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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-17 11:58:28 [ Print | 1 Comment(s) | Category: Concern
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The governors of Arizona and New Mexico have declared a state of emergency along their borders with Mexico. Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona, both Democrats and liberals, attributed the step to uncontrolled immigration, and the crime and disruption that accompanies it, and placed the blame on the federal governments of the United States and Mexico. Governor Richardson declared that New Mexico’s border counties have been devastated by the “ravages and terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling, kidnapping,
murder, destruction of property and death of livestock.” Richardson, who has Mexican ancestry, also suggested that a Mexican town used as a staging point for drug and people smuggling be bulldozed. Neither governor faulted the work of the severely undermanned U.S. Border Patrol. Governor Napolitano, who strongly opposed last year’s successive ballot initiative to deny state aid to illegal aliens, complained yesterday that “Both federal governments let us down—there doesn’t seem to be any sense of urgency.” The state of emergency allows both governors to obtain several million dollars in federal government funding to deal with the depredations of illegal immigration, a drop in the bucket absent the resolve to enforce existing immigration laws, and to enact new ones and make them stick. Without such resolve, the immigration crisis on the border—and throughout increasing expanses of the heartland—can only worsen: a recent poll carried out in Mexico by the Pew Hispanic Center found that nearly one of every two Mexicans (46 percent) would live in the United States if they had “the means and opportunity.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-17 11:58:28 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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While Democratic governors in neighboring states were beginning to face up to the illegal immigrant flood from Mexico, the Republican candidate for governor of Texas, Carol Strayhorn, was publicly advocating that the state she seeks to govern should receive and support most illegal entrants with open arms. Strayhorn told an audience at the Greater Houston Pachyderm Club: “I sympathize with those coming over who want to put a roof over their heads. We can’t turn them away from the hospital steps.” The gubernatorial candidate’s one concession to border security—“We have to protect our borders from terrorists”—served only to underline her disregard for protecting her fellow Texans and Americans against the many other threats illegal aliens pose. In addition to stressing the obligation of the state to provide federal medical and educational aid to illegals, Strayhorn stressed her support for bilingual education to questioners at the club. Despite rising opposition to out-of-control immigration from across the American political spectrum, Carol Strayhorn is evidently taking her tactics from Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman’s new playbook for wooing Mexicans, blacks, and other minorities (see “Immigration Control Congressman Backs Extension of Babel Law,” TOH, July 13, 2004). Bob Stein, a Rice University political scientist, speculated that Strayhorn’s refusal to take the increasingly popular stance in support of border control might be due to her reliance on campaign funding from homebuilders and highway construction firms that employ large numbers of illegals.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-17 11:58:28 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Heightened citizen scrutiny of Denver’s public library has revealed that library branches in the Mile High City have been offering thousands of pornographic comic books in Spanish that depict nudity, sexual acts, and violence against white women (the covers pictured on the web page of the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform [see below] disclose that a high proportion of the women being ravished or manhandled are blond, and some are under age). While the fotonovelas (as the genre is known in Mexico) were evidently acquired in hopes of catering to semiliterate immigrant laborers, under Denver library policy they could be viewed and withdrawn by all library patrons, including children. The Denver Public Library has hastened to remove the scurrilous “literature” from its shelves, and library officials are now perspiring over the possibility of what a review of all the library’s 2.5 million books, tapes, and CDs might unearth (Denver librarians continue to defend the trashy Mexican pulps as “light” reading for their immigrant clientele). The discovery of the obscene comics was in part sparked by Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo’s warning in June that the DPL was planning to convert several of its branches to serve a Spanish-language clientele, a warning that was scornfully dismissed by Denver’s mayor and media at the time (see “Guarding the Border That Runs through Our Libraries,” TOH, June 24, 2005). Fueling the imaginations of day laborers from the Third World with sadistic fantasies targeted at white women and children is a logical consequence of America’s current immigration policy of tolerating a flood of unskilled, ill-paid, and unpoliced workers.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-12 11:51:28 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Concern
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Tests of routine proficiency in reading, math, and English can be dangerous to American corporations’ weal, as appliance maker Whirlpool, Inc. learned this week when it settled a Department of Labor suit that alleged the corporation had discriminated against current and potential black employees. As Labor Department officials scrutinized a Whirlpool federal contract (all federal contractors must be in conformance with the “affirmative action” provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act), they discovered that a significantly higher percentage of Whirlpool’s African-American employees and applicants had flunked multiple choice tests in basic English and math than had whites. According to U.S. law binding on all federal contractors, such a disparity should trigger an instant alarm in company personnel departments, who must then carry out a study to determine whether the test really measures job-related skills or knowledge. Since human resource officers at Whirlpool’s Tulsa manufacturing center either failed to commission the necessary study or, worse, regarded elementary skills in reading and arithmetic as necessary for entry-level assembly jobs, on Wednesday the corporation found itself hiring 48 blacks who had failed the tests, paying an $850,000 settlement, and issuing an Orwellian promise to do no more discriminatory evil: “We have since taken steps to carefully evaluate all hiring practices and recommendations to ensure fairness to all potential employees.” Needless to say, Whirlpool’s settlement costs are small and will be passed on to consumers; federal standards, as successively enforced by administrations whether Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal, often involve much larger settlements (see “Corporate Payout Road Sign to Race-Based Promotion,” TOH, April 24, 2005) and strike at white Americans in a myriad of ways, from financing measures that enforce their own second-class employment status to ensuring a steady stream of inferior goods and services from the illiterate and innumerate employees who have replaced better qualified whites.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-12 11:51:28 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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The Bureau of the Census announced yesterday that Texas has become the fourth state to have a majority minority population, with Hispanics, blacks, and Asians now representing 50.2 percent of the state’s population of 22.5 million (while Hispanics may be white, the U.S. government counts them as a separate ethnic group, and the great majority are of Indian, black, or mixed racial origin). According to the Census Bureau, there are now four states with nonwhite majorities—California, New Mexico, and Hawaii—and the bureau forecasts that the nation as a whole will have a majority that is nonwhite and predominantly derived from Africa, Asia, and the indigenous peoples of the Americas by mid-century. This news occasioned no expressed anxiety, and occasional joy, among the demographers and minority leaders cited in the accompanying reports, but the prospect of white Americans losing majority status in the nation whose constitution was dedicated by its (uniformly white) founders to “ourselves and our posterity” should sound an alarm bell in the night—and in the day—that rings constantly and clangorously until America’s founding, building, and sustaining people impels its government to tackle and to solve the demographic threat to the nation as we, our ancestors, and indeed the vast majority of the world’s peoples have understood it since 1776. The problems that constitute that threat—including the birth dearth among whites, massive Third World immigration (legal and illegal), and government-subsidized births among indigent aliens and immigrants—do not admit at present of easy solutions, but they overshadow any menace the nation has faced in its history. Solving them will test Americans’ resolve, pragmatism, and ingenuity to the limit; leaving them unsolved will leave a white minority in an alien “America” hardly worth living in.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-12 11:51:28 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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In an unprecedented show of “solidarity” with a minority religious group, the commander of the Nottinghamshire police has asked members of his four thousand strong force to wear green ribbons to symbolize their sympathy with the local Islamic community. According to Chief Constable Steve Green, Nottingham Muslims have been the victims of “racist” incidents as well as widespread suspicion among white Britons following July’s attacks in London. Green claims that the bobbies under his command will not be compelled to wear of the ribbons, of which he has ordered twenty thousand (at a cost of £2,000). Green’s initiative has been hailed by Dr. Musharraf Hussain, the imam of Nottingham’s largest mosque, “a wonderful gesture.” Support for Green’s gesture is far from universal among Britain’s native English, Scottish, and Welsh, who recall that the attacks of July 7 and the later attempts were perpetrated by Muslims of Third World origin who had earlier passed for “British” by the easy canons of Green and other multiculturalists (see “In Britain, Diversity Bites (and Bombs),” TOH, July 29, 2005). The Tory peer Lord Tebbit doubtless expressed more widespread considerations when he observed, “I did not know that the police were so well-funded that they could spend money in this way. Nor did I know that the police could show solidarity with anybody or any group except the Queen.” Chief Constable Green earlier made waves by claiming that his Nottingham force was swamped by murder cases and might have to “farm out” the inquiries to outside investigators, an admission that has brought Green himself under investigation by the Home Office.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-09 13:15:05 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Recent statistics from the U.S. Department of Education on the racial makeup of America’s schools paint a grim picture of the nation’s potential future. According to the DOE’s report The Condition of Education 2005, as of two years ago the racial and ethnic makeup of America’s public primary and secondary schools had risen to 42 percent nonwhite. Two years ago in the West (defined in the report as California, the other Pacific states, and the Rocky Mountain states, in other words well over half the U.S. land mass) white pupils had shrunk to a minority, 46 percent of the total. As The Condition of Education 2005 blithely notes, pupil numbers are soaring, thanks to immigration and to births among immigrants (the key factor in a 25 percent rise in the U.S. birth rate since the mid-1970s, with the public school enrollment reaching 48.2 million in 2004 and projected to hit 50 million in 2014—with the current “majority minority” enrollment in the West leading the way. The report reveals that the percentage of public school pupils who speak another language (usually Spanish) at home has leaped from 9 percent in 1979 to 19 percent in 2003—an important predictor for huge future public expenses on the schools to remedy that problem, as well as a sure indicator for significant levels of school failure, dropping out, and adhesion to ethnic gangs like the ones presently preying on Los Angeles, the Washington suburbs, and numerous other American localities. Predictably, the report massages test scores to obscure evidence of inferior performance, but is forced to concede that America’s increasingly Third World public school pupils lag behind those of most others in the European and East Asian nations with which the United States will be competing economically and otherwise this century.