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). Latest Press: Evening News [Edinburgh] 9 ii '99; Scotsman 12 vi '99.

This newsletter for differential psychology appears on Tuesdays. See its Archives and related articles on psychology, heredity, individual liberty and William McDougall FRS. Only the McDNL gives the up-to-date answers of genes-realistic psychology to the tired social-environmentalism, multiculturalism and political correctness of egalitarian ideologues and hysterical feminists. Only the McDNL challenges the media's worship of: (London) Profs Susan Greenfield, Germaine Greer, Steve Jones and Steven Rose; and (New York) Profs Jared Diamond, Ronald Dworkin, Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman, Stephen Jay Gould and Leon Kamin. Only the McDNL has backed Nobelist Daniel Carlton Gajdusek, multivariate psychologist Raymond Cattell (1905-1998), and social philosopher Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) as their names have given offence to today's neosocialists and kindred hysterics.

JUNE 1

THIS WEEK:
NEOSOCIALIST AUTHORITARIANISM versus PATRIARCHY, PEDAGOGUES, POOL PARTIES, POT, PRISONERS, PROPERTY and PUPILS [not to mention PAEDOPHILIA]

BRAIN SIZE BREAKTHROUGH ROUSES RACE REALISTS

APA STANDS BY FINDING THAT NONFORCIBLE PAEDOPHILIA IS LARGELY HARMLESS

HOW CHROMOSOMES ENABLE FREUD'S THANATOS

'HUMAN BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE' PROPOSED. -- 'RAGBAG' OF PSYCHOLOGY COULD BE DROPPED.

'Can we ever understand consciousness?'

MULTICULTURAL MUDDLES: Already divided as between Afro-worshippers and homosexualists, and with its leaders regularly accused by intellectuals of disproportionate bombing of Yugoslavia, neosocialism is encountering new problems. Its feminists are becoming openly restive about Asian patriarchy; and its druggies and 'anti-racists' abhor the 'tough on crime' policies that made Messrs Clinton and Blair so popular. Clinton's Job Approval Ratings Weaken. Dysentry Outbreak in Nato Refugee Camp. Chernomyrdin Provides Chance for Nato Extrication. USA Welcomes Milosevic Peace Offer -- but Bomber Blair Unhappy.

REVERED LIBERAL EDUCATIONIST'S SCHOOL MAY BE CLOSED BY NEOSOCIALISTS

EUGENICS BOOSTED BY LITTLETON LAWYER

PAEDO-HUNTING REACHES TOP DEMOCRATS AS NEOPURITANISM HUNTS VICTIMLESS CRIME

GLOBAL NEOSOCIALIST ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE ADMITTED BY AUSTRALIA

LEGGY LOVELIES DECLINE BUTCH STANCE

Brain, Evolution & Intelligence

The ancestors of the Neanderthals were taller and heavier than previously thought, say researchers at Madrid's Complutense University. The leading Spanish scientists speculate that 'brawn over brains' may have contributed to the Neanderthals' extinction.
      The anthropologists reached their conclusions after a five-year study of a 300,000-year-old fossil pelvis. The pelvis was put together from fragments found in 1994 in the key Atapuerca caves in northern Spain. Team director Juan Luis Arsuaga told the Spanish paper El Mundo that the newly discovered pelvis belonged to a pre-Neanderthal male between 1.73 to 1.80 meters (about 6 feet) tall who weighed at least 100 kilograms (about 220 pounds). The Nature article said that, despite their "armoured car" build, the Neanderthals became extinct because they failed to look after each other, whereas their weaker cousins, the descendants of modern man, were more social and were forced to depend on each other for survival. As adults, the Atapuerca hominids had brains that were smaller in relation to body mass than those of modern humans, supporting the brawn-over-brain theory.
      The study removes a major problem for the idea that brain size is linked with intelligence -- important to the study of human racial differences. In the past, the large brains of Neanderthals were an embarrassment to scientists like J. P. Rushton and A. R. Jensen who attributed low Black IQ to low brain size. Now these workers have been vindicated.
      This is the second breakthrough in a month for race scientists. In May, medical scientists at the University of Pennsylvania found that the large brains of males owed their size to white matter rather than to gray matter (McDNL 18 v '99). (Gray matter is where computation takes place, while white matter is responsible for communication between groups of cells in different areas of the brain.)

Phil Rushton writes (from the University of Western Ontario):
Over the last ten years, I had heard from two physical anthropologists that, once body size was controlled, Neanderthals were not bigger-brained than modern humans. The views of these anthropologists never made it into the popular media or even the textbooks. Now maybe they will. As you say, it is good news for race-realists and an anomaly cleared away.

Paedohysteria

(Last year, a review by Bruce Rind et al. -- from Temple, Pennsylvania and Michigan Universities -- of 59 studies found little demonstrable harm to result from adult-teenager sex contacts. Like other empirical work on paedophilia [notably that of M. C. Baurmann, 1983, for the German Department of Justice], this result ran contrary to the ideas of the paedohysteria industry which today provides the last bastion of social environmentalist ideology. The study was publicly condemned by a leading US Congressman and a chat show hostess. For more, see William McDougall NewsLetter 20 iv '99 and Wiley&ELUvsCRBhistory.htm.)

Faced with outrage from the US media and Congress over an empirical report that paedophilia does little harm to intelligent youngsters (except sometimes when violent and involving relatively young girls from unhappy homes), a senior executive officer of the American Psychological Association has issued the official response of US psychologists. Evidently, the most thorough attempt to fault the Psychological Bulletin report has left the APA with no option but to defend the study -- though in as mealy-mouthed terms as possible.

Subject: Controversy Regarding APA Journal Article

From: Ray Fowler, Ph.D.

To: DIVOFFICERS@LISTS.APA.ORG

Date: 25 May 1999

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You may be aware of an ongoing controversy regarding an APA journal article on child sexual abuse. Unfortunately, misinformation is being spread about this article by certain groups and some elements of the media. We don't question the right of those groups to express their own views vigorously, but in doing so they are distorting both the nature of the article and the policies of the American Psychological Association.
      Let me give you some background. Last July, APA published an article, "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples," by Rind, Tromovitch, & Bauserman, in Psychological Bulletin. The authors of the article reviewed the findings of 59 studies of college students who had, as children or adolescents, experienced some form of child sexual abuse. The authors subjected these studies to meta-analysis in an effort to determine the common factors across studies.
      The first overall finding was that those students who had been the victims of child sexual abuse were somewhat LESS well adjusted than those students who had not suffered such abuse. The next level of finding was that there was a great deal of individual variability in the reports of the abused students about how the experience had affected them -- their self-reports of their reactions ranged from highly negative to somewhat positive. That anyone reported childhood sexual abuse as "positive" may seem surprising and may be an artifact of both the criteria used to define child sexual abuse and of gender differences. Male adolescents were more likely to report neutral or positive reactions than females or younger children, whose reactions were reported as much more negative and whose long-term adjustment was more negatively impacted.
      Many factors seemed to determine the long-term effects of the abuse, including the sex of the child, the nature of the abuse (violent or non-violent), and the family environment. For example, the damage was greater and more long lasting among females, when violence was used and when the family was, in other ways, dysfunctional. The authors concluded that the effects of child sexual abuse vary with the individual, that some child sexual abuse victims perceived it, at the time and in retrospect, as a positive rather than negative experience, and that there was no support for the general belief that child sexual abuse always has long term negative effects on all victims. The article does not address the question of whether or not some of the students had received any form of psychotherapy, which may have ameliorated the long-term impact of childhood abuse experiences.
      Many of these findings, while answering important empirical questions, provided an opportunity for the article to be misrepresented as condoning sexual contact between adults and children, or at least failing to condemn it. Several months after the article was published, the Web site of NAMBLA (the North American Man-Boy Love Association) publicized the study as "Good News," misrepresenting it as support for their position in favor of sexual relations between men and boys. Subsequently, it was denounced by "Dr. Laura," a talk show host who spent hours attacking APA for publishing what she called "severely flawed" "junk science." This, in turn, attracted the attention of some members of Congress who participated in a press conference on the issue and subsequently submitted a resolution in the House of Representatives condemning the study and, by implication, APA. That resolution (attached) is currently referred to House Committee, but no action has been taken.
      The conclusions of the study have been strongly objected to by critics, even though the findings are consistent with, and, in fact, based on, the 59 previous studies. The report that some college students, who as children or adolescents had experienced sexual interactions with adults, reported it as positive has especially aroused anger and outrage. Many critics have demanded that APA repudiate the study.
      Because the article has attracted so much attention, we have carefully reviewed the process by which it was approved for publication and the >> soundness of the methodology and analysis. This study passed the journal's rigorous peer review process and has, since the controversy, been reviewed again by an expert in statistical analysis who affirmed that it meets current standards and that the methodology, which is widely used by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop guidelines, is sound. We also believe it asked a valid and important research question -- are there varying degrees of harm from child sexual abuse? Can the child's age, resiliency, and family environment lessen the ill effects of such abuse? There is no support in the article for a change in social policy or current law vis-à-vis pedophilia. In fact, the authors state that questions of harmfulness are separate from the question of the wrongfulness of the act.
      These conclusions have been distorted and misreported by various groups and media figures who are now claiming that APA is saying that child sexual abuse is not harmful to children, or that young children are capable of "consenting" to sex with adults. Of course, APA's position is just the opposite; child sexual abuse is harmful to children. Pedophilia is WRONG, should never be considered acceptable behavior, and is properly punishable by law. In response to the controversy, the Board of Directors approved a resolution on child sexual abuse reaffirming APA's longstanding policies on the topic (see below).
      In essence, we believe that, through this issue, science has been misrepresented to further the cause of politics and sensationalist publicity. That is ultimately a disservice to science, to society and to children. We are working hard to try and correct the record with those politicians and members of the media who care about the facts. You will find below a copy of the Board of Directors' resolution on child sexual abuse, which will be brought before Council in August for ratification. A statement that further outlines APA's position is also posted on APA's Web site if you want to direct colleagues who have questions to it. The citation to the article is below: the full text of the article can be located in the member services section of the APA Web site.

