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November, 2005

ROUTE TO NATIONAL LIBERALISM OPENS UP As Rev. Blair became increasingly involved in complementing his draconian provision of Political Correctness with demands for ‘Respect’ (for others, apparently) (involving petty and incoherent legal restrictions on gambling, smoking and drinking in trains and ‘name and shame’ routines to advertise state schools having high weenager pregnancy rates), it became increasingly clear that the way forward for the Conservatives was to stress their commitment to freedom, and in particular to choice, and especially to announce a commitment to help young people avoid early criminal records (or later blackmail threats) by decriminalizing drugs, lowering the age of sexual consent and insisting that all state schools allow all pupils a choice of school class for at least 50% of the day. Coupled with a commitment to support two-parent families, births to undergraduettes, a statute of limitations forbidding prosecution more than two years after an offence and kicking out unintegrated asylum seekers of low IQ, national liberalism would have [re-]arrived – with a realistic formula for a free Britain. {But, as it was, the preference of wonderboy Conservative leadership contender David Cameron remained that he only wanted to discuss policy behind closed doors with his ‘Notting Hill’ fan club.}

FRENCH ANTI-RACIST PHILOSOPHY EXPOSED In a hilarious send-up of the generation-long ambitions alike of France’s revolutionaries, republicans and reactionaries to ignore genetic and IQ problems and pretend to ‘integrate’ six million Muslims into French society, North-African youths from un-policed ghettos in some ten Paris suburbs rioted in neighbouring White areas nightly for a week, e.g. resulting in hundreds of burned-out cars (250 in one night alone), buses and trains being stopped and stoned, the setting ablaze of a primary school, a car dealership and a shopping centre, the fire-bombing of a police station, cancellation of holidays for top ministers of France’s centrist government, and talk of the need for a curfew in the French capital. {So much for France’s attempt to placate Muslims by not helping to depose Iraq’s dictator Madman Insane!} {By an eighth night, the disturbances had spread to some twenty Paris-region towns and 143 arrests had been made. To that date, 28,000 cars had been torched in urban France in 2005, said Le Monde. Among 20- to 24-year-olds living in French suburbs whose residents are predominantly Muslim, the jobless rate during the 1999 census was 37.2 percent for men, compared with the national average of 22.5 percent – Bloomberg, 3 xi. The descendants of North African parents in France came to call themselves Beurs (Beur means Arab) around 1980, stressing their ‘cultural bi-identity,’ and there were self-announced Beur novelists; but today Beur has become a term of abuse.} {The troubles had started when, most unusually, a White woman living on the fringe of an Afro-Arab ghetto took the trouble to report the vandalization of a car. As police arrived, two Beur boys sought refuge in an electricity substation where they promptly died from electrocution, sparking anger among the wretched Muslims of the earth.} {As disturbances spread to Dijon [5 cars burned], Marseilles [11 cars burned], Trappes [to the west of Paris – 27 buses destroyed] and Normandy, Lille and Toulouse the ludicrous and divided but unfailingly peecee-mouthing French ‘government’ pronounced the rioting to be ‘organized’, as if to excuse its own lack of organization of immigration policy re mad Muslims of mean IQ 90. On the eighth night of rioting, 519 cars were torched. France's anti-immigrant National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, 77, said "France is under attack from hordes of foreigners"; but by and large the right kept quiet, waiting for France to see for itself the failure of its political elite’s ‘assimilatory’ policies of the past generation. Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy, who had been thought to favour affirmative racism ooops action, had called the Beurs “scum” and said they should be “water-hosed,” thus allowing leftists and pinkoes and President Chirac to blame him personally for most of the rioting…. By contrast, his opponent for the 2007 Presidential Election, the lofty and aristocratic Dominique de Villepin, favoured total ‘colour-blindness.’ – Both gents would soon find that their lack of attention to genetic differences and the sheer intractable unintegratability of many Bleck youf would cost them and their country dear. On the evening of 4^th November, 900 cars were burned across France and 250 arrests were made. Le Figaro ran a strong editorial that blamed decades of “uncontrolled immigration” for the unrest. To use the army was problematic since France had let it become 23% Muslim. Just why France continued paying out welfare benefits in Beur areas remained unclear. Police trade union officials spoke freely of “civil war” spreading to all Muslim ghettos. In a tenth night of rioting, as batty French politicians and the media called for more sensitivity, welfarism and giving mad Muslims the vote, 1,300 cars were burned out and 350 arrests were made. Just when the French authorities would start shooting at Muslim loons was not explained – no more than the American and British troops in Iraq explained their own apparent inactivity. “The government has set up plenty of agencies to help these youngsters find a job, but they don't want to work,'' said Claudine Carrer, a 66-year-old retired secretary from Aulnay-sous-Bois, where rioters had burnt a Renault showroom and a car rental business. ``They want to live off unemployment benefits. The government should send in the army, the foreign legion, and dig up all the drugs and the weapons these people hide.'' However, as curfews were discussed and 1,500 gendarme reservists were called up, it seemed more likely that French politicos would do a deal with French mullahs to restore the classic mediaeval ‘millet’ system whereby Muslims would control their own areas in return for restraining their forces from pestering surrounding areas, at least for the time being. Eventually, on November 8^th, the ludicrous ‘interior minister’ said he was ‘allowing’ local mayors to declare curfews and states of emergency in their areas – but he would not admit that France (afflicted by then nightly by rioting in some 300 locations) had a problem as a whole, traceable to its years of Catholicism, revolutionism, anti-Semitism, anti-Germanism, anti-Americanism, communism, existentialism, postmodernism and lack of race realism. The press was not fooled, however, and said France had declared a “state of emergency” (allowing curfews, house searches, house arrests, fuel restrictions and bans on public meetings) – a fitting end to years of multiculchalunacy. The state of emergency was promptly condemned by French socialists. By mid-November, the sport of voiture flambée had stabilized around a rate of 400 torched cars per night.}

IQ IS THE FROGGIES’ PROBLEM After two weeks of French Arab-Africans rioting, and without a mention of IQ or intelligence in the media, Steve Sailer easily supplied the answer: http://vdare.com/sailer/051109_france.htm. The truth is that most societies (apart from Britain at the time it was at loggerheads with America) fancy ‘slave’ labour; and low-IQ slaves can be controlled by heavy religion – as was the lot of Blacks in the U.S.A; but once the religious brakes come off, the ‘Whites’ flee (as from Rome c. 300) and the riff-raff take over. All this is being mimicked today as Dutch and Danes apply furiously to emigrate to Australia and New Zealand.