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-09 13:15:04 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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While Denmark has a center-right government that attempts to control immigration (often under the strong prodding of the Danish People’s Party, a coalition member), as in other countries there is often a gap between representative government and the workings of the entrenched bureaucracy. Danes have just learned that the national Immigration Service and Integration Ministry and the Foreign Ministry have been knowingly ignoring evidence of fraud by foreign students who swear that they have the 50,000 krones required for admission to study in Denmark. Thanks to the testimony of a former ministry employee accused of selling residency permits to Chinese desirous of coming to Denmark, ISIM officials have been forced to admit that they have been aware for over two years of a widely practiced scam whereby entering students acquired the mandatory 50,000 DK in order to obtain the entry permit, then transferred the sum to another foreign student, and so on and so on. The director of the immigration service was forced to admit, “We have known that applicants have in some cases withdrawn the money from the bank shortly after using it as documentation for us.” Integration Minister Rikke Hvilshøj hastened to promise new regulations that would enable it to check students’ accounts after they get their residence permits. Pro-Danish forces, such as the DPP, should be pressing hard for an accounting of the immigration and foreign affairs ministries’ criminal laxity in this affair.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-09 13:15:04 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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The two conservative parties that are challenging New Zealand’s Labor government, led by prime minister Helen Clark, in national elections to be held September 17. The larger National Party, headed by Don Brash, a former governor of New Zealand’s reserve bank, has just proposed an immigration policy that, without specifically mentioning immigrants from Third World countries, would make entry to New Zealand less desirable by deferring benefits for four years, extending the probation period for permanent status from two to four years, preferring immigrants with more desirable skills, and similar deterrent provisions. Yet the NP’s program elicited nothing but sneers from Winston Peters, head of the New Zealand First Party, who accused Brash of trying to pilfer from NZFP’s platform, and unsuccessfully at that. Indeed, both Brash and Peters agree that the New Zealand First Party has the tougher stance against immigration, which, while not mentioning national origins either, seeks to drastically cut back immigrant numbers, to impose tough standards for refugees and asylum seekers, and to require that all immigrants have “a sound command of English, a job, and be willing to integrate into New Zealand society.” In truth, the New Zealand First Party has little chance of winning the election, while the National Party has been running neck and neck with Labor. Thus the anti-immigration vote will play an uncertain role in the outcome. While in the short run the competition among immigration reform parties for that vote may seem deplorable, the rise in anti-immigration consciousness is not.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-05 13:46:04 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Seventy-five miles of Arizona’s southern frontier—the nation’s busiest spot for illegal border crossings—are “guarded” by a mere barbed-wire fence, often in disrepair. Those 75 miles of border happen to abut the Tohono O’odham Indian reservation, and the Indians (who evidently lack a casino) have their hands full with problems which for them are more basic than alien intrusion than replacing or repairing the fence. Thus despite the presence of Border Patrol agents (undermanned even along more defensible segments of the border) terrorist, drug dealers, and tens of thousands of other unwanted entrants from Mexico and other Third World countries can and have slipped over the border and across the reservation with comparative ease. Along a 123-mile section of the border just to the west, the government is planning to build a 123-mile long barrier that, more or less like the Tohono O’odham’s barbed wire fence, will exclude vehicles, but not pedestrians; the Army Corps of Engineers is working on the useless barrier but may not meet the completion dates (March 2006 and later) because of possible “other missions,” according to a government spokesmen. Meanwhile, south of the border, the Hermosillo Archdiocese of the Catholic Church is planning to build shelters in Nogales and Naco, two major points for illegal entry into Arizona, for immigrants who intend to sneak into America; the archdiocese already operates a shelter that affords future illegals meals, air-conditioned sleeping quarters, and washing and bathing facilities in Altar, sixty miles to the south of the U.S. border.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-05 13:46:04 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Four Hmong gang members were arrested in a Minneapolissuburb last week in connection with the shooting murder of a former Tibetan monk and a Cambodian in a pool hall in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, last February. The arrests of Yatau Her, Xee Lor, Richard S. Vang, and Fong Vang bring to nine the number of suspects apprehended for the intra-Asian murder (police surmise that the killings resulted from a mistaken identification of the victims as members of a rival gang). Four other Tibetans were wounded in the incident. Two of the gang members arrested, Her and Lor, had earlier been charged with shooting a police deputy in St. Paul, while Her is also charged with shooting a convenience store clerk in Wisconsin. The victims of the murderous Hmong gang, which calls itself (accurately enough) the “Menace of Destruction,” owe their sufferings to the U.S. government policy of settling large numbers of often primitive Third World refugees in the American heartland—the Hmongs in Minnesota and Wisconsin, Somali Bantus in Pittsburgh, and the Sudanese in Lewiston, Maine, to name only a handful—and to the role of churches and other “service groups” in funneling welfare and other benefits paid for by Americans to the alien arrivals (see TOH, “Your Taxes Pay Churches to Resettle Hmongs,” Feb. 1, 2005 and “A New Home, Not the Old One, for Somali Bantus,” Dec. 5, 2005). Doubtless this new fraying of diversity’s “gorgeous tapestry” (as one immigration-happy New York City mayor called it) in Minnesota will be the occasion of new (tax-financed) initiatives from the church and service agencies to enlighten the Hmongs and Tibetans to multiculturalism’s wonders.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-05 13:46:04 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Concern
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The Dupont Circle International Academy was recently denied a charter by the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board. The Board’s reasoning had neither to do with the school’s low standards—in fact DCIA, planned as a K-6 school, has lofty goals, including Chinese-language immersion courses—or with its deviation from the norms of multiculturalism (it has been sponsored by the embassies of China, South Africa, Italy, and New Zealand, many of whose children were presumably to have attended). No, the problem for the DCPCSB was that the academy did not plan to accept or to promote academically deficient students, and according to Gloria Borlund, DCIA’s founder, the board’s reluctance to charter “at-grade-level-schools,” or schools in which promotion from grade to grade is based on performance (rather merely membership in an age-defined “cohort”). In other words, DCIA’s standards bumped up against the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board’s credo that “Charter schools are independently-operated public schools that are open to all District residents, regardless of their neighborhood, socioeconomic status or previous academic achievement, or ethnicity. There are no admission tests or tuition fees.” If nothing else, the diplomats among the chastened parents who founded DCIA can supply their superiors with valuable intelligence on the ongoing deterioration of the United States and its capital.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-02 14:47:25 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Action
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California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has created a task force with teeth to resume enforcement of California tax and labor law against businesses that employ workers—nearly all of them aliens, most of them illegal—at unlawful pay and conditions. Schwarzenegger’s new Economic and Employment Enforcement Coalition will conduct 100 workplace raids this week, and, while they will not be able to enforce federal immigration laws, will directly target the business interests largely responsible for the federal government’s indifference to illegal immigration. Victoria Bradshaw and Jose Millan, who led vigorous labor law enforcement against businesses that profited from immigrant labor a decade ago under Governor Pete Wilson, will lead the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, a key part of the coalition; the enforcement efforts of officials like Bradshaw and Millan were largely stymied under Wilson’s successor Gray Davis, who, as leftist journalist Robert Scheer notes, served the interests of big business as well as liberal Democrats. Schwarzenegger says that the EEEO’s goal is to “shut down the underground” economy. Whether that is possible or not, regardless of the underfunded project’s shortcomings (including its disregard of workers’ immigration status), striking the illegal alien problem at its root is imperative, and after years of neglect, the Schwarzenegger initiative is good news.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-02 14:47:25 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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The British immigration-control think tank Migration Watch has accused the British government of failing to count as many as 300,000 illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom, and for once British public opinion is taking notice. The murderous work of the July bombers in London—Third World immigrants or the offspring of Third World immigrants all—doubtless has something to do with that, as have the cumulative effects of the Blair government’s trimming and lying on illegal immigration (two ministers whose duties concerned immigration have been forced to resign in illegal immigration scandals in the past 16 months [see TOH, “Widening British Immigration Scandal…,” Apr. 4, 2004 and “Sikh Pizza Fells…,” Jan. 19, 2005]). Migration Watch chairman Sir Andrew Green criticized a Home Office estimate of illegal aliens issued in June (after years of government assurance that it was impossible to count illegals) as based on figures for 2001, and for refusing to count asylum seekers who have evaded deportation after their applications have been rejected and children born to illegal aliens. Predictably enough, the Blair government answered Migration Watch’s charge that there may be as many as 870,000 illegal aliens in the country with falsehoods and evasions. An unnamed spokesman for the Home Office reiterated his office’s earlier view that illegal aliens couldn’t accurately be counted, and observed sententiously: “Failed asylum seekers are not illegal immigrants. They are people who are subject to removal but have not yet been removed.” Friends and defenders of Britain and the West can only hope that the July bombings have had the effect of awakening the British people to the damage that Third World immigration (legal as well as legal) have done their country, as well as to the vastly greater damage that such immigration and its effects can bring about in the future—in which case the British will begin to regard their leaders as “people who are subject to removal but have not yet been removed.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-08-02 14:47:24 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Pride
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When Professor Andrew Fraser of Sydney’s Macquarie University arrived at his classroom yesterday, he found the door barred by security guards. The doughty law professor, who has been under siege by university authorities for a month now after criticizing Third World immigration in a letter to the editor of a local newsletter (see “Sydney Professor Braves Attacks…,” TOH, July 26, 2005), was forbidden to teach his courses on Friday after he reported hearing of a possible threat by leftist bullies to disrupt his lectures. Undeterred, Fraser conducted a public law tutorial with 14 students while sitting on a campus lawn. Vice Chancellor Di Yerbury, who had previously asked for Fraser’s resignation and retirement, condemned his remarks, denied his right to speak freely, and issued a groveling apology to various immigrant groups, justifies Macquarie University’s ban on Fraser’s right to teach classes that the university has contracted for and that students have paid to attend by the possible threat to Fraser’s safety. Deploying this sort of hypocritical solicitude in support of intimidation and censorship is known to civil libertarians as the “heckler’s veto”: the responsibility of any university worthy of the name is not to ban academic freedom it but to protect by whatever force is necessary—a fact implicitly recognized by Australia’s minister of education, Brendan Nelson, who supports Fraser’s right to speak and to teach freely. Tellingly, however, Macquarie has deployed its security guards not to defend the rights of Professor Fraser and his students, but to prevent him from teaching and them from learning. By his courage and his engagement for Australia and for freedom, Professor Andrew Fraser is living up to the values he prescribes for Britain’s (and Australia’s) monarch in his recent essay in The Occidental Quarterly (Spring 2005 / ).