Citation:
Rind, B., Tromovitch, P., & Bauserman, R. (1998). A meta-analytic examination of assumed properties of child sexual abuse using college samples. Psychological Bulletin 124, 22-53. The full text can be located at: http://members.apa.org/governance/bulletin/

Attachments:
APA statement: http://www.apa.org/releases/childsexabuse.html
Congressional Resolution: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c106:./temp/~c106QXUgc8

If you have further questions about this issue, please contact public.affairs@apa.org

If you have difficulty accessing the article in the secure APA member area, please contact developer@apa.org

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Thanatos and Longevity

Biologists must have gazed thousands of times through microscopes at the 46 chromosomes in the nucleus of every normal human cell without perceiving what has now been discovered: the ends of the chromosomes -- the immensely long molecules of DNA that carry the genetic information -- are neatly tied in large, firmly knotted loops. The arrangement resembles that by which the end of a bootlace may be looped to prevent fraying.
      The discovery, reported in the top journal Cell, bears on a long-standing puzzle, that of why the cell does not mistake the ends of intact chromosomes for the broken ends of cut chromosomes. -- A broken chromosome end sends the cell into full panic mode: if it cannot repair the broken end, it will trigger its self-destruct mechanism and die for the common good rather than risk the genetic instability that leads to cancer.
      The loops provide the answer that no one had divined: normal chromosomes have no ends, only the perfect topological continuum of a circle. "This gives us a whole new way to think about how the telomeres may function," said Dr. Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University, referring to the end sections of the chromosomes. The discovery could lead to important insights about cancer and longevity, with which the telomeres are intimately connected. Each time a cell divides, its telomeres get shorter, as if marking off a finite number of permissible divisions. When the telomeres get too stubby, the cell is thrown into senescence and dies. Biologists recently had a taste of immortality when they found that human cells kept in culture would grow and divide indefinitely if their telomeres were artificially lengthened.
      The discovery could lead to important insights about cancer and longevity, with which the telomeres are intimately connected. One reason the loops had never been noticed before is the enormous length of DNA. Each cell has about six feet of DNA. Although there must be 92 terminal loops in each full set of 46 chromosomes, they would be hard to notice among the many accidental circles made by DNA molecules when they are spread out on a microscope slide. "If you take spaghetti and sling it on the floor, you'll occasionally see a little lassoo-like thing," Dr. Griffith said.

MORE CASH FOR USELESS RESEARCH AS
'DRUG PROBLEMS' OF LONDON'S GLITTERATI SURFACE

England has lost its esteemed rugby captain to a News of the World honey-trap in which he admitted taking 'illegal substances'. Within 24 hours of the revelation of his conversation with people he thought were arranging a Gillette sponsorship deal for the English team, 'youth role model' Lawrence Doolallyo, 26, previously 'squeaky clean', was bundled out by the Rugby Football Union with hardly time to think up his excuse -- that he had only been boasting to the young blonde with pulchritudinous poitrine supplied by News of the Screws to entrap him over drinks in a hotel bedroom.
      However, instead of embarking at once on legalization (and taxation) of recreational drugs, Britain's neosocialist Government announced that 30% of crime was due to illegal drugs and that it would bounce further down the American route and spend an extra £6 million on research into 'the links' between such drugs and crime.
      The News of the World exposure came hard on the heels of UK tabloid revelations that the Royal princes, William and Harry, had friends who were users of pleasure drugs: in particular their idol, the son of Mrs Camilla Parker-Knolls, Prince Charles' consort, uses cocaine, as do quite a few senior boys at English public schools. The prices of recreational drugs in Britain have been halved since 1995. Quality is said to be much improved; and drug strengths are now more reliable.

{In fact 70% of crime is alcohol-related. But nothing will stop neosocialists seizing the opportunity to expand statist endeavour -- even when they apparently know the link between crime and illegal drugs already. The extent of drug use among London's young and multi-talented males gives prodigious opportunity for blackmail -- when selected victims cannot already be brought down for pornographic downloadings, flirtation with fifteen-year-olds, race realism, insensitive sexism, 'stalking' or 'date rape.' However, neoliberalisation of drugs policy will be a concession that neosocialism will not want to make: the popularity of neosocialism among older and low-intelligence Whites derives from appearing 'tough' on the problems of drugs, sex and their combination in teenagers. Dull people of limited achievements may take especial pride in the fact that they do not do 'weird' things like smoking marijuana, downloading teen porn from the Internet or showing that interest in youth culture which is the very hallmark of paedophilia.}

Illiberalism

Showing the illiberalism of neosocialism, the Blair government is threatening to close England's most progressive school -- founded by a Scot who had been sickened by his own country's use of the tawse on children.
      Summerhill School, in Leiston, Sussex, was founded by the Scottish educational progressive, A. S. Neill (an Edinburgh University graduate) in 1922. Neill, who was an early British Freudian, was commended by Erich Fromm for his ideas, and is revered world-wide, held that emotions are as important as intellect. Summerhill works on the key principles that there will be plenty of love and no physical punishment. For three-quarters of a century, children have been able to choose which lessons they attended (if any), to smoke and to enjoy nude mixed bathing. From time to time, scandals would erupt into the British press (pregnancies, weenies on the Pill, 'illicit substances' etc.); but the overwhelmingly middle-class, often American and Japanese parents continued paying for such education either out of deep liberal convictions or to help difficult/disturbed children or both. Now, however, the fully private school has been censured by Ofsted (Office of Standards in Education), the schools' inspectorate in England and Wales, for not achieving enough A-Level passes for its pupils, for its nude bathing, for its 'unsupervised' sleeping accommodation for senior girls, and for allowing "the pursuit of idleness." (The report's only concession was that the pupils were "well-behaved and courteous, if often foul-mouthed.") Now this school for the idiosyncratic must oblige the state's petty tyrants (headed up by Chief Inspector Chris Woodhead -- who routinely prefers bullying to fast track learning, and who probably failed to take account of the inherited levels of neuroticism, psychoticism and personal inadequacy in Summerhill-using families). Otherwise Summerhill will have either to close in six months, or to become the first famous British school forced by neosocialism to re-locate in Belgium.

Currently the only line against populist democracy, i.e. mob rule, in the West is maintained by ancient Anglo-Saxon respect for property (and by the fact that money can buy newspapers and votes, at least in the USA). However, as neosocialists come to enjoy their new legalism, they will doubtless consider that sentences for crime are seldom harsh enough and should be unfailingly accompanied by loss of property, even to the fourth generation (as was the arrangement in twelfth-century Scotland -- as suffered by the McDougall clan). (After all, crimes such as insensitivity to women -- not to mention actual date rape or paedophile frottage -- are so horrendous that perpetrators should surely have no continued stake in a neosocialist world?... The new conservatives of the New Multiculturalist World Order will make the old rightists seem a bunch of spaced-out, er, flankers!) Now from the USA comes this:

The Supreme Court last week generously reduced the paperwork burden on cops itching to seize someone's car. As long as police allege that a car was involved in a narcotics violation, however long ago, Florida police -- and police in any state with similarly expansive laws -- now can confiscate the vehicle without even getting a warrant from a judge.
      ….The Clinton administration is pushing to make forfeiture laws even more sweeping. Justice Department lawyer Irving Gornstein told the Supreme Court in November 1997 that the government had a right to confiscate practically any property involved in a violation of law "except that one small category of cases where perhaps the property is involved in what might be a minor infraction, such as a parking offense."
      Asset-forfeiture abuses aren't new. A federal appeals court complained in 1992, "We continue to be enormously troubled by the government's increasing and virtually unchecked use of the civil-forfeiture statutes and the disregard for due process that is buried in those statutes." But the Supreme Court, the supposed defender of the Bill of Rights, has done little to curb these abuses. In fact, in January it said innocent owners have no right to information on how to recover property wrongfully seized by government agents.

Age of Consent / Paedohysteria

A former high school assistant principal who fathered two children with a pupil at his California school has been convicted of 'unlawful sex with a minor' despite the girl's testimony in his defense. Defense lawyers had argued that Miguel Vivanco, 43, of Costa Mesa, California, had engaged in sex with the girl only in Mexico, which would not have violated California's preposterous law setting the age of consent at 18. But an Orange County Superior Court jury deliberated for just two hours before convicting Vivanco. The teacher is married to and has three daughters by another of his former students from a previous school.
      Vivanco, who is free on his own recognisance pending sentencing on July 9, faces a possible three years and eight months in prison. Prosecutors claimed during trial that Vivanco and a 17-year-old girl who attended Rancho Alamitos High School in Garden Grove engaged in a sexual relationship that began in 1996. Vivanco worked at the high school from 1994 to 1998 and worked in the Garden Grove school district for 15 years.
      The girl, whom prosecutors labelled a ''totally hostile'' witness, also testified that sex took place only in Mexico, despite prosecution evidence that the two had a long relationship. Vivanco and the girl had two children.
      Juror Lucy Chandler told reporters after the verdict that she did not find the girl's testimony believable. ''They both admitted that it had been in Orange County at least a couple of times; but when they had time to work on their story together, they changed the location of intercourse to Mexico,'' Chandler said.
      Two other women who had attended Vivanco's high school also testified that Vivanco had sex with them. Both described encounters in his orange Porsche sports car.

Musclebound Manhood

The increasing muscularity of 'GI Joe' and other male toy figures reflects a growing cultural fixation with hypermuscular male physiques, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School. They suggest that the emergence of this unrealistic masculine ideal may contribute to body image disorders in young men. The researchers report that, in the case of GI Joe toys, ''not only have the figures grown more muscular, but they have developed increasingly sharp muscular definition through the years.'' The 1998 version of the 'GI Joe Extreme' action figure ''dwarfs his earlier counterparts with dramatically greater musculature and... an expression of rage which contrasts sharply with the bland faces of his predecessors,'' according to the authors. They point out that if 'Extreme's' dimensions were extrapolated to life-size, he ''would sport larger biceps than any bodybuilder in history. ''Even the Luke Skywalker and Han Solo 'Star Wars' figures have 'bulked up' since their introduction in the late 1970s, according to the authors, ''with particularly impressive gains in the shoulder and chest areas.''

{As Western educators discourage hierarchies related to intellect or moral achievement, 'jock' culture is taking over. In an increasingly feminazified world, men will take no pride in genius, initiative or courage but only in their ability to service the occasional woman recreationally in the manner of the gardener, 'Mellors', in Lady Chatterley's Lover. A West African future beckons for Western men -- while their women have their fingers on nuclear triggers to zap the last outposts of resistance to feminism that remain from Asia.}

Advance Delinquency Insurance

DENVER -- A lawsuit is being prepared against the parents of the two teen-agers who went on a rampage that left 15 people dead and more than 20 wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The family of Isaiah Shoels, the Black student shot to death, will sue the parents of Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, for $250 million for failing to supervise their child. The family's attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, who has also represented assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian, said Shoels was singled out during the massacre because he was African-American. "Our schools must never again become a shooting gallery. As a result of this suit we will gain subpoena power to assist in the continuing investigations," Fieger said in a statement released from his Michigan office. "Justice demands a full accounting of everyone who significantly contributed to this massacre. Klebold and Harris could not have developed and executed their violence without the negligence of the parents and possibly others," said Fieger's statement. Fieger said he intends to amend the lawsuit later to add other defendants who he believes were responsible in some way for the massacre in the Denver suburb of Littleton.