PAEDOHYSTERIA DENOUNCED Support for affairs between pupils and teachers came from Sheffield University education lecturer Pat Sikes, 49, who had fallen for her own husband-to-be, a 22-year old teacher, on her very first day in high school at age 14 (Independent, 11 xi). Sikes’ research estimated that there were 1,500 such harmless or positively beneficial pupil-teacher affairs in English schools beginning every year. {Scores of other experts sympathetic to adult-child liaisons are listed at www.crispian.demon.co.uk/PaedoBeeb98.htm, where it is suggested that the age of consent should be a Mental Age of 15. In 1997, Edinburgh University sacked me for outraging the Scottish media by saying that, on average, paedophilia did little harm.} {Meanwhile, pop star Gary Glitter, 61, was carrying on paedophiling with two delightfully trim pony-tailed under-age girls in a Vietnamese seaside resort who called themselves his wives, and also enjoying a third 19-year-old Asian beauty – though as ever with the censorious News of the Screws on his case (13 xi), resulting in him facing a firing squad for three incidents of under-age consensual sex (at £5-50 a throw) and the alleged rape of a 12-year old. Vietnamese police asked for a leisurely four months to study Gary Glitter’s sexual relations with Vietnamese women, which he freely admitted had been extensive. And the equally hounded supposed paedophile Arthur C. Clarke – normally seen in the tabloids being served by a bevy of nubile boys at his beach-house home -- was given Ceylon’s top national honour, the Sri Lanka-bhimanya, for his services to science and technology.}

NATURE BEATS NURTURE, FUNDAY TIMES REPORTS Adoptees into rich families don’t do as well scholastically as the biological kids of those families, Britain’s Funday Times (renowned for its hostility to star hereditarian Sir Cyril Burt) reported. A more comprehensible summary of the new work by economists appeared in The Australian (7 xi) – though still without making clear whether the early (pre-adoption) environments of today’s adoptees in the West could have been quite as disastrous as their genes.

FRENCH MULTICULCHALUNACY EXPOSED After sixteen nights of rioting and thousands of car-torchings on French streets, Paris was in a state of ‘lockdown’, the disturbances had spread to the centre of France’s third city, Lyons, requiring tear gas to be fired, and there had been petrol bomb attacks on a mosque (Independent, 13 xi) and also on two churches (these latter attacks being unreported by France’s self-censored press). The French policy of ‘assimilation’ without deporting those who failed to integrate by marriage or employment was painfully exposed; but at the same time the ‘authoritarian-socialist’ link-up of Muslims and Leftists predicted by me for the last year (e.g. in American Renaissance and in my review of Occidentalism at Amazon Books) looked all too likely to come about. Having first failed to oppose Hitlerism pre-1939 and then to oppose Stalinism post-1945, the Left seemed now to be wanting a top role in Islamifying Europe, starting with France. {By the night of 12/13 xi, the Muslim madness spread to Belgium (29 cars torched) and Holland (where Muslim psychotics had previously concentrated on murdering critics of Muslim immigration, starting with eminent politician Pim Fortuyn in 2003) (4 cars torched).} {France’s National Front’s blonde darling, M. Le Pen’s daughter, 37, averred there were 1,000 areas in La République where cops dared not go – and the Gouvernement itself admitted that the figure of no-go areas might be as high as 150. Apparently, France was letting itself become a larger-scale Northern Ireland (where people have found their own territorial solutions to ‘the troubles’ since the politicians have proved useless). How pitiful that the West’s central regimes of America, Britain and France have not conferred with each other about how to confront half-Black Muslim madness before it is too late! Only Australia was putting up a firm response -- doubtless assisted by East Asian countries who certainly don’t want Muslim madness to spread to them – and have numerous laws in place to prevent unintegrated riff-raff immigration. Perhaps the East is the new West as France finally destroys itself after a miserable 220-year period of failure as a nation, its numerous useless effort to fight Germany having culminated in its obscure reality-denying verbosities of postmodernism?} {After the clashes in Lyons, the first such attacks on police in a French city centre since 1968, it was announced that France’s notoriously proactive paramilitary force, the CRS, would be garrisoned in 17 hotspots – and would not be spending their time playing soccer with local youf.}

RACE REALISM DAWNS AT THE BBC Race-specific medicines, first discussed in TgF NewsLetters nine years ago, got their first mention on the Beeb’s flagship channel, Radio 4. {If things go according to form in the battle for truth against PeeCee, these ‘controversial’ new drugs – admitted by the Beeb to provoke “hysteria” in some quarters [Prof. Steve Jones, Prof Steve Rose?] – will get mentioned on Radio 4’s classic soap opera ‘The Archers’ by 2015 and get on the telly by 2020….}