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-29 12:44:55 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Concern
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San Diego County health authorities had to issue a tuberculosis warning to patrons of an Indian-owned gambling establishment, the Casino Pauma, on Monday, after it was discovered that a person with infectious tuberculosis had frequented the casino during the first part of this year. Officials have advised anyone who spent more than 120 hours at Casino Pauma between January 1 and May 7 to be tested for TB. Thanks to policy scruples about identifying public health risks, the ethnicity as well as the identity of the threat remains secret, but since over half of TB cases involve aliens (by far the majority of them from the Third World), according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the likelihood is high that San Diegans owe that threat to their leaders’ anti-America immigration policies. More ominous still, California, according to Dr. Reuben Granich of the CDCP, is home to a persistent strain of the disease that is not susceptible to treatment with drugs. Eighty-four percent of the cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in California occur among immigrants, and each case will cost the taxpayer between $200,000 and 1.2 million to cure, Granich reports. In other words, San Diego gamblers, however they fared at the slots and the tables, may count themselves lucky if they left the casino with TB in a treatable strain.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-29 12:44:55 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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A new scientific study suggests that people tend to choose their mates and their best friends based on personality traits, attitudes, and social backgrounds that are very similar to their own. In fact, psychologists J. Philippe Rushton and Trudy Ann Bons of the University of Western Ontario discovered that our husbands, wives, and best friends are generally as like to us in traits, attitudes, and backgrounds as our brothers and sisters. Their study, “Mate Choice and Friendship in Twins: Evidence for Genetic Similarity,” which appears in the July 2005 issue of Psychological Science, published by the American Psychological Society, is based on a study of several hundred pairs of identical and fraternal twins.
Rushton and Bons found that the similarities between twins and their spouses and best friends varied in line with the genetic differences between fraternal twins and identical twins: fraternal twins were likely to choose mates and best friends with traits, attitudes, and origins as close to their own as those of their twin; identical twins (who are genetically the same) chose spouses and friends who resembled one another more closely than did those of the fraternal twins. The similarities chosen for most often were for those behaviors or backgrounds with the stronger heritable component, an important support for Dr. Rushton’s commonsense theory that social preferences follow lines of genetic similarity. “If you like, become friends with, come to the aid of, and mate with those people who are genetically most similar to yourself, you are simply trying to ensure that your own segment of the gene pool will be safely maintained and eventually transmitted to future generations,” Rushton and Bons write.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-29 12:44:55 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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The government of Mexico and two American research corporations have embarked on an ambitious project to map Mexican genes in hopes of devising treatment and prevention of diseases in recognition of genetic variations resulting from the Mexicans’ unique racial composite of European genes and those of sixty indigenous peoples. The effort, which will be conducted by the Mexico’s National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Applera’s Applied Biosystems Group, and IBM’s healthcare and life sciences division, is founded on the achievements of the U.S. Human Genome Project, completed in 2003, which identified the twenty to twenty five thousand genes each human carries. Ana Kapor of Applied Biosystems, a firm experienced in DNA analysis, is frank about the project’s racial nature: “The hope is to characterize the genetic variation of the Mexican people and determine how drugs respond to them. The ultimate goal of what is called ‘race-based medicine’ is to develop new treatments for common diseases that target these genetic differences.” Speaking for Mexico, Julio Frenk, the nation’s secretary of health, noted that similar projects are already under way in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and declared, “It’s fundamental that we not arrive late at the table of history.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-29 12:44:55 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Two of the men suspected of attempting to set off murderous bottle bombs crammed with nails and bolts in the London transit system on July 21 are Africans who were admitted as refugees to Britain and benefited from the lavish subsidies the British government gives aliens. One of the bombers, Yasin Hassan Omar, from Somalia, who was arrested Wednesday in a Muslim ghetto in Birmingham, has reportedly received over $60,000 in welfare benefits in the past six years. Eritrean refugee Muktar Said Ibrahim, on the other hand, spent several years in a British prison for his role in mugging his newfound countrymen—yet despite his criminal record and his Islamic fanaticism, Ibrahim was granted British citizenship last September. Meanwhile, British, South African, and American authorities were trying to explain how Haroon Rashid Aswat, arrested last week in Zambia and thought to be the master planner of the July 7 attacks that killed nearly 60 in the British capital, repeatedly slipped through the fingers of police and intelligence agencies despite being under watch since 2002 and under surveillance in South Africa just weeks before July 7. Thanks to his British passport, Aswat was allowed to enter the United States in 1999, where he spent several years attempting to train Islamic terrorists in the Northwest. In assigning responsibility for the murder and mayhem that has been inflicted and will continue to be inflicted on Europeans and Americans by Islamist fanatics, a large factor to emerge will undoubtedly be the hubris and hypocrisy of Western governments in believing that hostile aliens can be bought off by admitting them to our societies and saturating them with largesse.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-26 12:30:07 [ Print | 1 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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The Bush White House has launched an ambitious immigration program aimed at gaining corporate favor and Hispanic votes—at the price of leaving America more open than ever before to terrorists and other unwanted entrants, above all those from the Third World. Spearheaded by a group misleadingly called Americans for Border and Economic Security, the effort, which will be run by former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie, seeks to enlist corporations such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart Stores, labor unions with heavy immigrant membership, and immigrant groups; admission to the ABES will cost the well-heeled corporate and lobbying entities from $50,000 to $250,000. So far, details of ABES’s plans for border security and for dealing with the over ten million illegal aliens in the country (at minimum estimate) are hazy. One of ABES’s leaders, former Congressman Dick Armey (R-TX), has already contemptuously dismissed efforts to safeguard America’s borders by lawmakers such as Tom Tancredo and by a growing citizen movement as the work of “the slam-the-borders crowd…To me the Tancredo wing appeals to the more prurient character of our nature.” These snide words, coming so soon after recent efforts to truckle to the NAACP on both race and immigration (see “Immigration Control Congressman Backs Extension of Babel Law,” TOH, 13 July 2005), should send the death knell to the illusion that the Republican Party acts on behalf of white Republicans. In fact, it has long served the short-sighted interests of a self-interested few whites among its members.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-26 12:30:07 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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A poll of Muslims in Britain conducted by the research company YouGov has revealed that 24 percent of those polled have some sympathy with the motives and feelings of the men who carried out the recent terror bombings in London, while 6 percent—which would translate to some 100,000 British Muslims—believe that the bombings, which killed over fifty, were justified. Seven percent think that terrorists from their neighborhood could be planning an attack similar to that of July 7. While 46 percent of the over five hundred Muslims polled describe themselves as “very loyal” to Britain, they judge that only 28 of Muslims resident in Britain were very loyal to the country. The disturbing YouGov poll, coupled with an alarming list compiled by the British National Party of over two hundred Islamic organizations currently operating in Britain, suggests an urgent question: Why is it that it was the head of the BNP, Nick Griffin, who was brought to trial last week for speaking frankly if heatedly last year about the Islamic threat to Britain—and not those who applaud, abet, and tolerate that threat and its fruition?
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-26 12:30:07 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Concern
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Several torturers who were active during the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein have been allowed by the Norwegian government to reside freely in Norway, according to the Norwegian state broadcasting company NRK. Although Norway is a member of President Bush’s “coalition of the willing” in Iraq, Norwegian immigration authorities cite international agreements on refugees to justify granting at least temporary asylum to the self-admitted torturers: even torturers must be permitted refuge if they face torture or the death penalty if returned to their country of origin. Norway’s policy of granting asylum to torturers from a regime that they have been at war with is only slightly more absurd than the general Western policy of granting asylum to millions of denizens of the Third World whose only criterion for admission is mistreatment that they have allegedly suffered, without reference to mistreatment they have inflicted on their racial, ethnic, and religious rivals. Current asylum policies have helped infest Europe, North America, and Australia with enclaves of immigrants hostile to each other but above all to the West, as demonstrated recently in London. The policies need to be scrapped and, if necessary, the treaties junked.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-26 12:30:07 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Action
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Andrew Fraser, an Australian professor of law who has challenged his country’s immigration policies as harmful to Australia’s “distinctive national identity,” is under attack by authorities at Sydney’s Macquarie University, where Fraser has taught for nearly thirty years. Professor Fraser’s specific offense was to answer a June 29 story in the local Parramatta Sun celebrating the naturalization of a Sudanese family with a letter in which he pointed out that the government’s immigration policy was dispossessing Australia’s founding European population by importing low IQ, socially disruptive blacks from Africa, while at the same time allowing in numerous Asians intelligent and industrious enough to compete with white Australians. Now Macquarie University has asked Professor Fraser to retire a year early; vice-chancellor Di Yerbury, who met yesterday with the African Community Council and the Sudanese “community” to issue a groveling apology for the professor’s views, claims that the effort to oust Fraser is in no way connected with those views. Professor Fraser, whose article “Monarchs and Miracles” appears in the Spring 2005 issue of The Occidental Quarterly, has refused to retract his words or to be intimidated by a campaign of opprobrium waged by media and various “civil rights” groups, offering a stellar contemporary example of fidelity to the Western traditions of civil courage as well as freedom of thought and expression.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-23 13:38:58 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Normally plans to build a big Pentecostal church in a north Texas hamlet like Floyd—population one hundred, most of them whites—wouldn’t worry residents, but the Redeemed Christian Church of God is different. Founded in Nigeria in 1952, it has an overwhelmingly African leadership and congregation, and the gyrations of its “slain-in-the-spirit, dancing-in-the-aisles, shouting-halleluiah-at-the-top-of-your-lungs style of worship” make white Pentecostalists seem like Presbyterians. Thus the prospect of a 10,000-seat sanctuary, a Christian theme park, a dormitory, and “several” cottages on 500 acres of land the RCCG has bought up has the townspeople of Floyd apprehensive. Pastor Ajibike Akinkoye has few concerns about his church moving in to Floyd, however: a tent meeting with Hunt County commissioners sufficed to dispel all their misgivings. “Whether you’re black or white, money has only one color, green,” the Nigerian chortles. The RCCG has a worldwide membership of as many as five million, and, while it appeals primarily to Nigerians and other blacks, it aggressively proselytizes among whites (one of its slogans is “Missionaries to a dead Europe”). Longtime Floyd resident Luanne Moody expressed reservations typical of white Americans in similar situations: “I don’t like to be called a racist, but I don’t like to be overrun, either”—and so it looks as if her only option is “white flight.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-23 13:38:58 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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San Bernardino’s school district, which serves a city that declared itself bilingual in 2002, may be getting ready to incorporate another dialect into its instructional program: the district is adding books in Ebonics to its supplemental reading program for the school year 2005–6. Len Cooper, who is coordinating a larger pilot program tailored to blacks in the San Bernardino City Unified School District, was quick to assure that students would not be taught in Ebonics, admittedly “because Ebonics can have a negative stigma.” Still, Mary Texeira, a sociology professor at California State University at San Bernardino, hailed the innovation, and urged that blacks be taught in the dialect, which some scholars believe reflects aspects of ancestral African tongues, just as Hispanic students continue to be taught in Spanish (largely in violation of California law). Representatives of other minorities in the Balkanized school district are already eyeing the special program for blacks as a precedent for additional ethnic spoils for their own groups. The impetus for offering reading materials in Ebonics—the woeful performance of San Bernardino blacks on state-mandated tests, in which they trail all other groups, including Hispanic children, in reading English—would seem to argue against neglecting English-language books for their allegedly Afrocentric counterparts.