{Such a challenge, if successful, would represent an important step towards increasing parental responsibility -- thus encouraging eugenic practices. However, it would be important to have a definite contracted point [perhaps generally marked by 'number of years of sexual maturity x IQ', but subject to negotiation within each family] at which parental control and compulsory support would cease and the child alone would become responsible for its crimes and civil liabilities. Also, both parents and children would need to be allowed choice about state-school arrangements -- in particular, the option to advance teenagers out of dumbed-down classes.}

Paedohysteria

SALT LAKE CITY (APBNews) -- A 39-year-old aide to Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been taken into custody charged with sending child pornography over the Internet. The man had worked as a personal aide to Shriver and her husband, Sargent Shriver, at their suburban Washington, D.C., home since Oct. 1. Eunice Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy Jr. and mother of ABC anchorwoman Maria Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in 1968. Sargent Shriver, a former ambassador to France and organizer of the Peace Corps, was George McGovern's running mate in the 1972 presidential election. Police say the aide may have planned to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. Under US law, it is illegal to possess computer images of children engaging in sex, even if no real sexual activities by children were involved in constructing the images.

{There is still no sign of US Democrats moving to dampen paedohysteria and allow US teenagers as much freedom to correspond affectionately with adults as they have to get themselves pregnant or syphilitic by each other. The West is prepared to see its young girls prostituted for a peach brandy at fourteen by a fellow weenie; but it is prepared to turn half its youth to deception and blackmail by its 'tough' laws on the victimless crimes of taking drugs, and it wants all its male teachers to live in constant fear of accusations of insensitive speech and paedophile frottage.}

{As for 'likenesses', simulations and 'images', the latest 'outrage' among US film critics is that some of the characters of a new 'Star Wars' blockbuster remind them faintly of Whites [the liberal-democratic goodies], Blacks [the cheerful half-wits], Jews [the grasping slave-drivers] and East Asians [the maniacal paranoids]. Whether such horrific associations are to be blamed on faulty potty training, institutional racism or li'l ol' reality, there is no doubt that years more censorship lie ahead from neosocialist neopuritans so that no association between sex and children or between race and the g factor ever trouble their piety.}

Femilunacy

"Our Mother which art in Heaven" is to be given the green light by the new Bishop of Leicester. At his forthcoming inauguration, the Right Revered Tim Stevens will say a prayer addressing "God, Our Mother."

At Top Man shops all over the UK, men can now buy the latest fashion, sarongs which, though they look like beach towels, are effectively skirts. Times readers, however, reject the idea that this is a plot to emasculate them: they have pointed to extensive use by British sailors in the Far East of items like the lungi, the laplap, the sulu and the sarong. {The Scottish penchant for the kilt may have given US evangelist Pat Robertson the idea that Scotland is a land of wooftahs -- an idea which, once expressed on air, led to the end of a multi-million dollar deal whereby fundamentalist Americans would have been encouraged to leave all their money in the Bank of Scotland.}

The National Health Service has now been revealed to spend eight times as much on women as it does on men. This is chiefly because women live longer -- whereas stressed-out men obligingly die early of alcohol poisoing, lung cancer and suicide.

Reflecting on the lot of males today, McDNL heroine Melanie Phillips {cf. McDNL 1 ix '98, 'Observer pinkoes lose star columnist'} writes (Sunday Times 30 v '99): "The Government is destroying the idea of the male breadwinner. It refuses to provide incentives for couples to marry. Whether by accident or design, the Home Office is endorsing the feminist agenda."

LONDON (BBCR4UK 26 v '99, 08:10; Times 28 v '99) -- Feminism versus Orientalism  -- Left-wing Labour MP Ann Cryer has taken up with the Rev. Blair and his Ministers cases known to her in which British Asian {i.e. Srindopakeshi} girls are threatened with death by their mothers unless they abandon White boyfriends and make marriages arranged for them with men from the Indian subcontinent. Ann Cryer's action coincided with a High Court judge, Mr Justice Singer, revealing that he had organized what he admitted was "a bogus and unenforceable court order" to retrieve from the Punjab a 17-year-old girl 'abducted' from Britain by her own parents so as to make an arranged marriage. The judge demanded schools and social workers take more action to prevent such cases; he said 'abduction was still abduction' even when inflicted by parents on a child approaching adulthood. {Stories of hit men being used to terrorize Asian daughters are seldom investigated by British feminists for fear of disturbing the alliance of 'antiracism' and 'antisexism' that is central to neosocialism; but Ann Cryer has now produced for newsies a young mixed-race couple who have been in hiding for six months -- apparently fearing the wrath of the Asian girl's parents. This week, in England, an Asian woman and her son were convicted of murdering a daughter of their family. The girl had become pregnant by an Asian factory-worker lover who had not been deemed of suitable caste for the family's honour. Each year, some 1,000 Srindopakeshi girls are thought to be abducted from Britain to make forced marriages.}

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The small United Democratic Party, which enjoys much support from Cape Coloureds, is being intimidated by the African National Congress. The ANC is seeking a two-thirds electoral vote so it can embark on redistribution of even more White property than is already seized in South Africa by burglary. Some ANC leaders have said openly, "If we can't beat them, we'll kill them"; and already several UDM leaders have been shot and their homes arsoned.

PITTSVILLE, Maryland (APBNews.com) -- A 10-year-old boy was charged with criminal assault for pulling the bra straps of five 8-11-year-old girls at an after-school programme Sheriff Hunter Helms said the charges met his department's criteria of assault and, despite the boy's age, the bra-snapping incidents were being treated just as if they had involved adults. June Million, director of public information for the National Association of Elementary School Principals admitted, "It's not good to be arrested at that young age," but said, "This is the time to get a hold of it so that something bad doesn't happen down the line." The incidents took place only days before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled public schools will be held financially liable if they fail to stop sexual harassment among students. {American schools and prosecutors live in terror of feminazies; and the pressures are so well known that mischievous children will contact headteachers on their mobile phones threatening to sue schools that do not take 'harassment' incidents seriously. The sport that started on PC campuses has now spread nation-wide.}

LONDON -- The High Court has declared the sudden Government restrictions {McDNL 22 ix '99} on the prescribing of the bonk-boosting drug Viagra as unlawful and an interference with the proper functions of GPs. Pfizer, who manufacture the new drug that has brought widespread domestic satisfaction, were awarded legal costs and may now pursue a suit for millions of pounds against Britain's National 'Health' Service. The Times (27 v '99) has urged a national debate on which drugs should be rationed to its compulsorily contributing clientele -- e.g. Xenical and the coming Sibutramine [both for obesity], Seroxat [for shyness and premature ejaculation], Aricept [for Alzheimer's] and Rilutex [for motoneurone disease]. {Any overt rationing will constitute the first overt breach in the NHS and accelerate the process of Britons choosing suitable private insurance so that they can avail themselves of the latest medical advances -- a move from their current dependency on state paternalism.}

LONDON -- The suspect in the recent racist nail-bombings turns out to have been present at a British National Party meeting in 1997 (Scottish Mirror 25 v '99). Photos of a meeting where violence flared between BNP and 'Anti-Nazi League' have been found which show the youth near to the blood-spattered BNP leader. (Previously London police had maintained the nail-bombing suspect was most likely a 'lone wolf.')

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) -- Spankers' Corner -- The Los Angeles-based Children's Institute International criticized the legislature of Oklahoma for a bill passed this week. Reacting to the Colorado school shootings, the measure amends Oklahoma's state laws to make clear parents may use corporal punishment. Oklahoma plans to remind parents they can spank, paddle or whip their children. However, the California child welfare group says this will 'promote child abuse.'

ABINGDON, Oxfordshire (Times 15 v '99) -- The forty-year-old matron of famous Abingdon School (a thirteenth century foundation, where chapel attendance is still compulsory for boys) has been expelled after being found in flagrante delicto with an eighteen-year-old male pupil. School authorities reported they had gone into deep shock; but several pupils told journalists they thought the long-running affair really "cool" [a term of high approbation among Britoid youf of the 1990's].

SWANSEA (Times 15 v '99) -- Home proved no castle for top English lawyer Jonathan Brierley, 37, when he took his sixteen stone frame in Boxer shorts and shirt to the bedroom of a couple whom he had entertained for the evening. Brierley initiated a little hanky panky under the sheets with the lassie of the piece, a 24-year-old brunette. The trio had spent the evening consuming eleven bottles of JB's red wine; but the couple was unforgiving and JB found himself sentenced to something ghastly by the High Court for indecent assault and placed for life on the Sex Offenders' Register. JB had a previous conviction for non-sexual assault. {At least JB will have the satisfaction of helping to give the Sex Offenders' Register a good name -- it was introduced in response to paedohysteria.}

NEW YORK -- Five White police officers testified that another White officer had sodomized a Black man with a night stick. He had thought (incorrectly) his victim, who was subsequenly made to lick the stick clean, was the Black man who had assaulted him as arrests were made at a night-club. Black activist Rev. Al Sharpton was delighted with the confession -- though claiming that other White officers should have shared the blame for the incident.

CANBERRA (The Age 23 v '99, Duncan Campbell [famed for espionage reporting]) -- Australia has become the first country openly to admit that it takes part in a global electronic surveillance system that intercepts the private and commercial international communications of citizens and companies from its own and other countries. The admission about signals intelligence (sigint) has been made by the director of the Defence Signals Directorate, which operates in co-operation with UK and US agencies. Faxes, phone calls and e-mails are all intercepted as they bounce off satellites, or by pods attached to deep sea cables by nuclear submarines. Messages are searched using dictionaries of key words and phrases. Supposedly, only messages suspected to relate to 'serious' criminal activity are read by neosocialist authorities.

LONDON (CFMR 28 v '99) -- A paedophile who stopped his car in the seaside town of Eastbourne and somehow 'snatched' two 10-year-old girls known to him and 'bundled them into the boot' has been sentenced to nine sentences of life imprisonment. The man had taken the girls to his flat above a supermarket and submitted them to a four-day 'ordeal' from which they emerged entirely unscathed. The paedophile, who had a previous conviction for abduction, had co-operated fully with the police and pleaded guilty to everything throughout [the public could not be told the details], sparing the girls the 'further ordeal' of a court appearance -- or, at least, the ordeal of endless interviewing by paedohysterics and allied social workers. {In future, wise paedophiles will murder such girls if only they can muster the required common sense -- for their sentences in the UK could hardly be higher.}

BRISTOL (Times 28 v '99) -- A respected English literature specialist has been sacked from Bristol University for paedophilic downloadings. A public court further fined him, put in on Britain's Sex Offenders Register (obliging him to maintain contact with the police), and unloaded £UK3,500 costs into his lap. Dr Anthony Atkins -- who accepts his academic career is at an end -- has written noted works on D. H. Lawrence and J. M. Barrie (himself normally thought to have had paedophilic inclinations). He maintained that the pictures he had downloaded were to have assisted with his research.

LONDON (Sunday Times 30 v '99) -- Falling exam standards are the Labour Government's way of boosting pass rates, claim social scientists. Dr Martin Turner, the head of psychology at the Dyslexia Institute, says planned relaxations of exam conditions will extend to far more than diagnosed dyslexics and allow as many as a quarter of O-Level examinees -- any who just have poor spelling -- to have 40% more time than other candidates. Backing this up, Sheila Lawlor of the independent think-tank Politeia said that Education Minister David Blunkett was engaging in "educational fraud."