FRENCH LEFTIST JEW BERATES MUSLIMS – ALBEIT MILDLY After France ‘returned to normal’ (according to the BBC – only 100 voitures flambées per night by 20 xi), it turned out that there was one ‘philosophe’ with 1968 leftist credentials who had changed his mind a bit about the Black/Arab underclass – though even he did not dare to use the term IQ (AmRen, 23 xi). {My French Correspondent tells me that fully 50% of the rioters were Black, the rest being better described as Beurs [Frenchified Arabs].} {After a few days of being threatened with lawsuits from ‘anti-racist’ groups, philosophe Finkielkraut issued a grovelling apology – such was the peecee tyranny that ‘liberal’-leftists had foisted on France, a country forever doomed to pay for its bloody and unrealistic Revolution, its killing of 100,000 Haitians together with its re-imposition of slavery in 1802, its repeated efforts to export its self-contradictory egalitarianism to the rest of Europe, and its end as a nation of cheese-eating postmodernist surrender monkeys.} {Over the subsequent two weeks, Finkielkraut won the support of French Prime Minister Nicholas Sarkozy – AmRen, 6 xii – but not of most of the French press. Next he found himself being sued by Caribbean Blacks – of whom he had said that they sponged off French welfare benefits (American Renaissance, 11 i 06).}

FEMINAZIES REBUKED In an amazing victory for common sense and liberty, Swansea Crown Court ruled that a female drama student binge drinker who could not actually remember whether she had given consent to sex was not entitled to proceed with her rape allegation against handsome fellow student Ryairi Dougal (Sun, 24 xi). Predictable hysteria broke out among media folk at the BBC etc.

RACE REALISM ABOUT PYGMIES CATCHES ON At a time in British politics when no-one would dare call anyone a Nigger, Paki or Frog (even if the target were indeed a Negro, a Pakistani or a Frenchman), it suddenly became publicly fashionable to call British politicians “political pygmies.” UK ex-Ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, dished out the treatment in his memoirs to Labour Deputy Leader John Prescott and to UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw; and in Scotland the same abuse proved popular with Members of the Scottish Parliament for reference to Scotland’s egotistic First Minister Jack McConnell. One wonders, has someone been reading what I said in November’s American Renaissance of the genetic work of Bruce Lahn and colleagues in Chicago linking certain human genetic variations to larger brain size?….
”[Lahn et al.] estimated that one genetic variation (‘microcephalin haplogroup D’ – O.K., let’s call it V1) had spread since its appearance in humans of 40,000BC to some 70% of humans; and it was more common in Europe, Asia, South America and Latin America than in Black Africa. It was especially infrequent (3%) in Congo pygmies, whom Black Africans commonly regard as markedly intellectually inferior to themselves.”

IMMIGRATION REALISM IN UNI RESEARCH Fresh evidence emerged that, contrary to conventional political pretences, immigrants are costly -- each immigrant family costing each Florida household $1,800 per year (http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2005/11/the_myth_of_nocost_immigrants.php). {The evidence came from a pro-immigration Democrat economist at U. Florida (who was amazed at his results and rechecked them thoroughly….) and was published in the normally pro-immigration Investors' Business Daily; and presumably Florida's immigrants would have include many Hispanics (mean IQ c. 90) as well as Blacks.} {Subsequently, the state of Minnesota estimated that illegal immigration was costing it $188 million annually.}

December, 2005

IQ TESTS MAKE COME-BACK IQ tests were to be used in future in British state secondary schools to identify children who might be capable of Oxbridge entry with special coaching (Daily Telegraph, 3 xii). The announcement came after an expert on school evaluation, Professor David Jesson (Dept. Economics, York University) had found that children of high educational attainment at age 11 (top 5%) had a 1 in 3 chance of making it to Oxbridge if educated independently but only a 1 in 8 chance if educated at a state school (Times, 25 xi). The names of Britain’s top 150,000 brightest kids at age 11 would be made known to Britain’s top twenty universities (the ‘Russell Group’) so the kids could be monitored and exhorted to apply for elite places (Times, 5 xii) – this news followed the revelation that 40% of Britain’s teachers (overwhelmingly socialist-egalitarian by inclination) had never identified a single child in their classes as ‘gifted.’

PAEDOHYSTERIA SCOTCHED As sumptuous blonde American schoolteacher Debra Lafave, 25, was found by a court to have had full sex “many times” with a 14-year-old pupil, the culmination of a string of US ‘Kissy Missy’ cases where no harm could be reported by assiduous paedohysterical leftist hacks, a survey revealed that fully 7% of schoolchildren claimed to have had some level of sexual involvement with an adult at their school, usually a teacher (female in 22% of cases). In the star case of all time (see McDougall NewsLetters), the bouncy blonde and lissome divorcée, Mary Kay Le Tourneau, 42, was still together with (and married to) the strapping Pacific Islander, 21, whom she had first seduced at a US West Coast school when he was 12 – the couple had two daughters (both born in prison thanks to the American authorities tireless pursuit of loveless and unrealistic pseudo-welfarism).

SEX DIFFERENCES ARE BRAIN-BASED Yawn -- neuroscientists proved what everyone had known for a generation (AmRen, 2 xii).

BRAINS vs BALLS IN BATS Yawn – biologists re-invent Phil Rushton’s wheel (Sun, 7 xii).

SEX DIFFERENCE THEORIST DEFENDED
From: Chris Brand
          71, South Clerk Street
Edinburgh EH8 9PP
7 xii 2005

To whom it may concern (but especially at Aarhus University, Denmark):