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-23 13:38:58 [ Print | 1 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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In the wake of the murderous London attacks carried out by Islamic fanatics who grew up in England, German interior minister Otto Schily reminds that similar, though less lethal attacks, were carried out in the Paris Metro by “French” Muslim immigrants from northern Africa in the 1990s, and that the killers of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh were “Dutch” Muslims who had been raised in the Netherlands. Schily further notes that among the attackers have been Muslims from prosperous families that were evidently well integrated into European society, and warns of the increasing radicalization of Turks long resident in his own country. The failure of attempts to assimilate these immigrants from Africa and Asia and their families into European society inspired Czech Republic president Vaclav Klaus last week to condemn Europe’s multiculturalism and excessive openness to immigrants from alien cultural environments. According to Klaus, “Multiculturalism is an ideology that says that you should emigrate and to make claim to your civilisation, your group and ethnic interests [in the new countries]. Mass emigration has emerged as a false ideology according to which there exists a kind of claim, a general human right to wander anywhere around the world.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-23 13:38:57 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Indian actress Aishwarya Rai has been chosen as the Next Step World Diversity Champion, an award bestowed by the British government to “honour individuals who have encouraged pride in being a member of ethnic minority community as well as shown a strong sense of personal fulfilment.” Ms. Rai, who hopes the award will stop people from holding her looks against her and labeling her “giggly and frivolous,” evidently owes her new title to her role as a battered Punjabi housewife in an Indian film and to her adoption of an Ethiopian orphan, Zahara Marley. It is expected that former U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell and martial arts idol Jackie Chan will be on hand when the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office confers the award on Rai next November 24. With all due regard to the Indian actress and those who voted her the diversity prize (reportedly the House of Commons), and in grim remembrance to the victims of the July 7 London terror bombings, one Germaine Lindsay might make a better candidate. Lindsay was evidently no less proud of his membership in not one but two minority communities—Afro-Caribbean and Muslim—and had certainly as strong a sense of personal fulfillment as does Ms. Rai. It is a measure of the frivolity of the British government’s diversity award that Lindsay, suspected of being one of four suicide bombers of July 7, could formally qualify for the prize, which at best promotes only the dissolution of the British nation.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-13 14:20:41 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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A murderous feud between two gangs of mulatto immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands, off the west coast of Africa, has Boston police afraid that the violence could spread to other cities in Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England. The fighting has resulted in one fatal shooting, four gunshot wounds, and half a dozen other reported instances in which shots were fired in Boston’s Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods since June 23. Bishop Filip Teixeira, a leader of the Cape Verdean community, last week called the spiral of gang retaliations the fault of Boston authorities for failing to punish earlier offenses, while CVI prime minister Jose Maria Neves, visiting in Boston, lamented, “For us, the problem of violence leads to deportation, and deportation has created a new and additional problem for the government of Cape Verde in Cape Verde.” In fact, over 200 Cape Verdeans were deported from the U.S. for serious crimes between 199 and 2003. Unmentioned in a hand-holding session at a Boston church that included Teixeira, Neves, and Boston Thomas Menino was the damage that virtually unrestricted immigration from the Cape Verde Islands is doing ordinary Americans. The influx from the Cape Verde Islands, which ground to a halt following 1924 legislation that largely restricted immigration to America’s dominant European stocks, has skyrocketed since 1965, when Congress opened this country to massive numbers of nonwhites.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-13 14:20:41 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has raised eyebrows by promising prompt legislation to extend the Voting Rights Act, in an address to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s conference in Milwaukee. The support of Sensenbrenner, a heartland conservative who has steadfastly opposed President George Bush’s efforts to grant yet another federal amnesty, this time to over ten million illegal aliens, for renewing a punitive and obsolete law whereby the federal government continues to supervise virtually every aspect of elections in several Southern states, might be explicable as part of a current Republican push to truckle for black support (Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman has aggressively led these efforts). Recent complaints from Milwaukee’s African-American leaders that black violence—not segregation or abuse of black voting rights—is destroying their community seem to have been lost on Sensenbrenner, although his Wisconsin district reaches into the near suburbs of the city. Even more problematic, however, is another provision of the VRA, which requires election districts with over five percent of speakers of foreign languages to provide ballots and instructions in those languages. If Congressman Sensenbrenner is serious about immigration control, he will make it the business of his committee to strip the Voting Rights Act of its foreign language provisions, which offer an unsurpassed symbolic and substantive offense to American civic values.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-13 14:20:41 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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The recent population boom in rapidly urbanizing Cobb County, Georgia, not so long ago a rural outlier of Atlanta, is to an alarming extent being driven by immigrant births, most of them to Third World couples. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, DC–based think tank, in 2002 31 percent of births in Cobb County were to immigrants, contrasting with 8 percent of immigrant births in 2002. CIS research director Steven Camarota calls the jump “an incredible statistic,” but it is all too believable in view of the CIS’s figures for immigrant births nationally (23 percent); that births to immigrants in a state like Georgia rank as high as thirteenth nationally is no longer an anomaly, either: newcomers from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America are flocking to the South, where they are exacerbating racial problems long confined to white-black relations. The percentage of births to immigrants (45 percent of them Mexicans) in 2002 was the highest in American history, according to the CIS; current U.S. legal practice makes such children American citizens on birth.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-13 14:20:40 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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One in three ten-year-olds in South Africa are having sex, and 17 percent of them will choose to spread the AIDS virus if they contract it, according to Community Information, Empowerment and Transparency (CIET Africa), an international organization devoted to community development. The CIET study revealed that by 18 two of every three South African children have had sexual relations. More disturbingly, the report disclosed a series of attitudes in SA youth that are exacerbating the country’s severe problems with sexuality. Three in ten young South Africans believe that girls like sexually violent boys, while 10 percent believe that girls who have been raped have “asked for”—attitudes perhaps helping to account for the ten percent of South African girls who say that have been raped, and feeding what has been described as South Africa’s rape crisis (see “SA President Mbeki Cries “Race!”to SA’s Rape Crisis,” TOH, Oct. 22, 2004). The CIET reports that SA teenagers’ sexual information is riddled with factual misinformation, abetted by African superstitions (the idea that deflowering a virgin will cure AIDS, for instance) or by government failure to inform them (20 percent of SA youth believe that condoms offer no protection against sexually transmitted disease). South Africa, thanks to the long and still comparatively numerous white presence, is of course one of black Africa’s most advanced countries: whether the planned big increases in aid to Africa from Western countries (nearly all of it ultimately originating from the pockets of ordinary white people) can rein in adolescent sexual excesses there and elsewhere is problematic. No less unsettling is the thought that Western aid, in the form of medicine and nutrition, has fueled both the rising birth rate and the earlier onset of sexual maturity among black Africans.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-08 17:07:02 [ Print | 1 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, which has become synonymous with blue-collar white male support for George Bush, is hastening to become more “diverse” by recruiting more minority participants. The push to acquire more nonwhite fans (and more corporate sponsors) includes suppressing the Confederate battle flag “in any area that NASCAR controls, whether it is in the garage area, on our cars, on the uniforms, anywhere that we control, including our licensed products,” according to Tish Sheets, NASCAR’s director of diversity. While the association has not yet banned the bearing or wearing of the Rebel colors by fans in attendance, that would seem to be only a matter of time, thanks to a group called Drive for Diversity, which, with the enthusiastic support of NASCAR, is promoting racing teams that include African-Americans, Latinos, and other nonwhites as drivers and crew members. Corporate and government sponsors of Drive for Diversity teams include Goodyear, Kodak, Miller Brewing, Domino’s Pizza, Sunoco, and the National Guard. The artificially induced “diversity” and the ban on the banner that more than any other symbol expressed the devil-may-care spirit of the rum runners who pioneered stock car racing reach beyond the racial insults in betokening a more general domestication of America’s Southern white manhood, in which the sporting of the ubiquitous corporate logos proclaims a self-submission to a control at once deracinated and ironclad.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-08 17:07:01 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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When Honduran police stormed the slums of Tegucigalpa, the capital, in search of members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha-13 and other vicious gangs on Thursday, police from Indianapolis were looking on. Observing the raids, which came after two undercover narcotics officers were murdered and their eyes gouged out, was more than just an exercise in international liaison, for MS-13, thanks to the U.S. government’s refusal to enforce its own immigration laws (see “Latino Gangs Flee Central America for Safety of U.S.,” TOH, Sept. 28, 2004), is deeply embedded in Indianapolis. According to police, its members’ compulsive violence, which has included mutilation with machetes and gang rape as well as gunshots, has lately begun to spill over from gang fights in the barrios to attacks on the general public. MS-13 and other Latino gangs in Indianapolis are so far merely imitators of the real thing in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and the Washington, DC area, say Indianapolis police. In the larger cities tens of thousands of gang members, most of whom originate in Central America (including hardened criminals in their thirties and forties), are threatening to create conditions that rival those in their homelands of Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, where police are on a war footing against the gangs, which carry out frequent outrages against the civilian population, including a massacre of 28 persons on a Honduran bus last Christmas. The growing strength of MS-13, as well as of youth gangs (recently estimated as 80 percent nonwhite in their membership) in general, in Indianapolis and across America, is just one more powerful argument against the national establishment’s infatuation with multiracialism and multiculturalism.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-08 17:07:01 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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A recent spate of news on “hate crimes” serves to expose the rickety underpinnings of ideology and method that have created a category of offense that derives most of its impact from the perceived mindset of the perpetrator and the group membership—or affinities—of the victim. Thus, in Canada, the chief of an Indian tribe has been convicted of hate for insulting Jews in a speech to a confederation of Indian tribes three years ago, while in Blacksburg, Virginia, the discovery of a burned copy of the Koran at a local mosque led to a frenzied police for the suspected hate criminal until a Muslim student revealed that he had merely been trying to dispose of the accidentally damaged scripture. Motive counts, as in any crime; but the most important motive to consider in evaluating hate crimes is the motive of minority interests in pushing through hate crimes legislation: in jurisdiction after jurisdiction, from the U.S. federal government on down, the game has been to make the supposed prejudices of the white, Christian, heterosexual majority, rather than the resentments of various racial and social minorities, the yardstick not merely for evaluating hate crimes but often enough for establishing their commission in the first place. Thus murderous attacks on whites, as recently in White Plains, New York or Seattle, accompanied by clear evidence of racial hatred by their minority perpetrators (in both cases African-American), tend not to be prosecuted as hate crimes, and (quite as significantly) attract none of the press hysteria that lesser attacks, but ones accompanied by alleged antiminority motives by whites (such as the recent attack that left one of three black car thieves injured in Howard Beach, Queens, New York). Punishments based on alleged motivation rather than the infliction of measurable individual injury, the existence of institutionalized antiwhite bias that produces official and media feeding frenzies when minorities are victimized, and the consequent fostering of the faking of numerous hate crimes (see “Hate Hoaxing Professor Flunks…,” TOH, March 19, 2004), offer several of many good reasons for doing away with hate crimes in criminal law.