COVENTRY -- Dysgenics? -- The National Health Service has plenty of spare cash for the disabled. Nurses and carers these days become involved in soliciting sexual partners, including prostitutes, for the disabled, according to Dr Sarah Earle of the University of Coventry (latest Journal of Disability and Society). Carers are also expected to undress the disabled to prepare them for sex with partners. {The contraceptive precautions taken are currently unknown.}

Race Profiling Revolt -- and possible sequelae

1990'S NEOSOCIALISM PROMISED WHITES IT WOULD CONTROL INFLATION AND CRIME. IT ONLY WANTED TO FAVOUR A FEW MINORITIES AT LAW -- BLACK STUDENTS, NON-PAEDOPHILIC SODOMITES, SCOTS, IRISH, WELSH, DISABLED, HARASSED HOUSWIVES ETC. YET THE MINORITY THAT WANTS A BIG FAVOUR IS THAT OF THE ONE MILLION BLACK MEN IN US JAILS.

E-mail groups on the Net have been humming with discussions of how the police should set about looking for criminals. -- Should cops concentrate their enquiries on young Black males, or should elderly White females be stopped and strip-searched (or just be gunned down by 19 bullets without needing to complete questionnaires) with equal frequency?
      Now the controversies that have preoccupied the USA for the past two months have reached the attention of the BBC (Radio 4 UK, 29 v '99, 08:00). The problem is plain. Through the period of the right's popularity in the 1980's, the creators of neosocialism realized the merits of being pro-police and pro-Laura Norder (long the right's favourite pinup). Now, however, as neosocialism has become so popular, the traditional supporters of liberal-leftism are getting fed up. Now that US police have admitted to 'race-profiled' stopping of cars on the New Jersey turnpike and to sodomizing occasional arrestees with their night-sticks, a head of steam has built up; and the case of the innocent African immigrant who died in New York in a hail of bullets as a rape suspect has brought glitterati to the scene.
      Perhaps traditional liberal-leftists and peaceniks will even come to criticize the swaggering savagery of Emperor Clinton and his right-hand Archbishop Blair in Serbia? This would be a major development that would highlight the degree to which neosocialism is the new authoritarian conservatism that has no coherence except its grotesque effort to favour 'minorities' and to convince many people (especially women) that their minority status is the most important thing about them.
      Yet there is an even bigger problem for neosocialism. Once anti-authoritarianism comes back into fashion, attention is bound to turn to the way in which neosocialism's success has been achieved. As the West begins to see the scale of its monstrous destruction of Serbia, someone is bound to notice America's new version of slavery -- the one million Black men confined till senescence in America's jails where their only function seems to be to sodomize minor criminals who are too pathetic by nature to have joined protective prison gangs. Winston Churchill once said, famously, that it was reasonable to judge a nation by the state of its prisons. As that judgment is passed, the attraction of legalistic neosocialism will pall. Plainly most people must be able to live more of their own lives than is possible in a maximum security prison; and those possibilities for unwanted deviants are usually recognized as 'having their own country' or of working as indentured labour on strict terms of good behaviour. It may not be too long before Black American convicts pioneer the way to a cantonized America, to an America where employer-employee contracts can be serious, or even to an Africa where the Aids-ridden population is replenished by mature Blacks whose health and education has been carefully tended in American jails and who will welcome the opportunity to live in freedom and contribute to some society -- even if that society cannot be tthe United States.

LONDON, 22 v '99 -- The British Helsinki Human Rights Group, a non-governmental organization which has been involved in a variety of activities in the Balkans, such as monitoring civil elections in the last several years, has just issued a report about NATO's war on Serbia. It said: "There is little optimism that much good will come out of the tragic war over Kosovo. Other places have been watching events in the Balkans with interest. For example, a Polish diplomat publicly stated that neighbouring Belarus "met all the conditions for a similar invasion by the West." And during the recent presidential campaign in Slovakia, people have been told by state and private media that if they vote for Vladimir Meciar the country will meet the same fate as Yugoslavia. In the Caucasus region there is unease about the future of disputed regions like Nagorno Karabakh. The question is: will the United States and its allies have the stomach for taking on any more adventures of this kind? If they do, the world could face the nightmare predicted in George Orwell's 1984 with small, low-grade wars going on all the time while people become dehumanized, impoverished and ultimately reduced to meaninglessness."

Nato's astonishing record of minimal war casualties is turning out to have been a maximal propaganda exercise. The Apache helicopter that Nato said had probably hit power lines on May 5 was probably shot down by the Yugoslav anti-aircraft defences, according to a May 23 report in Germany's Welt am Sontag (World on Sunday). Citing a "secret report" issued by NATO experts, the German newspaper said the Apache exploded in the air and went down in a ball of fire -- thus ruling out mechanical or human errors as the cause.

Both sides upped the ante -- perhaps preparing for what all will be able to greet as a wondrous peace. The West had Mr Milosevic indicted as a war criminal and prepared thousands more troops for an outing to the Balkans; Russia's Viktor Chernomyrdin said that nuclear war had never been so near since 1989.

Evidently Judge Louise Arbour, the nice lady at INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA who has served notice on Mr Milosevic, has yet to find time to process demands {e.g. McDNL Spring '99} that Nato leaders be indicted for the disproportionality of Nato's response to whatever Mr Milosevic did to his ethnic Albanians in mid-March.
      In Greece, a representative poll of 1,000 adults showed 69.7 per cent of Greeks want Mr Clinton tried for war crimes and 35.2 per cent want the British Prime Minister, Mr Blair, charged over NATO's campaign of air strikes against Yugoslavia (Irish Times 27 v '99). Only 14 per cent believed Mr Milosevic should face international sanctions for his role in the repression and expulsion of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population. {Certainly, it is astonishing for Nato to be bombing a whole country -- where civilians are now typically without electricity -- when it claims only to want to punish Mr Milosevic and a few of his leading henchmen.}
      In Russia it was the same. Mr Chernomyrdin told the Washington Post (27 v '99): "Before the air raids, 57 percent of Russians were positively disposed toward the United States, with 28 percent hostile. The raids reversed those numbers to 14 percent positive and 72 percent negative. Sixty-three percent of Russians blame NATO for unleashing the conflict, while only 6 percent blame Yugoslavia. These attitudes result not so much from so-called Slavic fraternity as because a sovereign country is being bombed ... This approach clashes with international law, the Helsinki agreements and the entire world order that took shape after World War II." He continued: "Just as Soviet tanks trampling on the Prague Spring of 1968 finally shattered the myth of the socialist regime's merits, so the United States lost its moral right to be regarded as a leader of the free democratic world when its bombs shattered the ideals of liberty and democracy in Yugoslavia. .…Now that raids against military targets have evidently proven pointless, NATO's armed force has moved to massive destruction of civilian infrastructure -- in particular, electric transmission lines, water pipes and factories. Are thousands of innocent people to be killed because of one man's blunders? ….[I fear it will] no longer be possible to thwart the proliferation of missiles and nuclear arms -- another negative consequence of NATO's policy. Even the smallest of independent states will seek nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles to defend themselves after they see NATO's military machine in action. The danger of global instability looms, with more new wars and more victims."

ATLANTA , 27 v '99 -- Former US president, Jimmy Carter, still a member of the New World Order's inner circle (CFR, TLC, Bilderbergers), added his own voice to a chorus of protests against NATO's war on Serbia. In an OpEd piece published today by the New York Times, Carter said that, "even the most severe military or economic punishment of oppressed citizens is unlikely to force their oppressors to yield to American demands."
      Carter also spoke out against the use of cluster bombs by the Pentagon. "The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines)."

Correspondents of the London Times continued 5-3 against the two months of bombing by Nato. Columnist Simon Jenkins wrote: "Kosovo has been reduced to a ruin by Nato's hopeless strategy: the only hope now is the return of the monitors." A Fellow of Jesus College Oxford also condemned Nato's bombing campaign as disproportionate and manifestly unlawful (BBCR4UK 28 v '99, 22:00). And both the panel and audience of BBCR4UK's 'Any Questions', coming this week from Ireland, was overwhelmingly opposed to the bombing and to the "hypocrisy" of nominating Mr Milosevic as a human rights monster.

Like Times leading articles, the New York Review of Books had no regrets about the war. However, though Warren Zimmermann, the former US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, condemned Slobodan Milosevic as authoritarian, duplicitous and ruthless (NYRB 10 vi '99), he made four interesting admissions:

1. "Nato's bombing campaign undoubtedly accelerated the implementation of Milosevic's expulsion strategy." {A damning indictment of the particular 'humanitarian intervention' that was chosen!}
2. Nato's strategy of low-risk bombing and declining to deploy troops in Kosovo has been "recklessly counterproductive." {With a friend like this, think what Nato's enemies will be able to prove if they win concessions in the conflict and have Nato leaders indicted as war criminals!}
3. Milosevic himself has consistently represented himself as "an apostle of multi-ethnic co-operation." {This is not going to play well in New York as it finally emerges that Milosevic was only driven to ethnic clearances by Nato's insistence on total surrender to them of the whole of Yugoslavia at Rambouillet.}
4. Milosevic is "a brilliant negotiator." {Enough said!}

28 v '99 What can explain Mr Milosevic holding out?

• Serbian national pride in endurance?
• Serbian pig-headedness?
• Slobbo knows the latest Nato bluster is merely the agreed prelude to a settlement?
• Slobbo knows the Chinese have agreed to help him if Nato does not soon surrender?

WASHINGTON (Truth in Media <http://www.truthinmedia.org/> 28 v '99) -- Walter Rockler, a Washington-based lawyer and a prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial after WW II, said in a May 23 Chicago Tribune OpEd piece that, "those (like Bill Clinton) who live in glass houses should be careful about throwing stones." "We have engaged in a flagrant military aggression, ceaselessly attacking a small country, primarily to demonstrate that we run the world," he said. The rationale offered by Clinton to justify this attack on a sovereign country, "does not lessen the culpability of the authors of this aggression." In support of his judgment, this Washington lawyer cites a Nuremberg court order:

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

At Nuremberg, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Robert Jackson, the head of the American prosecution staff, asserted that, "launching a war of aggression is a crime that no political or economic situation can justify."

WASHINGTON (Reuters, 30 v '99) -- A Gallup poll released Thursday showed 53 percent of American adults approved of the way Clinton was doing his job. This was the lowest rating of his second term and down from 70 percent -- the highest of his presidency -- during his impeachment trial in February. Only 49% approved of the bombing of Serbia. White House officials acknowledged Kosovo was taking a toll on Clinton's ratings. ``A substantial military action in a foreign country, when it doesn't have swift results, leaves people concerned,'' presidential counselor Ann Lewis said. The Clinton administration was blamed by 59 percent of those polled for letting China obtain nuclear secrets, though a greater majority of 65 percent spread the blame to previous administrations as well.