Dr Helmuth Nyborg is a well-known and distinguished scholar who has made an impressive contribution to the study of individual and group differences over the past two decades. Both in research and as an organizer (especially, as an editor), he has made an enormous contribution to the London School of psychology (the intellectual tradition, respecting genetic factors, that descends from Darwin's cousin, Sir Francis Galton). Dr Nyborg has been at once imaginative and convivial -- an unusual and welcome combination in academic life. Thus I have been shocked to hear that Dr Nyborg's work on sex differences has come under attack at Aarhus. As it happens, I myself do not agree that men have any general advantage in intelligence -- though of course, because of their wider standard deviation in intelligence, men are massively over-represented in the ranks of both geniuses and the mentally defective. But Dr Nyborg's views are supported by Emeritus Professor Richard Lynn and are perfectly worthy of publication and discussion -- indeed, the top journal Nature recently deemed them worthy of debate (albeit critical). As we all know, 'political correctness' is the religion of our day and age, organized from 'postmodern' but still quaintly egalitarian France and forbidding discussion of controversial topics in psychology. Well, the French ban on talk of IQ and racial differences has not prevented major social disturbances -- the BBC currently refers to France as having 'got back to normal' when 50-100 cars are burned nightly. I would urge Denmark to hold out against attempts to suppress free speech by such distinguished academics as Dr Nyborg. Free discussion is the hallmark of the Anglo-Saxon peoples and arguably a key cause of our great success as civilized and properous nations. If Denmark cannot even defend such a senior and internationally respected scientist as Dr Nyborg, I will conclude the country is frankly finished and just awaits the terminating arrival of Black, Muslim and kindred crazy conquistadors. (NB If you feel bullied by feminists or their wimp male hangers-on, do you ever ask them how they feel about Blacks' and Muslims' notoriously hostile attitudes to women? Surely free discussion is best all round? -- So end your interminable bullying of Helmuth Nyborg!} Yours sincerely, -- Chris Brand (author of 'The g Factor' -- available free at http://www.douance.org/qi/brandtgf.htm).

TOP LADY JUDGE CONFESSES After a lifetime of sucking up to socialism, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss concluded her career (in the Family Division of the High Court) as she took her pension with an announcement of her newly developed view that British governments had not done enough to support the family. Her repentance came as figures showed the proportion of kids living with only one parent had risen from 21% to 27% during Labour’s term of office.

ITALY TO BOOST BIRTH RATE Faced with being wiped out as a White Christian country by 2100, the Italians, with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi among them, began thinking about rewarding Italian motherhood.

EURO-APARTHEID FLOURISHES TO HANDLE IMMIGRANTS Following the weeks of rioting by Blacks and Arabs in France’s banlieux, it transpired that Germany, despite prating about the joys of multiculturalism, had developed similar segregation – with three central suburbs of Berlin having become 60% Turkish, Kurdish or Arab. In these areas, young men as well as women live in virtual slavery, with their marriages arranged by parents (AmRen, 4 xii).

JOYS OF DIVERSITY – RACE RIOTS ROCK SYDNEY As 5,000 beach-attired (or non-attired) young Australians, many draped in the national flag, turned out in surfing resort Cronulla (fifteen miles south of Sydney city centre) to protest at Lebanese cockiness and aggression, gun-toting Lebanese [whom police didn’t dare relieve of their weapons, illegal though they were under Australian politicians’ attempts to emaciate the population] smashed 60 cars and many shops with baseball bats in well-organized reply (first clearing streets forcibly of witnesses) and both sides called for “war” in text messages. As clashes broke out all around Botany Bay [the original landing ground for Britain’s transported convicts], with Whites telling the “wogs,” “We grew here, you flew here,” the White nationalist group Australia First called openly for patriotic Australians to assemble in protest on the Cronulla peninsula on December 18^th. In two nights of rioting there had been 31 serious injuries (on both sides, one a back-stabbing by a Lebanese), 16 arrests, a retreat by the police protected by ‘Bra Boys’ (Whites from Maroubra) and a complaint of attempted rape by a Lebanese who opened a car door, put his hand directly up a girl’s skirt and told her and she would be raped as an “Aussie slut.” Politicians responded by quadrupling police strengths around Botany Bay and giving police ‘lockdown’ powers to close pubs, arrest drinkers, halt fast-speeding motor convoys and jail rioters for 15 years so as to smash the “ratbags” who were tarnishing Sydney’s multicultural image. But race-related incidents were reported from the Gold Coast, Perth and Adelaide and it was felt necessary to cancel the Cronulla’s annual surfing festival scheduled for Dec. 11. Muslim women’s groups called on Muslim parents to confiscate their kids’ cars and mobile phones so as to disrupt rioting. Several churches came under attack -- one razed and others with windows broken, including one church whose mystified worshippers were largely of Tongan extraction. But Oz had come centre-stage in the West’s battle against the low-IQ psychotics brought in by its businessmen and politicians – for short-term gain but without democratic approval and while mortgaging the future. The big question remained whether the healthy 5,000 Australian young patriots could rapidly expand to 50,000 – and preferably without being drink- or marijuana-fuelled. A just-about-critique of White-bashing press coverage appeared at http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47933: it began, "When an Arab torches a school, it's rebellion. When a white guy does it, it's fascism," says French-Jewish philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut. Star lines were: “In the 21st century, antiracism will be what communism was in the 20th” and “The question isn’t what is the best model of integration, but just what sort of integration can be achieved with people who hate you.”

FROGGIES READY TO JAIL OUTSPEAKING PROF Leading the way -- as so often historically -- in oppression, statism, sadism and cowardice in front of the mob, the French convicted a 58-year old philosopher and rightish-wing M.P. (within France’s governing UMP party), Professor Christian Vanneste, who had dared to tell two newspapers that homosexuality could, under some circumstances, be a “danger to mankind” (Daily Telegraph, 15 xii). For his politically incorrect agreement with standard Catholic doctrine, the professor was to spend Christmas waiting to see if he would be jailed for six months (as well as being fined $25,000); but at least his trial had begun the helpful process of linking PeeCee’s tyranny especially to the ever-failing state of France. Professor Vanneste was also centre-stage in another controversy splitting France, for he had successfully slipped a passage mandating schoolteachers to retail the glories of the French empire into an otherwise unremarked Government bill (MSNBC, 17 xii).