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-08 17:07:00 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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One of the four bombs detonated in London yesterday exploded near a Muslim enclave along Edgware Road, a neighborhood whose halal restaurants, Arabic advertising, and chador-clad women bring to mind Cairo or Damascus more than one of the West’s great capitals. Whether one or more of the bombings that claimed over fifty lives was carried out by a resident of Edgware Road or one of the other more than 2 million Muslims living in Britain, the abundance of unassimilated and unassimilable alien adherents of a creed that is hostile to the West and its values would present the British with a problem that would be acute even without the current war between the U.S., Israel, and their allies and a considerable portion of the Islamic world. That there is such a struggle, however misguided and mismanaged by the U.S., means that the large Islamic concentrations in London and in other British cities—like similar Muslim enclaves in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and elsewhere in Europe—afford al-Qaida and like forces the opportunity to recruit, plot, and hide among active helpers as well as passive sympathizers filled with contempt for the infidel Europeans who surround them. So far Britain has produced at least half a dozen participants in jihadist attacks; as analyst Peter Bergen points out, most of Britain’s Muslims—including those al-Qaida sympathizers who jokingly call their home town “Londonistan”—are currently eligible to enter the United States with only a valid British passport. Despite—or because of—the country’s large and vociferous minority, British officials have been counseling tolerance, at the inevitable expense of vigilance, of the potential Islamic fifth column. Revealingly, the efforts at vindication by British National Party chief Nick Griffin, who still faces charges of inciting racial hatred for warning against his country’s Muslim threat, have been greeted with snarls from Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, and other commissars of diversity at all costs, including the security of Britain’s native English, Scottish, and Welsh populations.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-05 19:45:18 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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A recent study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (May 2005) defies longstanding social dogma to suggest that “prejudice,” or an aversion to members of different groups, is genetically based and arose to enable both group and individual survival. Arizona St. University Professor Steven Neuberg and ASU graduate student Catherine Cottrell, in “Different Emotional Reactions to Different Groups: A Sociofunctional Threat-Based Approach to ‘Prejudice,’” describe their study of assessments by 235 European-American students at ASU of possible societal threats posed by nine different groups—activist feminists, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, European-Americans, fundamentalist Christians, gay men, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, and nonfundamentalist Christians—and the emotions registered by the students at perceived threats associated with the different groups. Rather than undifferentiated hostility to the “other,” Neuberg and Cottrell found that different types of threat—physical, ideological, or health—evoked different emotions (fear, anger, disgust). Neuberg interprets these nuances as rooted in real threats that led to an evolutionary response: “It was adaptive for our ancestors to be attuned to those outside the group who posed threats such as to physical security, health or economic resources, and to respond to these different kinds of threats in ways tailored to have a good chance of reducing them.” Whether Neuberg and Cottrell’s findings will help to root out the calcified prejudices of such citadels of professed anti-prejudice as the Anti-Defamation League, which continues to proclaim that “Hate is learned,” remains to be seen.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-05 19:45:17 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Action
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The interior ministers of Europe’s five biggest national economies—Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Spain, known as the “Group of Five”—met at Evian in France yesterday to discuss ways of tightening up procedures against unwanted immigrants. The ministers agreed to an array of tough-sounding measures, including joint naval operations in the Mediterranean to intercept illegal aliens from Africa; joint measures to apprehend and to expel illegals; and better identification documents. The promised action sounds impressive, but as press reports made clear, France’s interior minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, has his eye on a presidential candidacy in 2007, while Germany’s Social Democratic government is poised for a new national election in the coming months. As the Financial Times observes, the five interior ministers “believe their citizens want a more robust European approach to the problem”—which means no more than that the ministers will be looking for ways to placate their citizenries on immigration, not necessarily that they will effectively defy corporate interests and diversity lobbies in their countries to restrict excess immigration, including the out-of-control flow of internationally sanctioned asylum seekers from scores of Third World countries. Taking the next step, from a general aversion to Third World immigration to an effective opposition to actual immigration policies, will largely depend on the quality and energy of the nationalist opposition in each of the G5 nations.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-05 19:45:17 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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A sober report in the most recent issue of Der Spiegel offers a clear-headed corrective to the rants of Madonna, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and the other multimillionaire rockers who demanded more Western aid for Africa over the weekend. “Too Much of a Good Thing: Choking on Aid Money in Africa” details how ill-coordinated aid from the developed countries too often goes to the wrong people—not merely the “kleptocratic” regimes which rule most sub-Saharan states, but populations that have caught the eye of Western journalists, missionaries, or aid workers, and, like the 500 South Sudanese in the tent city of Rambak who received half a million dollars from Norway, suddenly find themselves drowning in Western largesse. The report does not mince words on sub-Saharan Africa’s grim circumstances since “liberation” from European colonial rule: 300 million living on less than a dollar a day; two thirds of the world’s poorest countries; 34 of the 35 nations with the lowest life expectancy; one percent of the world’s wealth is created there (and most of that not cultivated or manufactured, but extracted from the earth in the form of oil, gas, gold, and diamonds). The liberal German weekly, noting that over three decades worth of aid to Africa has left little more than debt, muses, “The suspicion is hard to avoid that aid, sometimes, paralyzes.” While avoiding the question of how much of black Africa’s inefficiency is due to inborn factors, the report in Der Spiegel concludes sternly: “Basically it is always the same reasons why development aid in Africa tends to disappear down a black hole: incompetent planning of the donor nations, which means that aid is always distributed according to the wrong priorities, as well as a combination of corruption, selfishness, greed and arbitrary use of government power in the recipient countries themselves.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-02 16:05:58 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Readers of the Washington Post could be pardoned for feeling a bit whipsawed in recent weeks: on June 24, 2005 the Post reported the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of BiDil for treatment of heart failure in black patients in an article laced with caveats and quibbles from savants fearful that the racial specificity of the medication might suggest biological differences between races (see “Race Deniers to African-Americans: “Drop Dead!,” TOH, Sept. 7, 2004). Two days later, a Post report was decrying the fact that trials for drugs to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and other mental ills failed to include significant numbers of minorities. The seeming contradiction—why bother about including members of different races in trials if everyone’s the same?—resolved itself, at least formally: reporter Shankar Vedantam was following journalism school rote by advancing the arguments of mental health advocates who see psychiatric disorders as primarily environmental in origin, with a heavy “cultural” (not hereditary) component. If anything, Vedantam’s series offers strong arguments against immigration and “diversity”: Third Worlders with schizophrenia recover more quickly in their own cultures than in America; Mexicans born in the U.S. are twice as likely to suffer depression and anxiety as those born in their own country; etc. While many readers will agree with Vedantam’s view that Nigerian schizophrenics would be better off in Nigeria than here (though not for Vedantam’s reasons), the practical effect of his recommendations would be to saddle U.S. psychiatric medicine with a myriad of ethnospecific “healers” —a diversity salad on top of the melting pot stew. While the Post remains trapped in the biological certitudes of the 1960s, its upstart competitor the Examiner has just shown how a big city newspaper should react to scientific progress by running an editorial that welcomed the recognition of genetic differences between the races “as a step forward for the field of medicine, not a step backward for social relations.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-02 16:05:57 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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To the consternation of its performers and critics, the audience for political hip-hop—black pop music with lyrics that extol black pride, political resistance, and opposition to the military-industrial complex—is overwhelmingly white these days. According to the Village Voice, African-American performers dedicated to building black consciousness with radical hip-hop are regularly confronted with crowds that are 80 or 90 percent white. Boots Riley of the Coup complains, “My audience has gone from being over 95 percent Black 10 years ago to over 95 percent white today,” figures corroborated by an informal survey of fans, promoters, and MCs. There’s little disagreement on why blacks have defected from the politically conscious version of the music: the lure of gangster rap has proved too strong, or, as political hip-hopper Zion puts it, “So many Black people don’t want to hear it. They want that thug shit.” While white fans of black power pop earn praise from African-American observers for their search for “authenticity” and “urgency” in black issues and for their wide knowledge of the genre, whites’ motives and sensibilities in admiring political hip-hop have come under suspicion. According to the Voice article, “More and more [white fans] insist without pause that their favorite white underground MCs are smarter and hence better. ‘One of the hardest things we’re dealing with now is the underlying feeling of white supremacy among fans who feel they are a part of hip-hop, but are listening to and prefer mostly white MCs,’ says [hip-hopper] Brother Ali…‘This isn’t an underground-versus-mainstream thing—it’s a racist thing.’” That sounds like material for a new hip-hop song; but, whether or not white fans will mouth those lyrics as obediently as they do the others, the lamentations of black political hip-hoppers are strong evidence that the differences between the races can and do overcome the most conscientious efforts to deny them.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-02 16:05:57 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Two recent controversies between Mexicans and African-Americans—or better, attempts to stage manage those controversies—offer valuable insight into the workings of the minority combine against white Americans. A few weeks ago Mexican president Vicente Fox remarked off-handedly, “There’s no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, will power and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.” Fox’s gaffe prompted a quick intervention from U.S. black leaders, led by former presidential candidate the Reverend Al Sharpton. Sharpton chose to ignore the larger issue underlying Fox’s comments—that the Mexican immigrants flooding into America are competing with blacks for entry-level jobs—to focus on the implied insult to blacks’ refined work place sensibilities. Sharpton went on to offer his support for Fox’s efforts at getting an amnesty that would grant millions of Mexican illegal aliens legal residency in the U.S., and to proclaim, “I think that Mexicans and African-Americans and Latino-Americans need to be on the same side in everything.” That ambitious asseveration was tested last week when the Mexican government issued a series of five stamps devoted to a popular cartoon character called Memin Pinguin, whose appearance black journalist and Latin America hand Eugene Robinson summed up as “big lips, big ears, and the distinctly chimp-like cranium of a young Sambo.” Not only did Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and other African-American leaders rush to call the stamps’ withdrawal, but Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, a Mexican-American racial-nationalist group, chimed in with them: “Hispanic Americans…will and should be equally outraged.” What price a compromise that helps paper over the seething tensions between U.S. blacks and Chicanos if it enables further inroads against the dwindling white majority?
