed saying the numbers from 1 to 100. Thereafter he can be paged at any time and obliged to report back and repeat specified numbers over a landline, thus securely indicating his whereabouts and confirming his identity. The only problem so far is that two-thirds of modern paedophiles turn out to have difficulty saying all their numbers for they have "serious difficulties with numeracy" (Independent 10 i '00).
Britain's star 'pervert', Gary Glitter, 56 -- cleared of
molestation by a jury but found guilty of paedophilic downloadings
and thus abandoned by the media and his family and friends --
is to resume his life of good works in Havana with cheeky, slim
and boyish Yudenia Sousa Martinez, 26. Havana is currently the
world capital of paedophilia, which provides poor families with
their only relief from a generation of communism. Glitter has
sold his UK property including a UK£100,000 yacht to invest
in the Caribbean island where he was once accused of trying to
seduce an 11-year-old girl.
Glamrocker Glitter
was released recently from Bristol Prison where he had spent two
months for downloading 4,000 paedopornic images, some of toddlers.
At a meet-the-press occasion in Regent's Park, London, Glitter
told paparazzi he regretted his crime before his voice broke into
tears and he was hurried off by car to a secret address where
he must wait eight weeks before leaving Britain. For Britain's
paedohysterical organization, Kidscape, Michele Eliot doubted
Glitter's sincerity and said it was outrageous that Glitter had
served less time than if he had committed a burglary. {No victim
of Glitter's naughtiness was ever identified; and his former girlfriend
with whom he had begun a ten-year liaison when she was 14, failed
in her attempt for revenge when a jury disliked her selling her
story to the tabloid News of the World. But it remains
for any leading figure in Britain to cite the academic defences
for high-IQ, over-12 and uncoerced paedophilic indulgence (Baurmann, 1983;
Rind, Tromovitch & Bauserman, 1997).}
In a triumph over 'Women for Justice' and kindred left-ish groups, marginal boxer Mike Tyson has been allowed to stay in Britain after a 90-minute hearing at London's High Court. Tyson has completely discharged his sentences for date rape, road rage and biting off the ear of lady boxer Amanda Holyfield; but he is a high-testosterone chap in a world where testosterone is considered by 'feminists' as equivalent to depleted uranium. Not even the fact that his rape victim, Miss Desirée Washington, had on her own account asked him to use a condom before intercourse was enough to convince feminazies that Desirée had let herself in for sex when she went on a late-night hotel date with the boxer. Tyson is deemed nasty, brutish and short on sensitivity. But now a British Home Secretary has thought better of challenging him at Heathrow Airport and a High Court judge has given him the green light to annoy PC types for the two weeks of his stay in England, leading up to a boxing match in Manchester.
LONDON -- Marking what may prove the end of his five years of
unprecedented popularity with the British electorate, Prime Minister
Tony Blair has been condemned by a Labour lord for under-funding
Britain's great white she-cow, the National Health Service.
Following a winter outbreak
of bronchitis, coinciding with the glitzy Blairennium* that flopped,
Lord Winston, a top professor of fertility medicine and today
Labour's most eminent supporter in the medical profession, told
the New Statesman's Mary Riddell the service is now in
a worse state than when Labour took over from the Tories in 1997.
Lord Winston said "we have been quite deceitful" and
spoke of a "conspiracy of silence" in which bad news
about the NHS was kept even from the Prime Minister. He blasted
funding arrangements as "not as good as Poland's" and
said services in his own particular field were "much the
worst in Europe". He used the example of his 87-year-old
mother, formerly Mayor of Southgate, North London, who was abandoned
in casualty for thirteen hours before being dumped in one of the
mixed sex wards Labour had pledged to abolish. Lord Winston said:
"None of her drugs were given on time, she missed meals and
was found lying on the floor when morning staff came on. She caught
an infection and she now has an ulcer on her leg."
Although the peer subsequently
grovelled to Phony Tony at Downing Street -- no doubt especially
regretting that he had let slip, to the annoyance of the five-month-pregnant
Cherie Blair, her plan to give birth by Caesarian section in Chelsea
& Westminster Hospital -- other senior white-coated whingers
from the NHS promptly stepped forward to agree with his original
complaint. As Whitehall spin-doctors failed to prove that Winston
was a geriatric has-been, the threat to Labour became so serious
that the Prime Minister had to give an impromptu address to the
nation on TV. In an unprecedented Sunday breakfast-time special
interview with government toady David Frost, Blair said he would
give nurses a UK£1,000 pay rise to seal their lips and that
the NHS would be OK in five years time if only people kept voting
for him.