At Varvaran, south of Belgrade, 20 died in as Nato hit a bridge, a church, a sanatorium and an old people's home. Among the injured was London Times journalist Mrs Eve-Anne Prentice.

Dysentry and meningitis have been among the conditions breaking out in the Nato's refugee camp at Cegrane, Macedonia (Times 31 v '99). So far at very least 750 cases of head lice have occurred, requiring all children to be shaved by local barbers; and there have been 250 cases of scabies. Running water at the camp is not officially suitable for drinking; children play in streams polluted with effluent; and temperatures will soon be reaching 45 degrees Centigrade.

The New Statesman's US Correspondent, Andrew Stephen, remains convinced that Bomber Blair was soundly reprimanded by Emperor Klinton for becoming too excited about the humanitarian and photo opportunities provided by the war (31 v '99). "America is desperately trying to extricate itself," write Stephen. John Pilger reports that the German Foreign Ministry found Appendix B of Rambouillet -- given to the Serbs as the last moment, and leading to war within two days -- as "a complexte surprise." Germany will not commit ground troops to Kosovo, though it will not veto American or British deployment.. John Pilger wonders whether America and Britain might even have planned the bombing in order to provide an overweaning Europe with a problem that will preoccupy it for many years to come -- for America and Britain have largely avoided taking refugees and seem to be reckoning that the Continentals will end up paying for the bombing and the reconstruction.       

Meanwhile, as Nato member Turkey opened its trial of the Kurdish leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who will almost certainly receive a death sentence, stories abound of critical lawyers and journalists being harried, forced to sing Turkish marching tunes and raped. Nato has named deterrence of ethnic cleansing as its original motivation for its disastrous operation in Yugoslavia; but Russia has renewed tough measures in Chechnya and the new Russian prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, going beyond Mr Milosoveic's ideas, has said "Those who rob and kill should not be punished but eliminated" (Times 31 v '99).

The former editor of the Times, William Rees-Mogg says that Nato's bombing would fall foul of the judgments made at Nuremberg (Times 31 v '99, 'By flouting UN authority, Nato is putting its entire future in doubt'). President Nelson Mandela of South Africa has also condemned Nato's campaign, saying it was "equally criminal" to what Slobodan Milosevic had done.

On its part, Nato has pretended to prepare for a ground intervention involving as many as 150,000 troops. Mr Milosevic is unlikely to have been fooled by this: a ground war between his well-dug-in defending forces and US conscripts would be just what he needs -- a breath of fresh air. Some say he might in any case attack Nato troops in Macedonia before Nato troops get their bearings. So he has offered a deal: British and French Nato troops will be most welcome in Macedonia and Albania where they can police the KLA; a small number of Italian troops will be allowed to shepherd a few Kosovans having documentation back into an enclave and impress TV crews and their gawpers back home; Ukrainian Belorussian and other non-Nato troops would have a free run in Kosovo to prevent Nato expansion and look after ethnic-Serbian Kosovars….

Quotes of the Week

"Our countries are not enemies any longer. We are on the same side now."
      Sergei Khrushchev, 63, son of USSR Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev who had told the West in the 1960's, "We will bury you." (Sergei will become a US citizen next month. Once a rocket scientist in the USSR, he became a lecturer at Brown University's Centre for Foreign Policy Development in 1991.) {No wonder the Serbs think Russian has betrayed them!}

"I remember Jack Straw {current UK Home Secretary} explaining in the 1960's that drugs had to be banned because there was not enough information. I don't know where he's been the last thirty years, but I have smoked a lot of marijuana and it hasn't harmed me."
      David Hockney, the artist, in London with his panoramic paintings of the Grand Canyon which will be on display at the Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition. Reported in the Times 27 v '99.

"These past few weeks, I have hardly come across a single defence expert, military historian, political commentator or intellectual of any discipline who doesn't think of the conflict in Kosovo as a disaster -- morally, politically or both."
      Ferdinand MOUNT (long-standing British political commentator), Sunday Times 30 v '99. {Mount went on to argue that, to the contrary, the Kosovo bombing "is a rational exercise in deterrrence."}

"Morale in academia is so low that all the dons I spoke to -- on both sides -- of the Atlantic asked to remain anonymous."
      Amanda FOREMAN, former Oxford donette, Sunday Times 30 v '99.

"I try to spread my missionary word about detailed realism."
      Tom Wolfe (the lean, courtly, dandified chronicler/author of Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full), interviewed as 1999 winner of the ST's New Literature Prize, Sunday Times 30 v '99.

Glayde Whitney's Week 9

The Whitney Witch-Hunt at Florida State University is not over but it has gone very quiet. The reason is the ending of the spring semester for FSU at the same time as the end of the Florida government's legislative session. There are still some very unhappy lefties on campus; and, in the Psychology Department, there are rumours of lobbying for the hiring of another person in behavior genetics and/or more black faculty in general -- so as to 'balance' the incorrect views of America's only known race realist.
      In fact, the Psychology Department at FSU is already notable for its breadth of coverage. It does not just provide a home for Glayde. It also houses Professor Ni'am Akbar, a teacher of Afrocentrism, a self-avowed racist [no White professor could get away with that!], and a former president of a Black Psychologists' Association. With that kind of breadth already on offer, the unhappy lefties should look to other amusements -- like working out whether they condemn war criminal Klinton or are leaving that to socialist colleagues of the Chinese and Serbian People's Republics.

Human Sciences

In view of the failure of psychology as a subject -- without a single decent guru since the deaths of Jean Piaget, Henri Tajfel and Hans Eysenck, and smashed into pieces as each researcher grubs for money in his (or, as likely, her) own way -- it may be time for a rearrangement of the social sciences. Certainly Bruce Mazlish has a new name for the overall umbrella he seeks to erect. According to him, the human sciences, including a few bits and pieces from biology and some big chunks from the constructibabbling arts, should be called The Uncertain Sciences. So that is the title of his book (newly published by Yale University Press, £UK25).
      Sadly, Mazlish's book fails to address the question of what all Mazlish's favourite 'sciences' have in common; and it is dominated by Jurgen Haberman, Michel Foucault and Thomas Kuhn (with barely a mention of Darwin, Freud and Adam Smith) so Mazlish is attempting the unlikely feat of combining relativism and realism. Just because plants are of interest to botanists, horticulturalists, cooks, agricultural economists, still life artists and interior decorators, that does not mean that there is much in common between those disciplines. 'Human science' may be an attractive-sounding term. Oxford University even established a degree in the 'subject' around 1970. Yet a science needs to champion its explanans, not its explananda: physics is about what makes up atoms; chemistry is about how the arrangements of atoms explain molecules; physiology uses chemistry to explain cells; biologists use cells to explain life. Even in the social sciences themselves, the really interesting and coherent exercises are those of using kinship (social anthropology), class (psychology) and the unconscious (psychoanalysis) for all they are worth to give purchase on data. Without their key explanatory concepts, all of these disciplines would be mere hobbies or interests. It is only the wretched non-discipline of modern psychology -- today without any agreement on any list of basic motivations or abilities or types of learning or mental mechanisms -- that has to rely on diversions (statistics, 'strategies' and complex interaction effects) to pretend something is happening. It would be bizarre for it to be thought that a range of 'human sciences' from French deconstructibabbling through to molecular genetics would somehow rectify the problem that the history of psychology has made very starkly obvious: that without concepts like the g factor, eros, thanatos and maternos, there is never going to exist a science of the mind -- even if a rational being's dealings with the world will always lend themselves to understanding in terms of affinity, hierarchy and money-grubbing.
      By contrast, there is a serious science to be found in psychogenetics, in the exploration of whether and how genetic factors influence behaviour, personality and experience. Sadly, few modern 'human scientists', and even fewer 'social scientists' dare begin to acknowledge the twentieth-century victory of genetic factors which most of them have done their damnedest to prevent and disparage. In view of what the methods of 'human biosocial science' -- those of the population geneticist, the trait theorist and the psychoanalyst -- find to be the key causal nodules in the human morass, it would be better to pursue such inquiries than to pretend there is some wider subject that embraces Darwin and Derrida. It may suit cogniburbling deconstructionists and strategy enthusiasts to welcome a vast range of endeavours as similar to their own in having no 'certain' purpose or results. Yet that has not been the position for differential psychology which has since 1970 come very near agreeing a 'Big Five' (or Six) main constellations of influence in human affairs. [One of them, g, has substantial broad heritability; the others (personality traits like neuroticism/emotionality) are especially dependent on gene-gene interaction and gene-environment covariation.] Now is not the time to abandon such hard-won explanations in favour of compromise whether with the class-ism of Karl Marx, the cultural relativism of Franz Boas or the hermeneutical meanderings of Jacques Derrida.

{An example of broad-brush 'human science' is reviewed in this week's Nature. Called Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: the Nature of Co-operation in Animals and Humans (by Lee Dugatkin). The book reviews evidence for four types of altruism -- favouring genetic kin, trusted reciprocators, accidental bystanders and any group that is itself a unit on which selection occurs. This sounds good news for students. However, the book's objective of making practical improvements to the human condition is hardly attained: nepotism [using the wisdom of kinship] and smaller social units [encouraging reciprocity] are the main but hardly inspirational proposals. What enthusiasts for altruism neglect is that as much good in the world comes from thanatos as from eros: valuable ideas and relations are those that survive ruthless winnowing, not those that all too easily result from casual though charming affinities. A substantial civilization is bound to use all the hypotheses that can be put forward in language and exposed to falsification. It success will depend on the very antagonisms that it can at once generate yet contain -- as in the Western tradition of courts and parliaments. To find nepotism and parochialism recommended by a human scientist is to be reminded of the limits of 'human science' without ideas.}

Consciousness -- The Latest / Student Special

Today's three main views of consciousness, and its connection with the brain, are outlined and critiqued in a fine review by philosopher Colin McGinn (himself a believer in the need for a scientific breakthrough) (New York Review of Books 10 vi '99, 'Can we ever understand consciousness?').