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-07-02 16:05:57 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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A belated government estimate of the number of illegal aliens in Britain (as many as 570,000) and a prominent think tank’s evaluation of British attitudes toward asylum seekers (“hostility” often “based on wildly accurate beliefs”) bring new evidence of the UK establishment’s dishonesty and contempt for the British people. For years the Home Office and the glib prevaricator who is Britain’s prime minister, Tony Blair, had claimed that providing an estimate of how many illegal aliens reside in Britain was impossible; yet figures just provided by Immigration Minister Tony McNulty (somewhere between 310,000 and 570,000) resulted from a very simple statistical analysis, and far more accurate numbers could clearly be arrived at if the government and its allies among the immigrant minorities, the media, the academy, and the nonprofits would tolerate a hardnosed immigration policy that kept track of failed asylum seekers and other alien interlopers. Instead, the establishment sees its task as monitoring the English, Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish, as demonstrated by the Institute for Public Policy Research’s report Asylum: Understanding Public Attitudes, which pathologizes the concerns of Britons over the effects of the Third World influx on their jobs, neighborhoods, and quality of life as “racist” and (ignoring the effects of establishment evasions and lies on immigration) “ignorant,” at base denying the British any right to pronounce on their country’s immigration policy. Still, the shoe of imposed immigration and full-throttle “asylum seeking” (whereby Third Worlders who can cobble together a serviceable story of having been aggrieved by the numerous ethnic and religious feuds in their homelands can claim a new homeland in Britain) is evidently beginning to pinch too tight: now, even Immigration Minister Tony McNulty has been forced to admit that his predecessors have been hiding the facts, and that there needs to be a debate on immigration.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-28 15:29:43 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Action
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In raids across three states that revealed big holes in enforcement of the laws that regulate commercial drivers, last week agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested two dozen illegal aliens who were unlawfully licensed to transport hazardous materials. One arrestee, Mansoor Hassan, is an illegal alien from Pakistan who was ordered to leave the country by a judge in 1996, but allowed to do so voluntarily: Hassan spent the next nine years driving fuel trucks for Exxon and other gas companies. The raids, which took place in Maryland, Illinois, and Missouri, follow earlier ICE raids in Maryland, Florida, and Michigan, which nabbed another hundred persons involved in applying for and procuring licenses with endorsements for hazardous materials. ICE also revealed that arrests in April of commercial driver’s license violators in Florida, including three Florida St. Department of Motor Vehicles examiners, broke up a ring that had supplied over 2,000 illegal aliens with licenses enabling to drive trucks transporting fuel, chemicals, explosives, nuclear waste, and other hazardous materials. It’s good to see the Department of Homeland Security (which Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a part of) enforcing an area of immigration law that bears directly on Americans’ safety; just how many more potentially hostile aliens are out there armed and licensed to perpetrate the sort of horrors occur every day in Iraq is a thought that ought to underline the importance of immigration control for every American.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-28 15:29:43 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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African immigrants to Britain are smuggling in children for human sacrifice and sexual abuse, according to a secret study by London’s Metropolitan Police that was leaked to the BBC in mid-June. BBC reporter Angus Stickler, who obtained the report, characterized it as “absolutely chilling.” Stickler reveals that “The most gruesome details come from the African communities,” which import uncircumcised boys from sub-Saharan countries due to the belief that they make the most efficacious sacrificial victims. Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of the police report, which is to be released before the end of this month, is the revelation from police informants that most of the sacrifices and the witchcraft that surrounds them are reported to have taken place in ostensibly Christian churches maintained by African congregations in London (as students of African religions are well aware, most black African “Christian” churches foster beliefs and practice rituals that contain large amounts of “traditional” African worship). The police report is based on investigations by social workers, immigration lawyers, and human rights workers as well as the police, and was prompted by several widely reported cases of torture and murder involving believe in witches (see “A Witch for Drowning in Hackney,” TOH, May 13, 2005). Among its other findings is that a parallel stream of smuggled children is being brought to London so that African and Asian men with AIDS may have sex with them, in the widespread belief that copulating with an underage virgin is a sure cure for the virus. So far, the London Metropolitan Police force, which has lately expended much energy in punishing alleged “racism” in its ranks (see “Bobbies Cowed in Brave New [Multiracial] Britain,” TOH, June 21, 2005), has no idea of how many youthful black immigrants may have been butchered or infected with AIDS in London, but the London force earlier reported that some 300 black children are missing from school.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-28 15:29:42 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Action
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The watchful and vigorous British immigration restriction group Migrationwatch UK has blown the whistle on a scam by the Scottish Executive that would allow non-European Union graduates (most of them from the Third World) to take jobs in Scotland after graduating there for two years without having to obtain a work permit. First Minister Jack McConnell’s immigration ploy, euphemistically dubbed “Fresh Talent,” was instituted last year allegedly to address a demographic shortfall among the Scots, but Migrationwatch UK chairman Andrew Green points out that the Scottish Executive has underestimated immigration to the country. Thus the several thousand non-Scots, non-British, and (mostly) non-Europeans who would be enabled to stay and work in Scotland would exacerbate the immigration problem and would also pose a threat to travel south to England. Confronted with Green’s hardheaded reaction to its efforts to evade immigration controls, a spokeswoman for the prodigal Scottish Executive blurted out her superiors’ true intentions: “We are working closely with the [British] Home Office to refine and develop initiatives to attract and support new Scots”; an official of the Home Office, which also carries out a sieve-like immigration policy whenever it is able, claimed that the “Fresh Talent” program was being “carefully monitored.” Any monitoring of this latest scheme to pass over Scottish graduates, among the most capable in the world, for Scottish jobs in favor of Third World “new Scots” is thanks to Migrationwatch UK and its chairman Andrew Green. May their vigilance alert and invigorate their fellow Britons.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-28 15:29:42 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Britain is being flooded with hundreds of Bangladeshis who enter armed with work permits for curry houses and other restaurants, are soon “fired” by prearrangement with their sponsors, and then remain in the country as illegal aliens. According to an exposé in the Telegraph the immigrants pay up to £8,000 to immigrate; they are replaced in their restaurant jobs after an average of five months, so the turnaround makes handsome profits for the smugglers, who are often closely connected to the interests that own the restaurants. The Telegraph’s report finds that both the British government’s one year and five year visa programs for skilled workers are riddled with fraud. One Bangladeshi restaurateur, Azmal Hussain, claims to know nearly 200 Bangladeshis who have been fired from restaurant jobs. His efforts to report them, first to the police, then to immigration authorities, have been in vain, he says. “I called immigration but I couldn’t get through to anybody. They don’t seem interested.” As for the police, even if they were empowered to track down immigration frauds, their hands are doubtless too full anyway with “racist” bobbies and African witch doctors.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-24 16:06:18 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Concern
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State school systems across the country are falsifying their records to simulate higher graduation rates for high school students, according to the Education Trust, a nonprofit devoted to raising standards in K-12 education. The ET’s report Getting Honest about Grad Rates: How States Play the Numbers and Students Lose reveals large disparities between graduation rates claimed by numerous states and the dismal reality. Thus North Carolina earlier this year reported that 97 percent of its highschoolers had graduated in 2002-3, while objective statistics obtained by the ET reveal that only 64 percent had graduated in 2000-1 (the nonwhite dropout rate for that year was 50 percent). The 33-point gap in the pretty figures announced by Tarheel State educators and the ugly reality differed only in degree from similar reporting disparities in other states: the Education Trust found at least a 10 percent gap between reported and actual graduations in thirty states, with disparities of over 20 percent in heavily minority New Mexico, South Carolina, and Mississippi. The exertions of state and local educators to disguise dropout rates and to doctor test scores in numerous creative ways (a number of them revealed in the accompanying ET report) stem directly from the premises of the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind Act, which punishes schools for failing to report progress by nonwhite students, even where young white scholars are performing ably (see “[Yet Another] Massive Push to Equalize School Achievement,” TOH, May 27, 2005). Among the costs of focusing on the least capable students at the expense of the able and the gifted, according to the ET: “stagnant achievement in the secondary grades, declining academic standing among other industrialized nations, and, most important, reports from college instructors, employers, and young people themselves that high schools are not preparing students for the expectations they’ll face when they finish.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-24 16:06:18 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Action
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In matters of immigration control, as in so much else, the best defense is a good offense, as Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo proved earlier this week. After several employees of the Denver Public Library got wind of schemes aimed at turning several of the library’s branches into Spanish-language centers in which “out of date” English-language books would be trashed to make way for libros en Español and heard rumors of future preferment for bilingual librarians (at the expense of those who speak only English), Tancredo addressed a letter based on the librarians’ complaints to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. The Republican congressman wanted to know if the rumors were true, and also whether it was a fact that Mexican driver’s licenses were accepted as identification in Denver public libraries; whether illegal aliens are getting help in buying homes in the form of free workshops in the libraries run by the (taxpayer-supported) Colorado Housing Assistance Corporation, among other questions. Needless to say, Mayor Hickenlooper scurried to assure Tancredo that his concerns were utterly unfounded. "It is unfortunate that your sources, in whom you must have put much faith, conveyed to you such false and erroneous information," Hickenlooper piously observed. One may be confident, however, that Tancredo’s thrust derailed or delayed half a dozen plans for further denaturing Denver’s public libraries from quiet centers of reading and learning to day care facilities for illegal aliens’ children, clubhouses for day laborers, and centers for immigrant agitators for New Aztlan.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-24 16:06:18 [ Print | 1 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Brazil, and in particular Rio de Janeiro, is often depicted as a subtropical paradise, but its teeming, violent, multiracial favelas (slums) are among the worst in the Western Hemisphere. So pervasive is crime there, often committed by gangs that battle one another in the streets, that state legislators have recently voted to build 7-foot-high walls that would shield motorists on roads through or alongside some of the worst favelas. Other lawmakers want even higher fences to guard against incidents such as the gun battle last weekend between two gangs in Vidigal that forced police to close roads uncomfortably near the world-famous Ipanema beach, or last month’s fire fight between police and drug traffickers in Mare, during which terrified motorists abandoned their cars to flee on foot. Deputy state governor Luiz Paul Conde has called for surrounding the slums with 10-foot-high fences, but his efforts have been so far been vetoed by Rio state governor Rosinha Matheus, who believes that such barriers would be discriminatory. In essence the division reflects a split between Brazil’s European-derived middle and upper classes and its generally black or mixed-race lower class, the interests of which are currently represented by the nation’s populist (and mixed-race) president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. The criminal anarchy that reigns in the favelas is so vexing (see “Amnesty International Shaken by Afro-Brazilian Slum Wars,” TOH, Oct. 8, 2004), however, that more and higher fences seem inevitable.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-21 17:32:13 [ Print | 1 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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An largely unheralded project that seeks to map genetic variations between the major races threatens to overturn once and for all attempts by egalitarians, whether scientists or lay persons, to deny or to minimize racial differences. The International Haplotype Project, which has enlisted the support of geneticists from half a dozen different countries and has received $185 million in funding, has spent the past four years charting the genomes of 270 people from Asia, Africa, the United States, and Europe in search of the genetic basis for such things as East Africans’ dominance of long-distance running, Ashkenazi Jews’ high intelligence levels, and the like. The growing evidence for the importance of the .1 percent of genetic differences between humans has such scientific celebrators of the Human Genome’s allegedly egalitarian findings as Dr. Francis Collins admitting “It is not strictly true that race or ethnicity has no biological connection. It must be emphasized, however, that the connection is generally quite blurry.” The results of the Haplotype Project promise to disperse a good deal of that blurriness—and to indicate how much of it has been due to sort of “racial correctness” that has made discussing group genetic differences taboo, especially in America, where, as recently as this year, Henry Harpending and his fellow researchers were unable to publish a pathbreaking study of the role of inheritance in high intellect among Eastern European Jews (“New Evidence on the Genetic Roots of Jewish Genius,” TOH, June 7, 2005).