The crisis for Britain's Third
Way administration coincides with fury among Labour left-wingers
at General Pinochet being let out of the country, at Mike Tyson
being let in, at fox-hunting continuing and at jury trials (a
main source of revenue for East London families near the Old Bailey)
being scaled down. Moreover, it turned out just before Christmas
that, after 30 months in office, the government has no coherent
plan for what to do about mounting traffic congestion on land
and in the air. Most leftists would unequivocally favour penal
taxation on private motoring; and they are said to be determined
to prevent the Government's planned money-saving privatization
of air traffic control. They are likely to score a victory over
Mr Blair in the coming election for a Mayor of London: bookies
now make 'Red Ken' Livingstone the favourite to win the contest
-- a huge embarrassment for Blair.
* Taking advantage of Mr Blair's discomfiture, Prince Charles has described the London Dome as "like a monstrous blancmange" (ClassicFM 16 i '00, 12:00). Last week, there were days on which the Dome was virtually deserted, having only four thousand visitors -- just twelve per cent of its anticipated daily trade.
{Since the grammar schools were destroyed by Labour around 1970, many Britons regard the NHS as the one tangible benefit they have to show for the hardship of their parents fighting two world wars. The system allows no choice by patients as to what ailments and constitutional handicaps are covered. It is obliged to maintain the illusion that every possible medical service is available -- including abortions, multiple transplants, tattoo removals and sex change operations. Necessarily, the system has long been more of a life-and-death service than a health service: the age of the average in-patient is 75. In December, Britain learned that its nurses are now lesbianized and no longer sport the once routine black fishnet stockings, wasp waists and Wonderbras. It may be that Mr Blair will never recover from his association with this blow to national morale. To bring UK health spending into line with that of other European Union countries would require an income tax hike of 7%.}
{Robert Winston grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family where he lost his father at age nine. He initially doubted the usefulness of in vitro fertilization methods; but he changed his mind and became a pioneer of pre-implantation diagnosis of abnormalities. He is chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology. He was presenter of the acclaimed television series, 'The Human Body.' He was not available for comment on Domey Tony's TV performance -- evidently gagged and bound by Blair's PR supremo, Alastair Campbell.}
{The British Liberal Party's Home Affairs Spokesman, Simon Hughes, has at last managed to describe the Blair Government as "authoritarian, conservative and ineffective." But his boss, party leader Charles Kennedy, is determined to hang on to the Liberals' co-operative relationship with Labour, 'for fear of getting something worse.'}
London's biggest legal aid-funded immigration law firm is said by the Independent to have been running a bogus asylum scam in which Black overstayers were given help concocting lies tailor-made to deceive the Home Office. Lawyers at Malik Law Associates are alleged to have coached immigrants from countries like Kenya to pretend they were survivors of war and genocide in Rwanda, Burundi or Somalia -- which would entitle them to asylum status and allow them to stay in the UK. Officials from the Law Society's Office for the Supervision of Solicitors have now closed down the company's two offices in Whitechapel and Hackney. Malik Law Associates was awarded London's largest legal aid immigration franchise, worth UK£3 million, last September under new rules set up to stamp out abuses of the legal aid system by immigration lawyers. Yet it is claimed the firm helped illegal immigrants obtain false identities and persuaded them to tell lies that they had been raped, imprisoned or had seen their families killed.
Akbar Malik, 43, was out of the country and unable to comment, though none of the allegations against his firm involve him personally and there is no suggestion he was aware of any malpractice. Malik's relation to anti-racist Guardian journalist Kenan Malik (author of The Meaning of Race, Macmillan, 1996) is currently unknown.
MACON, Georgia -- In a multicultural grovel, John Rocker, the fiery Atlanta Braves relief pitcher whose recent comments about minorities and gays ignited calls for his ouster, now says he was a "complete jerk" but not a racist. "I just lost my cool," he said. "A lot of people ... say things we really don't mean and most people have a luxury to come back after they've said something -- pull the person off to the side who they've offended and say, 'Look, I'm sorry. My words got ahead of my head. I apologize. I take it back.' Unfortunately for me, I make a comment like that in front of somebody who's got a tape recorder and pen and paper working. In front of a reporter, [if] you blurt it out, you can't get it back." Asked to explain how he could