1. John Searle takes the 'beguilingly simple' view that consciousness is just what the brain does. This 'dualism faute de mieux' is doubtless an improvement on behaviouristic denial that consciousness need ever be mentioned in a full scientific account of human nature. Doubtless it is correct so far as it goes. However, it studiously avoids not only the question of how the brain 'does consciousness' -- which might possibly be left to science -- but the legitimate question for philosophy of how the brain can possibly do consciousness: i.e. of how the most completely known description of a brain state could ever lead an unprejudiced scientist to expect for more than empirical reasons that the brain's possessor would be conscious. Neodualism is all very well, but it fails to ask 'What is it about neurones that makes them any more capable of consciousness than the standard gas over?'
2. The latest book from 'eliminativists' Patricia and John Churchland stands by their own neobehaviourist thesis that the 'folk psychological' language of consciousness will eventually be 'reduced' to the wondrous truths of neurocogniburble. So impressed are the Churchlands with cognitive science that they even seem to reckon that some present-day machines are already a lot more genuinely thoughtful than some existing human beings. Yet thirty years of cognitive science has produced not the slightest scaling down of folk psychology even though cognitivism has been assisted by contructivism in the argument that there are no such unities as thought, feeling or personality to be found amidst the sub-processes into which it has been intended to reanalyze the human experience. More serious, philosophically, is McGinn's telling blow: If reductionist eliminativism is true, there would never have been anything that needed to be 'reduced'!
3. Colin McGinn's own position is thus one one of the 'strong unknowability' of these weighty matters. "My own position is that there is a theory which unifies minds with physical brains, but that we do not have any idea of what that theory is. In reality there is an underlying understanding -- albeit elusive to our cognitive faculties." -- It is hard not to smile at such a dressing-up of sheer ignorance; but William McDougall and Arthur Koestler, who were both driven to parapsychological research and Lamarckian speculation in search of solutions, would have applauded McGinn's apparent hope that something will turn up.

History of Psychology

(Alison WINTER, 1998, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain. University of Chicago Press.)

The almost incredible persistence of folly and illusion in the ranks of psychology is well illustrated by the century-long persistence of phrenological, behaviourist and social-environmental ideas. Less well appreciated is the persistence of mesmerism. Initially popular around the time of the French Revolution, mesmerism was still thriving in Britain in 1838 when Thomas Wakley [the founder of The Lancet] exposed Professor John Elliotson of University College London as having been hoaxed -- leading to Elliotson's resignation. Even then, mesmerism retained followers who believed in its anaesthetic powers, and it was only finally banished from medicine after Robert Liston* had provided a UK demonstration of the efficacy of ether as an anaesthetic in 1846. Psychoanalysis, too, had a big hold on some psychologists -- especially in its less biological forms of 'neo'-Freudianism that attracted tender-minded social psychologists unhappy with any kind of measurement. Today, it is only the arrival of genetic engineering that will lead Kamin et al. to give up the ghost -- and even then they will probably mumble on for years that 'genes have their effect only in a social context.'

*  Born in Linlithgow and trained in Edinburgh and London, Liston first used a general anaesthetic in a public operation at University College Hospital in December, 1846.

Asian Multicultural Relations

Following the withdrawal from publication in Japan of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking (Basic Books), the American-Chinese author has been interviewed. When the Japanese army took Nanking, in1937, Japanese soldiers raped about 80,000 women, often disembowelling them or cutting their breasts off in the process; prisoners were beheaded and bayoneted in training exercises for Japan's troops; and some Westerners who lived through the atrocities broke down and committed suicide. Other Westerners were subsequently gagged by Western authorities and told to keep their stories to themselves. After the war, the USA was eager to bolster Japan as its 'aircraft carrier' in the area and to restore stability using the Japanese Emperor. Anyhow there was feeling that the Japanese had suffered enough in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; so demands for penitence for Japan's treatment of Australian, British and Chinese soldiers and Chinese civilians were minimal.
      Now Salon Books (25 v '99, Laura Miller) brings more news of efforts to suppress what happened:

"Japanese extremists have used lawsuits, death threats and even physical intimidation to silence their opponents. Just this year, a fanatic with a baseball bat trashed the offices of a Japanese publisher who printed the diary of a Japanese veteran of the Nanking massacre. Also, when a Chinese feature film on the Rape of Nanking was shown in Japanese theaters a few months ago, right-wingers harassed theater owners, slashed up movie screens with knives and even smashed a loudspeaker truck through theater gates.
      ….the newly elected governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, is an outspoken revisionist of World War II history. He told Playboy magazine back in 1990 that the Rape of Nanking was a "lie" and "a story made up by the Chinese." He's enormously popular in Japan, and he won the election by a landslide."

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NEW DELHI (Reuters 26/7 '99) --  India unleashed two waves of air strikes to flush out guerrillas dug in on its side of the Kashmir cease-fire line resulting from Britain's introduction of democracy to India and the subsequent ethnic cleansing by Hindus and Muslims. The use of air power was India's first in peacetime in the beautiful province of Kashmir. New Delhi drew a tough line by warning Pakistan's army and air force not to interfere, but Pakistan responded within a day by shooting down two Indian MiG fighters that it claimed had crossed into Pakistan. A senior Indian defence official said the air strikes would continue until Afghan mercenaries were dislodged from high ridges in Kashmir's Drass-Kargil-Batalik sectors. "We have firm evidence now that those Afghan chaps are supplied by the Pakistan Army and are operating in close concert with the Pakistan army,'' said an Indian official. {The conflict comes two months' after Nato's surprise initiation of the bombing of Serbia, apparently proclaiming the doctrine that 'might is right.'}

{By its recent ignominious defeat on the cricket field, England has made more likely an India versus Pakistan World League final which could be the final trigger for nuclear holocaust. -- If there is one thing interests Indians and Pakistanis more than Kashmir, it is cricket.}

Kashmir

On all sides it is said that there is no answer to the problem of Kashmir -- two thirds in Indian and one third in Pakistani hands. This is not the view of the McDougall Newsletter.

1. Established borders should be respected. India and Pakistani have not been to war since 1971, so the existing cease-fire line should be recognized as the border.
2. Each side (India, Pakistan) should convert to the arrangement of constituency-choice in elections (McDNL 11 v '99). Thus, if enough Indian Hindus are prepared to switch their local votes to eastern Kashmir, they will be able to hang on to the province. If not, it will become autonomous and able to vote -- now without interference from non-residents -- either to join Pakistan or to set up a reunited and independent Kashmir.
3. As the Indian electoral process moved ahead, Pakistan would proceed similarly -- first allowing any Pakistanis to identify themselves as primarily interested in west Kashmir, and then, if autonomy came about, to allow west Pakistan to vote on the option of secession.

Such a procedure would provide an excellent first test of constituency-choice (or commune or canton choice -- whatever may be the more acceptable term). And few would doubt that both India and Pakistan, who have so disgraced the hopes entertained as Britain left the subcontinent in 1947, would be punished by Kashmiris for their intransigent and dangerous behaviour unless their switched votes indicated massive enthusiasm for over-riding the simple principle that would leave Kashmir to the Kashmiris.

Race and Sex Naughtiness, Asian-style

From Japan, Steve Tripp corrects a common Western misunderstanding:

"Contrary to popular Western belief, there is no Japanese word for "round eye." I have never heard that expression in 15 years in Japan (except from foreigners). Nor is it used in Thailand: I lived in Thailand for three years and speak Thai, and I am quite sure that there is no Thai word for "round eye." The correct Japanese expression is "tall nose" (hana-ga takai), which is used widely.
    Japanese generally refer to foreigners as "gaijin" (outsider) which means American by default. (American means white person by default.) Japanese also refer to "ajiajin" (Asians) which does not include Japanese by default. The Japanese word for black people is black people (kokujin). Since kokujin don't have tall noses they are not in the same category as white people (hakujin). Japanese children consider black people to be "unusual" in comparison to white people. Indians and south-east Asians are in a separate category."

But perhaps China has the answer? John Derbyshire writes:

"I have interrogated several Chinese people on this point, starting with my wife. The consensus is that "round-eyes" (Mandarin "yuan yan-jing") would be taken as a comical/abusive expression for "foreigner" if the context was obvious. However, it is not a commonplace term. There are simply too many other weird things about foreigners to notice -- their pale blotchy skin, big noses/ears/feet/genitals, green eyes, red hair, milky smell, exaggerated facial expressions, etc. etc.
      The only really colloquial "eye-shape" term I know in any Chinese dialect is Cantonese "ngaan-gok-gou", literally "eye-corners-high". This is used by Hong Kong men to refer to a certain regrettably widespread attitude among Hong Kong women -- summed up by one acquaintance as: "If you don't make a million [HK$] [i.e. aren't firmly in the middle class] I won't sleep with you." There are numerous English/Chinglish equivalents of "ngaan-gok-gou"-- "No money, no honey", "No cookie, no nookie" etc. etc."

World's Strongest Man Contests

For better or worse, a new area of Caucasian 'superiority' has been identified by McDNL's Sports Correspondent:

This staple of late-night viewing on ESPN2 features beefy brutes hoisting boulders, heaving beer kegs, hauling 18-wheelers, and other feats of strength that Thor himself would find right and fitting for manly men to compete at. Since neither foot-speed nor agility (whether physical or mental) is much needed, the stars are mostly Conan the Barbarian-types from the blonder peoples of Europe: Finns, Dutch, English, Boers, Austrians, etc. {Perhaps the term Saxon comes to mind? -- Ed.} Their king of kings is the man with the greatest name in sports (at least from my hereditarian viewpoint): Magnus Ver Magnusson of Iceland. Interestingly, Magnus is not particularly ripped nor particularly blonde. In fact, he looks like a brown-haired version of baseball's home run champ Mark McGwire. (This might be due to the fact that the Viking raiders brought home to Iceland a lot of Irish and Scottish slaves, who eventually married into the Nordic population). Like McGwire, and unlike a lot of chiseled West African athletes, Magnus' muscles look nicely marbleized with just enough fat to keep out the cold. Magnus is 6'2" and 287, Big Mac is 6'-5" and 270.

Sex Differences

Men cross their legs far less frequently, says a US survey. Among men, 21 percent cross their legs most of the time, compared with 45 percent of women, say researchers (for a health firm interested in varicose veins). Most men and women think leg crossing by women is flirtatious, and about 70 percent of men say they think a woman looks sexier with crossed legs, the researchers added.

{Doctor Johnson once praised the habit: "The first thing a young lady should learn," he said, "is to keep her legs together." It is well known to observers of human nature that, when standing, women more often place most of their weight on one leg, sometimes charmingly using the other foot to massage the calf of the leg on which they are standing. Leg crossing and leg lifting may have an underlying psychosexual unity that researchers have yet to discover.}

How men cope with nagging wives has come to light in the course of research on emotional perception. 40% of women can correctly identify from a tachistoscopic exposure whether a face is 'angry' -- no matter whether the presented face is male or female. Likewise, finds graduate student researcher Lisa Goos, of York University, Toronto, 40% of males can identify an 'angry' male face. But when it comes to males identifying 'angry' female faces, the success rate drops to 30%. How can this be? Well, evolution often supplies mechanisms enhancing perception for events that are of importance to organisms. "Information important for survival will be taken in and used in special ways." -- No, it wasn't McDNL that said it, but Ms Goos's academic supervisor, Ruben C. Gur, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology! (Ms Goos's study involved 56 male and 59 female subjects rating expressions contrived by actors.)