RACE-IQ LINK BACKED FROM HARVARD In a talk to New York Jews in mid-December, Harvard’s Professor Steven Pinker lent his considerable authority to Utah University work earlier this year (see above, June) to the effect that Ashkenazi Jews had a 15-IQ-point advantage over Europeans. Importantly, Sephardic Jews (who lived fairly integratedly in Spain for centuries before being kicked out) did not have this advantage, which apparently came from the northerly Ashkenazi Jews being blocked from all trades except finance – leading to expanded numbers of those who carried a recessive gene for IQ which in double dose brings the grave and distinctively Jewish disorder of Tay-Sachs disease. {But the media scrupulously ignored Pinker’s conversion to public race realism…. – The London Times finally gave Cochran & Harpending a mention on January 2^nd, 2006, in its ‘Science Notebook,’ but with a covering conclusion that Ashkenazi genius might just be due to “pushy Jewish mothers nagging their sons to do well”….}

IQ REALISM TO COME IN EDUCATION In line with the proposals of Chapter 4 of The g Factor (1996), Britain’s NuLabour Government announced plans that would allow academically ungifted children to abandon the GCSE curriculum and instead choose from among 14 strictly vocational courses such as Hair & Beauty, Engineering and Leisure & Tourism. {But the start date would only be in 2008 and it remained unclear whether employers had been properly involved in preparing the new courses, validating them, and agreeing to employ those with passes in them. The British Chamber of Commerce further stressed the need for communication skills, timekeeping and the right attitude to work.} {In another victory for the ideas of The g Factor, 83% of Brits told pollsters they wanted school classes to be streamed (only 4% thought streaming a bad idea, and 13% said they did not know) (Daily Telegraph, 19 xii).

IMMIGRATION ANALYZED While American neocons pooh-poohed the French for failing to adopt affirmative racism to cope with Arab immigration, America’s top journalist, Steve Sailer, pointed out in American Conservative (19 xii) that America had had plenty of race riots since the 1960s, that unemployment among young Black men had risen from 10% in the 1960’s to 30% today, and that at any given time a staggering further 10% of US Bleckmen were in jail. So why were America and its President Dubya Bush so enamoured of Latino immigrant labour? The answer, SS concluded, was that the trouble is invariably with second-generation immigrants, not with the deferential and grateful first-generation semi-slaves – a helpful point in explaining how societies like those of ancient Rome and the modern West can come to have a favourable view of slavery ooops immigration, blind to the troubles that will brew from non-deferential, low-IQ children (the father having been allowed to import a low-IQ bride from his native land) who have little idea of how lucky they are to live in the West rather than the hell holes of the Third World.

RACE REALISM GROWS In the aftermath of the October riots in France (during which 9,000 cars were torched by Blacks and Arabs), 33% of people said they would call themselves ‘racist’ – up from 25% in 2004 – and 25% said they would vote for Jean-Marie Le Pen. Despite a generation of propaganda from politicians and the press, 50% said they did not welcome immigration, compared to only 30% welcoming it (United Press International, 18 xii). Polling in Australia found that 75% of people thought their neighbours were racist (The Age, 24 xii). On Christmas Day, 100 cars were torched in France – a figure police said was the same as the usual daily average. On New Year’s Eve, the tally of voitures flambées was 425. On New Year’s Day, some 25 North African youths steamed for five hours through a Nice-Paris express train, looting, vandalizing, pillaging and molesting women – after police finally boarded the train, the Arab vandals pulled the emergency stop handle and made their escape across fields. -- French Socialists expressed “astonishment” at this episode.

BRAIN SIZE AND IQ CORRELATED – NEW WORK
Brain size matters for intellectual ability and bigger is better. At Ontario’s McMaster University researchers found IQ to be correlated with brain size (McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences, 22 xii). The study, led by neuroscientist Sandra Witelson, a professor in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, and published in the December issue of the journal Brain, provided some of the clearest evidence as to the underlying basis of differences in intelligence. The study involved testing intelligence in 100 neurologically normal, terminally ill volunteers, who agreed that their brains be measured after death. The main finding was that ‘bigger is better,’ but there were differences between women and men. In women, verbal intelligence was strongly correlated with brain size, accounting for 36 percent of the verbal IQ score. In men, this was true for right-handers only, indicating that brain asymmetry is a factor in men. Spatial intelligence was also correlated with brain size in women, but less strongly. In men, spatial ability was not related to overall brain
size. These results suggest that women may use verbal strategies in spatial thinking, but that in men, verbal and spatial thinking are more distinct.
In the weeks after publication, the story was covered in several Indian newspapers and by one in Professor Witelson’s native Canada, but virtually nowhere else and without any mention of Phil Rushton’s long-standing advocacy of the thesis – such was still the head-in-the-sand of the West’s media to IQ having any markedly biological basis.

RACE- AND SLAVERY-REALISM The Government of Ghana resolved to invite all Afro-Americans of Ghanaian lineage to return to Ghana, with its tourism minister saying “We hope we can bring the African family together again” – though doubtless hoping for massive inward investment from healthy and relatively well-educated Blacks. But ordinary Ghanaians expressed astonishment and doubted whether a single Black American would wish to abandon the countless advantages gained from his ancestors’ enslavement – i.e. rescue from Black tyranny, free passage across the Atlantic, being given safe if heavy work (it was the wandering Irish who were used for dangerous work) and finally manumitted and finding whole political parties devoted to their interests (first the Republicans, later the Democrats) (American Renaissance, 27 xii).

RACE REALISM INDIAN-STYLE After years in which the West’s peecee politicos had complained about Israel’s wall to keep out Palestinians and had refused to contemplate the U.S.A. building a wall to keep out Mexicans, it transpired that holy Hindu India would, in 2006, complete a 2,500-mile steel double wall (the gap filled with razor wire) to slash terror, illegal immigration, people trafficking and smuggling by its neighbours in Muslim Bangladesh (American Renaissance, 29 xii). The plan followed the success of India’s previous use of 1,000 miles of barbed wire fencing and would be supported by a force of 50,000 Indian soldiers, so eager was India to cut the 65,000 Bangladeshis who had annually been crossing the border illegally in the 1990’s.