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-21 17:32:13 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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London’s Metropolitan Police force, once the wonder of the world for its politeness and professionalism, is today unraveling under the onslaught of lawlessness from without and a slavish deference to minorities from within. According to the respected Telegraph, a complaint by a white woman who alleges that she was drugged, then raped by a nonwhite who now serves as a police officer was dismissed after a perfunctory investigation. The Telegraph reports that the inquiry, which failed to interview the alleged rapist, was personally orchestrated by Sir Ian Blair, at that time a deputy commissioner but presently, as commissioner, the commander of the MP. The newspaper’s sources within the Metropolitan Police report that, meanwhile, Commissioner Blair has been striving to punish four white officers who have already been cleared of accusations that they are “racists.” As the Telegraph notes, “[t]he latest unprecedented revelation…demonstrates the extraordinary lengths to which the Metropolitan Police is prepared to go to accommodate officers from ethnic minorities.” On the same that the news of Britain’s premiere police chief’s hunt for innocent white officers and protection of a possibly guilty nonwhite bobby was broken, the British media reported another extraordinary development: British troops are being ordered into the streets of over two hundred British towns this summer to help combat a wave of drunken lawlessness that the police can no longer contain. While press reports predictably did not specify the race(s) of the offenders, it would surprise if Britain’s nonwhite inhabitants, in particular its blacks, did not figure disproportionately among the rowdies.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-21 17:32:12 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Hope
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Maria Sharapova, the 18-year-old tennis sensation from Russia, continues to reap the rewards of her natural beauty, her athletic skills, and her training regimen: this year she’s made an estimated $22.5 million from endorsements, second among tennis stars only to Andre Agassi. Sharapova is gunning for her second consecutive British Open title, and this year every Wimbledon-branded tennis racket and sports bag bears her image. Sharapova, who defeated her first opponent yesterday, acknowledges that she’s had to work hard at the gym to add strength to the frame with which she defeated muscular African-American star Serena Williams in last year’s British Open: “I’ve been doing lots of gym work…Strengthwise, sometimes I feel like my arm is like a swan’s neck, it is so weak.” The meteoric rise of the teenager from Siberia (her parents took her to Florida when she was a child) as an athlete and an icon suggests a couple of promising things: first, that what American “majority” advocate Wilmot Robertson once called the “aesthetic prop”—the power of white womanly beauty—remains in place, and that post-Communist Russia—depicted as little more than a nuisance and a failure by most Western media—possesses great and golden genetic reserves for our race.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-14 14:37:41 [ Print | 1 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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The latest Gallup poll shows that 59 percent of Americans favor withdrawing some troops from Iraq (28 percent want all Americans GIs out); nearly as many polled (56 percent) believe that the invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia wasn’t worth the effort. Another poll, conducted by ABC News and the Washington Post, recently determined that three in four questioned believed that casualty levels in Iraq (c. 1,700 American troops killed, some 12,000 wounded badly enough to require hospitalization) have been unacceptable. If there’s anything noteworthy about popular disaffection with U.S. policy on Iraq and Afghanistan, and disregard of the rest of the failing War on Terror, however, it’s how slowly and tentatively attitudes have shifted to reflect reality, instead echoing government assurances and the largely complaisant reporting by the major media outlets. Not merely the general torpor of the American public’s response, but its passivity and indifference to the challenges of the War on Terror, contrast starkly with the situation on the home front following Pearl Harbor, which triggered not only robust calls for vengeance but a zealous hunt for scapegoats and—more important—a great trooping of our young men to the recruitment stations and a nationwide belt-tightening to enhance the war effort. The contrast to today’s America, which has granted a plenary indulgence to all, from the president on down, who failed in their duty to protect Americans on September 11, 2001; which has substituted flag-waving and ribbon-wearing (as if at a sporting event) and a victim cult of the 9/11 dead for a rush to the colors; and has replaced husbanding raw materials and energy (“Is This Trip Really Necessary?”) with the conspicuous consumption of fuel and all else, and replaced victory gardens and Rosie the Riveter with Victor the gardener and Rosa the nanny, couldn’t be clearer. It is also worth recalling that, despite the ensuing advances in communications and transport, U.S. forces were able to cross two oceans, invade three continents, and celebrate victories over Europe and Japan (at a cost of around 400,000 American lives) in a few months less the period of time that has elapsed from September 11, 2001 to today.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-14 14:37:41 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Action
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The Michigan State Police gave a textbook lesson in immigration control last week when they raided 17 Chinese restaurants and 21 residences (one of which housed at least twenty indentured workers) across the state in search of evidence of fraud, tax evasion, and the employment of illegal aliens against their will. The raids resulted in at least two dozen arrests for working with false papers and other immigration violations, and netted mountains of business records as well as about $400,000 in cash. According to Michigan St. Police detective Curt Schram, the illegal employees are forced to pay most of their wages to the immigrant smugglers who brought them to America, while the various restaurants—which authorities believe are owned by a single Chinese family—are suspected of greatly understating their proceeds in order to avoid taxes, then shipping the greatly engorged profits to the Far East. Police action against immigration abuses in Michigan, a “liberal” state despite the impact of immigration and outsourcing on the job market for white Michiganders, is additional evidence of a recent shift in the political wind in favor of controlling immigration that has district attorneys and police chiefs vying for the public’s favor by enforcing the law (see “Police in New Hampshire Ticket Illegals for Trespass,” May 24, 2005).
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-14 14:37:41 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Hope
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University and the Atlanta-based Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) have discovered that differences in primate social behavior may be linked to variances in DNA material that has hitherto been dismissed as non-functional. Studying the behavior of the male prairie vole, a rodent species, Dr. Elizabeth Hammock and Dr. Larry Young examined repeating sequences, or microsatellite DNA (once known as “junk DNA”) associated with the expression of the voles’ vasopressin receptor gene (which has been shown to regulate social behavior in numerous species) in the brain. Hammock and Young discovered that voles which had the same vasopressin receptor gene but different sequences in the “junk DNA” differed dramatically in sexual and parenting behavior. Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, states, “This research appears to have found one of those hotspots in the genome where small differences can have large functional impact…This is an extraordinary example of research linking gene variation to brain receptors to behavior." Hammock and Young are eager to do further work on the microsatellite DNA of the vasopressin receptor gene in primates, in particular the bonobo, the ape that most closely resembles man in the relevant DNA. The Georgia scientists’ work may help explain the causes of shyness, autism, and other puzzling conditions in humans, as well as open the door to the study of the role of so-called non-functional DNA in numerous differences between individuals and groups that remain unexplained by genetic research to date.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-14 14:37:40 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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According to Danish justice minister Lene Espersen, immigrant gangs have taken over organized crime in Denmark. The intruders, who come mostly from the Middle East and the Balkans, have displaced the homegrown biker gangs that once controlled the Danish traffic in illegal drugs, and have also taken charge of human trafficking from Eastern Europe and the Third World to the small Nordic country. The immigrant role in the drug business has become especially noticeable in recent months, as different alien gangs have battled one another for control of the lucrative trade, resulting in two gang murders in Copenhagen since April. Danish police hope to fight the alien gang infestation through infiltration and surveillance, techniques that worked well enough against native low-lifes but are obviously more problematic against clannish foreign criminals. Earlier this year, Danish police began to register the number and frequency of crimes committed by alien youths after research established that immigrant between 15 and 18 commit three times as many crimes as do Danes from the same age groups (see “Danish Police: Immigrant Gangs Biggest Copenhagen Menace,” TOH, Jan. 5, 2005).