Psychopathy Today

Hysteria

Pondering what was the correct psychiatric diagnosis for Saint Diana of Harrods, the Medical Correspondent of the Times, Dr Thomas Stuttaford, has noted that Di's impulsiveness, boredom-proneness, fear of abandonment, fear of solitude and threats of suicide would all have qualified her as a case of histrionic psychopathy. However, docs are busy and careful men. Thus, says Stuttaford, "the emotionally detached physicians who had time to read the tabloids" usually settled for the less specific diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

Sadism

The Marquis de Sade, in real life, had a "hatred of bloodshed and violence." Such is the agreed view of Francine du Plessix Gray (1999, At Home with the Marquis de Sade, Chatto & Windus, £UK20) and her Oxford University reviewer, Richard Parish (Times Higher 28 v '99). De Sade's problems may have included infantile anality, exhibitionism, narcissism and delusional identities, but he long got on well with his wife -- and even better with his wife's sister. While his wife, Pelagie, visited him regularly in the Bastille, bringing food and helping build up his library of thousands of books, de Sade's only big failure at social relations was with his mother-in-law. To this day, it remains possible that the icy sobriety of de Sade's writings (about the Pope ripping the babies from the wombs of multiply abused pregnant women at the height of their gushing orgasms etc.) was due to the Marquis merely including such scenes so as to win an audience for his serious and detailed anti-Christian and pro-realism, pro-individualism, pro-choice and pro-contract messages.

Mediawatch, USA

John Derbyshire writes:

The main newspaper on New York's Long Island is "Newsday." It has a left-liberal editorial line. On Sunday May 23rd the news section "World" page (page A19) ran a lead item headline: "United in Anger Over Crime", subhead "S. Africa's suspects get zero tolerance", datelined Johannesburg, South Africa. The gist of it was that South Africans have had it with their stupendous crime rate. They want criminals rounded up and hanged in batches.
      Turning the sheet, page A21 "The Americas" main headline was "Violence Surges in Jamaica", subhead "Killings of cops bring new visibility to crime". The gist of it was that Jamaicans have had it with their stupendous crime rate and want.....
      J. P. Rushton's name did not appear in either article.

Notoriously, liberalism which once created the era of Queen Victoria, the Manchester school of economics, the Great Exhibition and Charles Darwin went into decline at some point. Eventually it became, in America and Britain, a version of welfare-socialism -- though more tolerant of abortion. Liberalism, beginning in revolt against authoritarian (episcopalian) Christianity, gradually succumbed to the idea that the freedoms it sought were -- for most people -- more easily provided by State welfare endeavour than by the untaxed efforts of citizens themselves.
      Yet when did the slide begin? By 1912, Britain's powerful Liberal party had become even more 'progressive' about providing free health care than was Labour -- starting in the Highlands of Scotland where support for Presbyterianism and Liberalism was strong and where poverty was frightful.. Now it turns out that 1870 may have been the crucial year when British Liberals, headed by Gladstone, switched from backing individuals to 'protecting' them. The issue that turned the Liberals to paternalism was, understandably enough, the continuing grinding poverty of overpopulated Ireland. In that year, Gladstone licensed courts in Ireland to re-write contracts between landowners and tenants when the contracts, however voluntarily made, seemed 'oppressive.'
      If this was the beginning of Liberalism's slippery slope, it is understandable. Necessarily, the biggest problem to any society of free and responsible people will always arise from those who aren't so conspicuously, er, responsible; and who may well be -- in virtue of personal deficiencies such as low IQ -- seriously unfree. This is why a serious liberalism will always need to be coupled with eugenic concern and inducement, as any neoliberal revival must insist.

Student Special: Alcoholism

In the 1960's, plenty of psychiatrists and psychologists could be found who would maintain that alcoholism was of social-environmental origin. For the latest psychogenetic evidence, see:

Marc A. SCHUCKIT, 1999, 'New findings in the genetics of alcoholism.' Journal of the American Medical Association 281, 1875-1876, 26 v.

SUMMARY -- This article reviews recent research on the importance of genetic influences on alcohol abuse and dependence. ….The contribution of genetic influences in alcoholism is supported by the 3- to 4-fold higher prevalence of this disorder in first-degree relatives of alcoholics, a rate that increases another 2-fold in identical twins of alcoholics.[1-4] Adoption-type studies reveal that the increased risk remains strong for children of alcoholics adopted and raised by non-alcoholics.[5,6] The genetic influences appear to be, in large part, separate from a generic predisposition toward dependence on other drugs.[7-9] These influences might involve multiple genes or incomplete expression of several major genes, along with environmental influences.[10]

References

1. Prescott CA, Kendler KS. Genetic and environmental contributions to alcohol abuse and dependence in a population-based sample of male twins. Am J Psychiatry. 1999;156:34-40.
2. Pickens RW, Svikis DS, McGue M, Lykken DT, Heston LL, Clayton PJ. Heterogeneity in the inheritance of alcoholism. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1991;48:19-28.
3. Heath AC, Bucholz KK, Madden PAF, et al. Genetic and environmental contributions to alcohol dependence risk in a national twin sample. Psychol Med. 1997;27:1381-1396.
4. Kendler KS, Prescott CA, Neale MC, Pedersen NL. Temperance board registration for alcohol abuse in a national sample of Swedish male twins born 1902-1949. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1997;54:178-184.
5. Goodwin DW, Schulsinger R, Hermansen L, Guze SB, Winokur G. Alcohol problems in adoptees raised apart from alcoholic biological parents. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1973;28:238-255.
6. Schuckit MA, Goodwin DW, Winokur G. A study of alcoholism in half-siblings. Am J Psychiatry. 1972;128:1132-1136.
7. Schuckit MA, Smith TL. An 8-year follow-up of 450 sons of alcoholic and control subjects. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1996;53:202-210.
8. Bierut LJ, Dinwiddie SH, Begleiter H, et al. Familial transmission of substance dependence. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1998;55:982-988.
9. Tsuang MT, Lyons MJ, Meyer JM, et al. Co-occurrence of abuse of different drugs in men. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1998;55:967-972.
10. Schuckit MA. Biological, psychological, and environmental predictors of the alcoholism risk: a longitudinal study. J Stud Alcohol. 1998;59:485-494.

Corresponding Author and Reprints: Marc A. Schuckit, MD, University of California School of Medicine, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA 92161 (e-mail: mschuckit@ucsd.edu).

Memory Lane

As maintained in the essay 'Liberating the Future',* Adolf Hitler seems to have developed his anti-Semitism only well after his years as a university student. In Vienna, Hitler greatly enjoyed hearing Mahler conduct Wagner; he had several Jewish friends; he was readily lent money by Jewish helpers -- without acrimony resulting; and one Jew was the leading purchaser of the artwork by which the (now parentless) Hitler stayed afloat. Hitler is even known to have dismissed expressly claims that Jews sometimes undertook 'ritual murders.'** Indeed, the Fuehrer-to-be's only problem with twentieth-century liberal-democratic ideas seems to have been that he was appalled when seeing, as a visitor to the Austro-Hungarian parliament, pandemonium in the chamber which included the use of fisticuffs.

* Draft copies of this Essay for the Millennium by Chris Brand are available to regular McDNL readers.

**  Just what were these accusations, one wonders? Surely not that Jews practised eugenic infanticide on their young? Answers on the usual postcard please to McDNL HQ.

President Willy

Why did President Clinton agree to pay Paula Jones $840,000? According to Mark Steyn in the Times (26 v '99) the answer is probably very short, and it concerns the presidential organ -- seen at close quarters by Ms Jones. Apparently it is traditional overcompensation for what Adler used to call 'organ inferiority' that explains why Bill Clinton has bombed more countries in six months than Ronald Reagan bombed in six years.

{Perhaps it is the same with Mr Blair who, as John Pilger wrote for the Guardian (18 v '99), "has dropped more bombs in the last 18 months [including the daily and equally fruitless efforts in Iraq] than the Tories dropped in 18 years."}

Class Unrealism

Letter in Daily Telegraph 27 v '99:

"Britain really is a classless society now. In my local supermarket, a board once titled STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS has been re-named COLLEAGUE ANNOUNCEMENTS."

Evo-devo-psychology

1. At first, the infant is essentially selfish, inclined to manipulate all others around it to do its bidding.
2. Er, that's it.

JUNE 8

THIS WEEK:

TEACHERS UNITE AGAINST IQ-neglecting PAY-BY-RESULTS PLAN

'ABUSED WOMEN' BRING POLICEMEN TO THEIR KNEES

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS CASTRATES SOCCER FANS

Science reviews 'affirmative action'

ACLU SLAMS AFFIRMATIVE PROFILING

SOCIAL FACTORS DON'T EXPLAIN KIDS' DIFFERENCES IN AGGRESSION

NEOSLAVERY OF US BLACK MEN NOTICED

REPUBLICANS THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE BOYS

Genius Explained -- by M. J. A. WHO

BOMBING FOR A MULTICULTURAL KOSOVO: Starting with 'humanitarian intervention' and 'surgical strikes' on 'military infrastructure', Nato's campaign continued with deliberate 'economic devastation' to 'ruin the lives of Milosevic's people,' admit neosocialists. Serbian flight from Kosovo halted by lack of petrol; Nato advance halted by shortage of UN blue helmets. Nato officers refuse Serb offer to exchange shirts. Russia prepares to supply common sense, i.e. partition. UN will tell Nato to stop bombing and collect supply of helmets. NEOSOCIALISTS DENOUNCE CRITICS AS TRAITORS. Neosocialist World Order? Or will Kosovo be Nato's Afghanistan?

Educalunacy

Taking time off from bombing Serbia, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair bombed the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers. Despite his Government's 1997 election commitment to "Education, education, education", there would be no more money for the teachers, said Blair, unless they agreed to some kind of payment-by-results scheme. There must be "something for something", Blair said, referring to a figure of £UK1 billion that he would withdraw from present Government offers unless the teachers surrendered.
      Mr Blair won an ovation for his talk, which included a refusal to bring back grammar schools (to which he sends his own children); but his insistence on pay-by-results was given the thumbs-down by the head teachers the next day. All other UK teachers' unions also reject payment-by-results.

{Neither side is overtly proposing the obvious compromise, that teachers be rewarded when they improve on results that would be predicted from children's IQs alone. Perhaps, so long as the dread term IQ itself is not mentioned, some such result will finally emerge from the head teachers' pipe-smoke-filled rooms. -- Ed.}

Feminazism

In Britain, it is fashionable for BBC chatterers to discuss 'the crisis of masculinity' as male labour is no longer needed by the welfare state in the information age and sperm counts drop. (Solutions include new roles for men as caring househusbands who have got in touch with their feelings -- BBCR4UK 5 vi '99, 22:10.) Yet men face even more straightforward problems thanks to the legal system and the media caving in to feminazism. Today, a man can easily find himself imprisoned for 'rape' of a girl whose withholding of consent does not need to be plainly demonstrated; and, if he is murdered by a jealous wife, he will be lucky if the murderess is not successfully defended by 'women's groups.'