January, 2006

Economist BACKS GENES After years of ignoring Richard Lynn’s work on IQ and the Wealth of Nations, the Economist ran a short article backing the theory of Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending (see June) that important evolution was still occurring in man, as witness Jewish (Ashkenazi) development of high intelligence just a thousand years ago. The article went on to add that eugenics should not be outlawed in a liberal society – quite a breakthrough for the cowardly neocons who run the Economist! {However, the turn-of-the-year note was accompanied by another article titled ‘Race is only skin deep’ – VDare, 1 i 06. Nor was the Economist sound on free speech, urging Danish journalists and parliamentarians to get a grip on their ‘rudeness’ to Muslims – Front Page, 12 i 06.}

NATURE, NOT NURTURE Of twelve scientists selected to air their views for the New Year in the Daily Telegraph (3 i 06), no less than three of them were hereditarian (and none was environmentalist): my pal David Buss (U. Texas) noted ‘the beast within’; my one-time drinks partner Richard Dawkins (U. Oxford) said we should remedy faulty genes, not punish their possessors; and formerly race-evasive genetic code-breaker Craig Venter was even allowed to claim there were “strong genetic components” in “most aspects of human existence, including personality sub-types, language capabilities, mechanical abilities, intelligence, sexual activities and preferences, intuitive thinking, willpower, temperament, athletic abilities and so on.”

PEECEE DENOUNCED BY MUSLIM M.P. Glasgow Central’s Labour M.P., a Muslim called Mohammad Sarwar, condemned political correctness in the police as it turned out that Asian gangs – left largely unmolested by Britain’s cringeing coppers , fearing accusations of political incorrectness  – had turned their attention largely to raiding Pakistani shops. Other Muslim luminaries agreed with Sarwar, as did a Scottish Conservative spokeswoman. {But the rest of Britain’s peecee media agreed to suppress the story.}

FUNDAY TIMES BACKS FAMILY In the bizarre scene of U.K. politics, where only newspapers really matter, the top broadsheet Sunday Times (responsible for the blackening of Sir Cyril Burt’s name) got as far as blaming NuLabour for showing “scant respect for the institution of marriage” (leading article, 8 i 2006) – though still regarding ‘families’ and ‘education’ as things that might be provided by the beneficent state regardless of individual genetic proclivities). Meanwhile, NuTory ‘Dave’ Cameron feigned to be a “liberal Conservative”, suggesting he might have learned something from this Diary’s advocacy of “national liberalism.”

TORIES FOR The g Factor Just ten years after my book was published and Labour leader Tony Blair backed its proposal for school streaming, the new Conservative leader David Cameron announced he favoured neither a return to grammar schools nor funding for state-school kids to attend independent schools but simply an increasing number of state-school pupils being educated in classes according to their abilities (Sun, 10 i) by means of subject-based streaming (or ‘setting’). He also thought schools should be allowed to select 10% of their pupils according to mathematical ability – and not just for dancing, drawing and languages as at present. That streaming helps children of all ability levels was confirmed in figures from England’s exam boards: when ‘value-added’ effects were studied (as advocated in The g Factor), they were greatest for children in streamed systems (Spectator, 14 i, Ross Clark). {Currently it is estimated that some 40% of state pupil hours are spent in streamed classes. The main obstacle to any increase in streaming is probably left-wing teachers and school heads.}

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS TO BE REVISED As Muslim supremo Iqbal Sacranie came under investigation by police for alleged hate speech (he had criticized homosexuality) (Evening Standard, 13 i), top cop Sir Ian Blair announced a review that would end by restricting accusations of hate speech to members of the British National Party, the Conservative Party and the London School. {Perhaps hearing their master’s voice, cops decided after ten days’ deliberation to take no further action against Sacranie.}

LOW INDIAN AND PAKISTANI IQ EXPLAINED Indians have few Caucasian or even Central Asian genes, researchers at India’s National Institute of Biologicals, Uttar Pradesh, reported (National Geographic Magazine, 10 i 06), thus linking the subcontinent genetically with the South Asian pattern of low-ish general intelligence (though probably with a wider range than in the West).

BLACK COP COULDN’T COPE A Black policeman in charge of guarding Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall resigned after unspecified errors and incompetence – but, in the peecee way of things, following initiation of court action against them, London’s Metropolitan Police awarded him £70K compensation because of his “over-promotion” and lack of adequate training as part of an affirmative action programme (American Renaissance, 8 i 06).

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN I record here with sadness the death at age 68 of my good friend and supporter Geoffrey Sharps who did so much to advise me and keep my spirits up with his unfailing good humour as we battled with Edinburgh LUniversity through 1996-8. Geoffrey long lectured in literature in Scarborough, but his training in Edinburgh had included psychology and he was very sound on genetic questions and, more unusually, game to battle illiberal paedohysteria. He will long be remembered, not least by the principal figures in E.LU. of those days to whom we gave such a very hard time. (Also not forgotten is my depublished book, The g Factor, recalled – along with Richard Lynn’s IQ and the Wealth of Nations (see review) by the Press Officer of the British National Party, Phil Edwards, writing for National Vanguard, 6 i 2006.)

PAEDOHYSTERIA CHALLENGED As Government Education Minister Ruth Kelly (36, and – like me -- of The Queen’s College, Oxford) came under massive media attack for allowing a few barely detectable paedophiles* to teach in schools, she was defended by Lord Tebbit (on BBC 1’s ‘Question Time, 12 i), by columnist Tom Utley (Daily Telegraph, 14 i), by columnist Simon Jenkins (Sunday Times, 15 i), by columnist Leo McKinstry (Spectator, 21 i) and by Thatcherite Lord Tebbitt and politician-turned-TV-artist Michael Portillo (Sunday Times, 22 i). {But the defences were to no avail: faced with tabloid hysteria, Mrs Kelly gave in and decided that in future the slightest suspicion of paedophilia would lead to the suspect being banned from any work with or near children. And in the Times Higher there was a suggestion that even 18-year-olds of today would need similar protection – despite most of them having begun their own sex lives by around age 12.}
* In one case, a young schoolteacher had downloaded some kiddieporn, possibly accidentally. In another, a 59-year-old teacher had had an affair with a 15-year-old as far back as 1980.

PEECEE CHALLENGED NuTory leader ‘Dave’ Cameron said he would free U.K. police from McPherson-style demands for political correctness and instead reward them for the number of true villains they actually caught (Sun, 16 i).

SCHOOL SEGREGATION INCREASES IN CALIFORNIA As Whites and Asians sought refuge in California’s suburbs from the dumbing down, criminality, AIDS and affirmative-racist prejudices of Black areas, California's schools -- already some of the USA's most de facto racially segregated -- were becoming even more divided along Black/Hispanic vs White/Asian lines, a study found (American Renaissance, 17 i). Evidently race realism was re-asserting itself in America after a generation of multi-trillion-dollar propaganda and social engineering.

LEFT PREPARES TO CAVE ON RACE On the happy day that my Taiwanese wife was told she had her Glasgow University Ph.D. in the bag, the Grauniad began to brace its readers for the London School’s success in the race wars, with top lefty columnist Marek Kohn admitting (17 i) “We have gone beyond the stage where the question of racial science could be seen as a straightforward contest between decent values and sinister pseudoscience.” {The leftist but intelligent Kohn’s admission of the apparently “unstoppable tide of genetic research” was reprinted in Australia’s The Age, 30 i. Such re-positioning by the left is highly significant – evidently there is no longer a Stephen Jay Gould prepared to manic-magisterially distract attention from race realism by concentrating on what Kohn calls the London School’s “historical baggage.” Soon, as I long taught at Edinburgh LUniversity, the left will embrace eugenics – though doubtless urging that eugenics only be applied for the benefit of whatever are the left’s choice minority groups of the moment. You read it here or in McDougall NewsLetters first.}

ITALIANS PLAN TO BOOST BIRTHS Italy’s multi-millionaire Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced his Government would in future be providing a birthday present worth £650 for each Italian newborn.

TRENDY ANTI-MULTICULTURALISM In a surprise development, the Sunday Times published a substantial review article complaining that large swathes of the poorer areas of London had become multicultural wastelands – while Hampstead liberals had to put up only with immigrants paying half-a-million pounds per house (22 i). The fact that the article was by a homosexual journalist, Peter Whittle, was perhaps the chief explanation of how such a race-realist article could be published…. But another straw in the wind came in the Spectator (21 i) where jolly Rod Liddle was allowed to blame Black educational not on poor White teachers ‘labelling’ them but on the children’s “anti-educational tendencies” – a splendid neologism for stupidity even if Liddle felt obliged to attribute it as arising “within the culture from which they emanate.” Like Whittle, Liddle remarked on the charmed lives of Hampstead and Crouch End where ‘immigration’ means nothing more than a local North Indian Frontier restaurant and a Polish nanny and not the erosion of one’s entire community as for Oldham, Dagenham and such Whites who any longer remain in Bradford.

CONTINUING FAILURE OF BLACK-BOOSTING EFFORTS Despite a generation of expensive educational initiatives, including the latest ‘No Child Left Behind’ programme emanating four years ago from the White House, Boston elementary schools announced a comprehensive failure to close the Black/Hispanic – White/Asian gap among children (20% of the former were deemed ‘proficient’ compared to 50% of the latter) (American Renaissance, 20 i).

PEECEE PROFS EXPOSED After years of leftification of American and British universities, with no opposition from conservatives, right-wing money became available to pay students to tape-record lefty professors at the University of California, Los Angeles, and put the results up on the net: www.uclaprofs.com. UCLA authorities expressed outrage and threatened legal action to support their post-Marxist, post-modern and peecee goons in gowns.

RACE-REALISM PEEKS OUT IN (LONDON) TIMES As a nice young Cambridge-educated lawyer working for the Queen’s firm of solicitors was stabbed to death by a Black in the Tube for no apparent reason, and other elite Whites were equally gratuitously attacked, Times columnist Camilla Cavendish was sufficiently daring to publish an article about such ‘stranger attacks’ which concluded: “We must keep the danger in perspective; but we must cease glorifying a world which is colliding with ours” (19 i). Heady stuff!!....

DUTCH DEFY ISLAMOFASCISM With several of their leading figures killed by Muslims or in hiding, the Dutch Parliament went ahead to ban the burkha in public places and to demand that immigrants have Dutch and show other tested signs of integration – but it was far from clear that the peecee tyrants of the European Union would allow these brave moves to go ahead. {Germany also moved towards demanding that German be spoken in all public places and that would-be immigrants be grilled as to their political philosophies -- http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2006/01/muslim_undesirables_need_not_a.php.}

SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTALISM BLASTED A fine critique of environmentalism, “the affirmative action hoax,” perpetrated by S. J. Gould and Daniel Goleman (‘emotional intelligence’), appeared at http://www.affirmativeactionhoax.com/.