A blonde who claimed sexual abuse by her policeman husband has been jailed for life. Mrs Kim Galbraith, 30, a mother of one, shot her husband Ian, 37, in the head while he was sleeping and sobbed in court as she claimed a long history of abuse involving her husband brandishing whips, guns and knives while dressed only in black fishnet stockings. Wymmin's groups sprang to Kim's side and psychologist Dr Mairead Teagg of Glasgow Easterhouse Woman's Aid testified that she believed Kim's story of a "brutal and sadistic partner" from whom escape via divorce, emigration or having the man imprisoned (for buggery, guns possession etc.) would have been a psychological impossibility. Jurors, however, were unimpressed because:

• Prior to the killing of Constable Galbraith (whose idyllic rural beat was in Lochgilphead, Argyllshire) the bubbly blonde Kim had cut the brake cable of her husband's car.
• When first arrested, Mrs Galbraith had said the family home had been invaded by burglars who multiply raped her, shot her husband and set the house alight to destroy evidence. However, within 24 hours Mrs Galbraith abandoned this story and was overheard by a policewoman saying to herself 'What have I done?'
• Constable Galbraith's first wife and colleagues all stood by him, attesting he was a 'gentle giant' with a hobby collecting military memorabilia.
• Mrs Galbraith claimed her husband brought prostitutes from Glasgow to the family house for group sex orgies. But police advertising throughout Glasgow did not discover one such prostitute.

Psychologist Teagg was scornful of the verdict. 'What other motive could Kim have had?' she complained. {The idea does not seem to have occurred to Dr Teagg that, after the couple's child had come along, Mr Galbraith might have devoted herself to maternos in the usual fashion and that Constable Galbraith might have had an occasional affair -- very wicked, no doubt, in feminazie eyes, but not meriting being killed in his bed in cold blood.}

At least the dead Constable Galbraith received justice post mortem. Less fortunate is an imprisoned-for-life constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary found guilty of multiple rapes of a late-teenager. The story? The 47-year-old constable first raped the girl in her own home when she was still only fifteen years old. Then the couple quite got into the habit and rapes kept on occurring in the girl's home from 1988 to 1993. Typically, the constable wore woman's stockings, a girdle and high heels. Altogether seven 'rapes' were charged -- and the court gave him a life sentence on each count. The girl had supposedly felt unable to tell her parents because she thought she would not be believed. {British media showed no curiosity about this case. Perhaps the girl was mentally defective ooops had learning difficulties? Only some such condition could possibly justify the imprisonment. Today, even the Times does not trouble to supply such detail -- so axiomatic is it in its readers' minds that any male charged with rape is automatically GUILTY.}

Political Correctness

PC took a new step forward in Scotland this week when a top QC felt obliged to resign from the Board of Directors of Rangers Football Club (Glasgow) after he had been videoed joining in the singing of an anti-Catholic song. Donald Findlay QC had joined with fellow supporters of Rangers -- a traditionally Protestant team -- in singing after an exciting victorious day of football the rousing song 'The Sash' which invites singers to rejoice in 'wading deep in Fenian blood' [i.e. in the blood of Irish rebels against the 1798 Act of Union]. As soon as the Scottish tabloids were given the video, Findlay resigned.

{For the past generation, both Rangers and Celtic, Glasgow's main soccer teams, have felt obliged to deny the degree to which they were tribal in nature. Both clubs have maintained they selected players impartially -- and indeed fielded players of the opposite religion to prove the point. Now it turns out that it is not just in offers of employment that such clubs feel obliged to appear non-discriminatory and without prejudiced affect. Even without legal pressure on them, they wish to avoid a scene.
       It is fascinating to see such religiosity at work, infecting voluntary societies that have no legal obligation to toe the PC line. Of course, tribalistic songs and sentiments don't appeal to many pinkoes and women who want all the fun of feeling associated with a soccer team without any of the naughty bits. Yet who seriously expects that, say, the members of the Welsh Rugby Union will not have some anti-English drinking songs in their repertoire? Who expects that a university will not contain some academics who back race-realism or oppose paedohysteria? -- Presently very few; but PC's day will surely come while associations like Rangers place more stress on winning at any cost than on winning in a way that generates genuine pride for any real community. That day already came for Edinburgh LUniversity which decided it could ditch truth because its primary concern was with money-making entertainment.
      A state that allows people no serious loyalties to principles other than those of PC can doubtless be pleased to rid itself of competing loyalties. Not dissimilarly, Scottish kings used to simply forbid men to play golf because they would be distracted from the proper pursuit of archery. However, a state that encourages religion to emasculate its citizenry should not be surprised when -- as with Rome -- few people are left who have much interest in defending it. A state that is itself to be other than a tyranny or tribe must manage to rejoice in and use to the full the competing interests within it -- just as the world has learned that competitive capitalism is the least bad way of arranging economic affairs. That is why citizens should be allowed and encouraged to join, within a state, vigorous communities of their choice -- see McDNL 11 v '99, NEOLIBERALIZING ETHNIC TENSIONS BY CONSTITUENCY CHOICE.}

Paedohysteria

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LAS VEGAS -- The son of a nation-wide radio talk show host who cited a "family crisis" in abruptly quitting his show last year has sued a school district and a former substitute teacher convicted of sexually assaulting him.
      Arthur Bell IV, the son of Art Bell whose radio show attracts 15 million listeners with talk of space aliens and C.I.A. conspiracies, seeks unspecified damages in a Federal lawsuit. He accuses the Nye County School District, its superintendent and a high school principal of negligently hiring the teacher, Brian Lepley.
      The suit also names Lepley, who was sentenced last year to life in prison for having sexual contact with Arthur Bell, a 16-year-old student at the time, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Saturday.
      The suit was filed in November, a month after Art Bell suddenly announced that he was quitting his radio show. After leaving the show on Oct. 13, Bell returned on Oct. 28 without explanation.

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A McDNL supporter writes: "Life in prison for sexual contact with a 16-year-old (consenting?) boy! We've all gone crazy."

One-Party State

Appearing at the Oxford Union to debate with students Nato's bombing of Serbia, the Blair Government's Minister for Disabled Overseas Penitents, Clare Short, publicly called her opponents "fascist traitors." Already renowned for weeping along with Mr & Mrs Blair in the photo-opportunities ooops snows of Macedonia, humanitarian campaigner Ms Short cannot contain her rage at those who have opposed Nato's ending of the post-1945 era of respect for national sovereignty and international law. To her, as to utopians through the ages, the humanitarian needs of others (as diagnosed by benevolent socialist tyrants) can license any amount of killing and destruction.
      In one-party New Labour Britain, where opponents have failed to provide either a national or a liberal alternative to neosocialism, such strong language has become common. The Government is so arrogant that it has even nominated a big Labour Party donor to become the top biscuit at the BBC. Pursuit of this story led the media to the discovery that the last Director-General of the BBC, Sir John Birt, had been a fully paid-up Labour Party member when he had taken the job -- thus ending for goo all pretence that the BBC is any longer a non-committed reporter of both sides of national debates. (Birt's appointment was followed by years of arguments with the Conservatives. Today, just like Messrs Blair and Blunkett, the Beeb never even mentions IQ, the g factor or intelligence when discussing 'problems of school failure, racism and exclusion affecting Black children.'*) Even Britain's holier-than-thou Prime Minister (renowned for his attendance at Mass -- quite unprecedented in British PM's) can no longer resist the demonization of his opponents. Not only is Slobbering Milosevic (the Beast of Belgrade and hunted war criminal who should hand himself in to police immediately) a modern Hitler who properly exercises Rev. Blair's Churchillian talents; even poor Tory leader Mr Hague, who has dared to poke a little fun at the sinking Eurodollar and Blair's preparation for abandoning the pound sterling, is now publicly accused by Blair of speaking "the language of betrayal."

* Not that Britain is alone in its ignoracism. Newsweek 7 vi '99 (US edition) carries an article 'Trying to Close the Achievement Gap' about a well-heeled Ohio suburb where the offspring of upper-middle-class Blacks doggedly achieve less academically than their White peers. Quote: "Though blacks make up half the high-school population, they regularly account for less than 10 per cent of those at the top of the class and nearly 90 per cent of the bottom. 'We have been aware of and working on this for years,' says school spokesperson Peggy Caldwell....." Possible hereditarian explanations of the long-standing group difference are mentioned nowhere in the article.

Affirmative Racism

The 'science news' magazine, Science, has just got around to reviewing The Shape of The River. The 511-page book by former Harvard and Princeton presidents Derek Bok and William Bowen set out to prove from a postal questionnaire that 'affirmative action' had gone down well with American graduates who had lived through it; but the book's publication, though hyped in New York Review of Books (R. Dworkin) and Times Higher, was effectively rubbished in Center Right <http://www.center-right.org/> and McDougall NewsLetters (Autumn '98 passim, esp. PINKO PHILOSOPHER DEFENDS 'POSITIVE' PREJUDICE -- Dreadnought Dworkin emerges for River Battle but has a leak --) as failing to disguise the high drop-out rates of Black students sent artificially to elite colleges. When released, The River was hoped to dissuade the voters of Washington State from 'Proposition 200' which -- finally approved in the referendum -- forbade affirmative racism by universities. Now, nine months after authoritative opinion was wanted, Robert E. Thach, Dean of the Graduate School at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, has graciously reviewed the book for Science (which normally reviews books within six weeks of their publication).

Why the delay? Apparently Thach found it hard to think up even unimpressive flatteries about the book.

• Thach thinks The River found no advantages to Black students being 'down-tracked' into non-elite colleges. But that is hardly the point. Who expects a Harvard student to do any better at Lower Little Bighorn University when LLBU exams mimic Harvard's? By affirmative racism, Black students have occupied places in US elite colleges that gave them no conspicuous gain while denying opportunities to White students of higher IQ. Anyhow, while all US colleges remain half-hearted about supplying tiered education -- designed to make the best of students at every level of IQ -- the tracking concept has not been properly tested.
• Thach finds it "surprising" that Blacks underperform everywhere, as compared to their own educational records. He thinks this is a criticism of US colleges. However, all systems that manufacture artificially high scores for pupils will be bound to produce this result further down the line. Modern Black underperformance is due to nothing more than over-accreditation of Black pupils by spineless White 'liberals'.
• Thach dismisses the arguments of the Thernstroms -- whose revelations of the unhelpfulness of affirmative racism to Blacks or anyone else pre-dated and were not in fact superseded by The River -- as "angry." That's it. No more argument is deemed necessary. "At the very top schools, the black dropout rate is triple the white rate (15% vs. 5%)", said the Thernstroms, using The River's data. "The racial disparity is worse in these selective institutions than in the college population as a whole." Yet Thach does not even mention such comparisons, so concerned is he to dismiss the Thernstroms and assert that The River will be relied upon as a navigational beacon for years to come." -- What a hoot that Science could not be bothered to get Thach's assessment published for nine months!

"Skin color has become a substitute for evidence in a way that really resembles Jim Crow justice on the nation's highways," says Ira Glasser, head of the American Civil Liberties Union. The group -- which never did anything for The g Factor (Wiley DePublisher) -- blasts