BOOK THROWN AT B.N.P. As the British National Party’s leader went on trial in Leeds, it transpired that even recommendations immigrants and asylum seekers be deported were considered by the prosecution as the dreaded ‘incitements to racial hatred.’ {Contrast above where Muslim supremo Iqbal Sacranie was not even charged with anything when he said homosexuality was unhealthy for society….}

PEECEE TURNS TO DEVOUR ITSELF A major rift opened up in British PeeCee as top cop Sir Ian Blair, head of the Metropolitan Police (which had been busy purging itself of all ‘institutional racism’ since the MacPherson Report of 1999), accused Britain’s media of the dreaded ‘racism’ for over-reporting murders of Whites compared to murders of Blacks and Pakistanis. The pressmen themselves took this spinelessly enough; but Ian Blair had specially criticized ‘over-reporting’ of the Soham murders of two pretty ten-year-old girls by sex-mad Ian Huntley, so the Soham community went up in arms and Blair had to apologize for re-opening old wounds. {Just as witchcraft allegations in ‘The Crucible’ escalated from a single case to much of the community standing accused, so accusations of ‘racism’ against me in 1996 have now spread to the Met and to the British media as a whole.}

LONDON SCHOOL DEFENDED BY PHILOSOPHER The fine article by Croatian philosopher Neven Sesardic accusing S. J. Gould, Ned Block et al. of literally ignoring the arguments and evidence on racial differences put forward by Art Jensen, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray became available at http://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/staff/sesardic/POS-2000.pdf.

MORE RACE REALISM American Blacks were found to prefer Black doctors to White – Am.Ren., 31 i.

February, 2006

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS DEFIED -- SPARKING MUSLIM RAGE AND GIVING A DEMONSTRATION OF ISLAMOFASCIST VIOLENCE Denmark’s Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, insisted on the right of his country’s media to criticize and lampoon Islam (as had happened in September in Denmark’s biggest daily, the right-of-centre Jyllands-Posten, which had wanted to test a suggestion [from an author who had failed to find a cartoonist for an intended children’s book about Islam – meant to explain Islam sympathetically to Danish children] as to whether the West was engaged in ‘self-censorship’ about Islam). Newspapers all over Western Europe (and one in Israel) then re-published as a pro-free-speech protest the cartoons [http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/698] about Mahomet* that had sparked Muslim outrage and led to burning of the Danish flag in the Middle East, withdrawal of Arab ambassadors from Copenhagen and total boycotts of Danish produce. Ex-US President Willy Clinton called the cartoons “totally outrageous”; but, ironically, it was hard for many to tell because they could not see them – and, later, the Sunday Telegraph (5 ii) said the original twelve cartoons, published on just one newspaper page in September, had been massively supplemented by Muslim extremists to yield a 43-page dossier for circulation to imams in the Middle East, the dossier including obscene cartoons which had never actually been published in Europe. In Britain, after pro-free-speech protests from several Muslim, Christian and atheist organizations (letter to Daily Telegraph, 31 i), the Government lost (somewhat accidentally, by one vote) in the House of Commons its measure to criminalize ‘religious hate speech’** which would have impacted on comedians and enthusiastic preachers (though the Commons made an exception to its veto for speech actually intended to and calculated to yield inter-racial violence). {Subsequently, the editor of Egyptian-owned ailing France Soir was fired for publishing the cartoons, as was an editor in Jordan; but the BBC found the courage to carry them briefly on its flagship TV programme BBC 1 (2 ii). Scores of thousands of Middle-Eastern Muslims indulged their feelings by flag-burning, hate mail and threatening to bomb the offending newspapers, to “bomb Denmark,” to behead journalists and to kidnap foreigners. Westerners fled the West Bank and Gaza.} {The British Government – joined by the White House – grovelled to the mad mullahs as much as it could; but 500 Islamofascists were turned out in Knightsbridge, London, to burn the Danish flag and chant – despite Britain having caved in -- “Britain, Britain, you will pay / 7’7 is on its way.” The Metropolitan ‘Police’ failed to arrest a single person for such threats and instead concentrated on cautioning and detaining Whites who made objections to the Muslim death-threateners, trying to reassure Whites by saying ‘Don’t worry, we have the photographs.’} {The left was split down the middle as to whether the Danes were entitled to free speech -- Guardian, 4 ii; and the paper’s editor sheltered behind Home Secretary Jack Straw’s feeble formula that it had ‘no obligation’ to publish the cartoons (Guardian, 4 ii), which had by then been published even in the Holy Republic of Éireland. Of 70,000 people who responded to an online survey by France’s left-wing Nouvel Observateur, 53% were in favour of publishing the cartoons and 47% were against. } {On 4 ii, the Danish and Norwegian embassy building in Damascus was burned out by a Muslim mob; on 5 ii the Danish embassy building in Beirut was ablaze and a Maronite Christian church had all its windows smashed in a protest involving thousands; on 6 ii, in Turkey, a high school student was arrested on suspicion of killing a Catholic priest told police he was influenced by seeing the cartoons -- the priest was shot dead while praying; and elsewhere hundreds of cars were vandalized and stones, rocks and bottles were hurled at a European Commission building, a German embassy, and at police trying to control rioters. Braver than the newspapers of Britain and America, New Zealand’s Dominion Post (serving the capital, Wellington) published the cartoons, saying “We will not be intimidated”; and Canada’s centrist Globe and Mail condemned Muslim “over-reaction” and said most of the many problems of Islamic countries were “home-grown.”} {An imam at the Omari Mosque in Gaza City told 9,000 worshippers that the people behind the drawings should have their heads cut off. 'If they want a war of religions, we are ready,' Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon. In Ramallah, protesters burnt a Danish flag, chanting: 'Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up.' 6^th February brought Muslim-on-Muslim killing as Afghan police fired on crowds of thousands of enraged religionists, of whom four died.} {The Muslim protests were highly ironical, partly in using so much violence to contest their religion being portrayed as violent, and partly because Islam is a clear world leader in violence against other faiths – having from 1998 to 2003 killed 10,000 Christians in Indonesia alone and destroyed ancient Buddhist monuments in Afghanistan.} {Key Danish products to support are Danish bacon, Carlsberg Lager and the super-sultry, splendidly leggy and niftily-nipple