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-10 14:46:18 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Hope
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Leaders of the Detroit Regional Chamber, a prominent local business association, were shocked this week to find that a majority of Michigan business owners support an amendment that would ban antiwhite discrimination in the state’s government and universities, according to a poll conducted Crain’s Detroit Business. DRC president Richard Blouse decried the results, which bode ill for corporate opponents of an amendment banning racial, ethnic, and sexual discrimination expected to be voted on by Michiganders next year. The poll revealed a split between the big corporations and professional associations that control the DRC and the largely small and medium-sized business owners who make up most of its membership. In an effort to intimidate Michigan businesspersons with the shibboleths of political correctness, DRC are trashing their home state as a den of racist iniquity (senior vice president Karen Batchelor claims that Michigan is one of the nation’s most segregated states) and predicting the usual doomsday scenarios for commerce if the amendment should pass. The 53 percent of DRC business owners who support the amendment seem to be shrugging their shoulders, though, and its supporters have so far collected well over the 371,757 signatures required to put it on the ballot in 2006. Big business and the rest of Michigan’s multicultural combine will likely try to torpedo the popular will by petitioning the courts to sustain the state’s antiwhite policies.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-10 14:46:17 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Motor-mouthed Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean blundered into racial realism this week when he once again described the Republican Party as “pretty much a white Christian party.” Dean’s remarks, which crystallized what the Vermonter has been saying (and many Democrats thinking) for months, if not years, have at last drawn outrage from the Republicans and some of their right-wing Christian supporters. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), evidently stung by the implication that he might be neglecting the various nonwhite minorities he has sought to obtain preferential legislation for over the years (while, alas, attracting few of their votes) called the Dean comments, which pretty accurately describe the GOP’s “red state” power base, “racial demagoguery, pure and simple,” while Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) accused Dean of “hate speech.” Christian Republicans labored mightily to produce minority representatives that would gainsay the Democratic chairman’s hateful slur, and were much gratified when the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, a Jew, announced that “a lot of folks who attended my bar mitzvah would be surprised” to learn that today he heads an exclusively Christian party. That Dean, rather than the white Christian Republicans, was the one who found himself under fire for his generally accurate description of the opposing party’s composition is good news, no matter that the powerful neoconservative preponderance in the Republican Party might seem to indicate that the GOP is white and conservative, all right, but only from the neck down.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-10 14:46:17 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Concern
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When is a savage, unprovoked physical attack by members of one race, shouting racial slurs, on those of another not a hate crime? In Calgary, Alberta, Canada, it’s when the attackers, who seriously injured eight women and men with machetes, pit bulls, pipes, and knives after crashing a party in the city’s Forest Lawn area, are nonwhites, and their prey are whites. Although the assailants have all been described as “dark-skinned males,” and notwithstanding that they inflicted so many injuries on the white residents and their guests that seven ambulances were required to transport the wounded, including one white whose throat had been slashed, two with punctured lungs, and another with a broken nose and a smashed cheekbone, Calgary police inspector Bob Couture claims there is no evidence of bias in the crimes, for which five men have been apprehended. A few days later, Calgary police gave evidence of their criteria for hate crimes by opening an investigation on Bill Whatcott, leader of a group called Christian Truth Activists, who recently inserted flyers castigating same-sex marriages in Calgary residents’ mailboxes. A clue to the Calgary coppers’ double standard, which reminds of the Soviet policy of punishing ideological enemies more severely than ordinary criminals, is provided by the special recognition that the Toronto-based Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies conferred on two members of the Calgary police force for fighting “hate” last month.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-07 09:26:32 [ Print | 1 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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A team of researchers at the University of Utah has produced a study that argues that high levels of intelligence among Ashkenazi, or Jews derived from central and eastern Europe, is genetically linked to certain diseases once prevalent among them, and that the linkage developed as an evolutionary response to the persecution of Jews by non-Jews in the European Diaspora. Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy, and Henry Harpending, of the UU department of anthropology, note the incontestable evidence of high IQ among Ashkenazi and their descendants (American Jews, 3 percent of the population, have provided 27 percent of U.S. Nobel prize winners; over half the world’s chess masters are Jews), and suggest that occupational restrictions that for centuries confined Jews to despised occupations which required high intellect for success, such as money lending and tax farming, placed a premium on not merely having brains, but on breeding for them as well. The innovative part of their study, “Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence,” which has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Biosocial Science, published by the Cambridge University Press in England, is its hypothesis that the genetic component for high Jewish intelligence may have evolved in concert with the genes for such “Jewish” diseases as Tay-Sachs and Niemann-Pick, which occurs through mutation of DNA involved in the storage in nerve cells of special fats called sphingolipids, and with the genes for cancers that occur through mutation of genes for DNA repair. Geneticists around the world are currently giving close and for the most part respectful attention to the Utah anthropologists’ findings, which would serve to validate a close linkage between high intelligence and heredity. (Click on “The Occidental Quarterly,” main menu [on the left of this page] to read Professor Kevin MacDonald’s award-winning study of some of the consequences of inherited Jewish genius, “Understanding Jewish Influence,” under “articles,” TOQ vols. 3/2 and 3/3 (summer and fall 2003).
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-07 09:26:32 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Hope
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The British government’s decision yesterday to suspend plans for a national referendum on the proposed new constitution for the European Union was, according to Germany’s international radio service, Deutsche Welle, “just one more shovelful of dirt in what is turning into a very deep constitutional grave.” Coming two weeks after the French people’s strong rejection of the new treaty, and a few days after its thumping at the hands of the Dutch, the statements from Britain’s well-monickered prime minister, Tony Blair, and foreign minister, Jack Straw, read more like obituaries than surrender bulletins. Blair felt forced to defend his government’s decision to sign the treaty, while acknowledging that, in the words of the Financial Times, “parts of the treaty must be salvaged at some future date.” Indeed, as Eurocrats from France and Germany bit back at Blair for his scuttling too hastily over the foundering constitutional treaty’s side, the Euro con was resembling more Caspar David Friedrich’s Wreck of the Hope or Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa than the imperious dreadnought it had seemed a few months ago. Indeed, the PM himself, struggling to maintain his weakening hold on No. 10 Downing Street, gave support to marine metaphors by telling reporters, “I have just decided to let it all wash over me and carry on governing really.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-07 09:26:31 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Few things indicate the depth and causes of ordinary Europeans’ resistance to the planned European Union constitution and the faceless but iron-fisted bureaucrats who would enforce it than a report yesterday from Italy, where grocers and shoppers are fuming over a Euro edict that bans the traditional practice of selling mozzarella (a cheese made from buffalo milk) in brine. Instead, EU rules mandate that the cheese must be sold in tight plastic wrappers stamped all over with expiration dates, lest Italian consumers, unsupervised by the dietary commissars in Brussels, begin dropping like flies from salmonella and other ills. “Mozzarella loses all its flavor sitting in a plastic bag,” gripes Rome grocer Ruggero Ruggeri. “And how can we cut it to order? Our clients have complained. People don’t like it anymore.” Meanwhile, the scheme to turn Europe into a bloodless economic unit despoiled of all authentic national and regional integrity—and thus of all real traditions—took another body blow on Friday, when Roberto Maroni, a minister in the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, announced that he and his party, the Northern League, of which he is joint acting leader, will start collecting signatures for a referendum to restore the lira as Italy’s currency and junk the euro, which has lately been falling rapidly on the international market, even against the U.S. dollar. While both accompanying reports acknowledge the importance of popular Italian opposition to runaway Third World immigration and to the anticipated entry of Asian, Muslim Turkey into the European Union, it’s good to know that meddling even with Italy’s historically weak currency has aroused ire. And surely the dispatch of an international coalition to seize the mozzarella weapons of biological destruction and to impose gastronomical democracy on the wayward Italians would be a loser from the start: Just how long would it take for suicide bombers to begin targeting the Chuck E. Cheese’s?
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-03 11:52:58 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Concern
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Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are under fire for concealing a savage machete attack on an 18-year-old man by members of the feared Central American gang MS-13 on Sunday. The assault, which resulted in extensive head and hand injuries to the unnamed victim, took place on a suburban street in Springfield, Virginia that has recently begun to see an influx of immigrant transients, and longtime residents complained about being kept in the dark about the facts of the crime until yesterday. One of them, a woman who refused to be identified for fear of retribution by MS-13, told the press, “I think that they owe it to us to tell it to us.” District Supervisor T. Dana Kauffman, whom police also failed to inform, was so angered that he has braved risking charges of nativism: the Democratic official is now calling for a local ban on the sale of machetes. The MS-13 gang, which was enabled to take root and fester in this country thanks to an amnesty under the torpid watch of conservative idol President Ronald Reagan, is now thought to have two thousand members in the North Virginia area alone, and has conducted a reign of terror there that has included at least nine murders and numerous mutilations of its targets since 2000 (see “Hispanic Gangsters in Virginia Enforce Hands-Off Policy,” TOH, May 11, 2005).
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-03 11:52:58 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Recent scientific research may or may not have vindicated civil rights leader Jesse Jackson against charges of racism. In 1993 the black leader confessed: “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” According to a report published last month in the journal Nature Neuroscience, blacks and whites respond in very similar numbers (63 percent for blacks, 64 percent for whites) with expressions of alarm as measured in changes in the amygdala, the center in the human brain that arms the body against perceived threats, when viewing photographs of African Americans. Responses to similar pictures of Caucasians evoked much lower indicators of stress, according to Professor Matthew Lieberman, who headed the team that conducted the study at the University of California in Los Angeles: not a single participant in the experiment perceived the Caucasian photos as more threatening than those of the blacks. Professor Lieberman was at a loss to explain his findings, but suggested that blacks, like whites, may be succumbing to the sort of racial stereotypes promoted by the Reverend Jackson and others.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-03 11:52:58 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Hope
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The British art world is in turmoil after Gillian Carnegie, a 34-year-old painter who portrays flowers, nudes, and landscapes in traditional fashion, was shortlisted for Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize yesterday. Although Carnegie’s paintings have been hailed as contemporary masterpieces, smelling salts were making the circuit of the Sceptred Isle’s cultural establishment following the news that Carnegie would vying for the prize with such recognized masters as “Darren Almond, who displayed bus stops he saw outside the Auschwitz Museum in Poland in a gallery in Berlin; Glasgow-born Jim Lambie, who is known for his psychedelic floor pieces, and environmentally friendly artist Simon Starling, 38, who rode a moped across the desert in Andalusia which generated power using only compressed bottled hydrogen and oxygen from the desert air,” according to the Scotsman. Predictably, the tabloid Mirror mocked the art world for its preciosity and nostalgie de la boue in its headline “It Made Pickled Sharks and Elephant Dung into Art… but the New Turner Prize ‘Shock’ Is an Artist Who Paints Flowers”—underscoring, for Britain’s swooning aesthetes, the ignorance and menace toward establishment-promoted and taxpayer-funded art that still lurks among ordinary English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish folk.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-06-03 11:52:57 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Hope
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The smashing defeat of the proposed European Union constitution by Dutch voters on Wednesday—over sixty percent said no to more Third World immigration and less Dutch sovereignty—is the second crushing blow within a week to internationalist schemes to convert Europe into a deracinated empire founded on a sterile materialism (see “French Nationalism Crushes Proposed New Euro Con,” TOH, May 31, 2005). The Dutch and Euro establishments pulled out all the stops to depict voter opposition to the constitution as “nativism,” “xenophobia,” and all the other tired words for national freedom and integrity. The Dutch Liberal party went so far as to run a television ad that equated rejecting the EU constitution with massacre and genocide by featuring atrocity pornography in the form of pictures from Auschwitz, Srbrenica, and other sites of atrocities real or imagined. Geert Wilders, the Dutch nationalist politician who emerged from police-ordered hiding after Islamicist fanatics threatened his life to lead the plebiscite against the EU treaty, best expressed what motivated his countrymen and women: “We are in a lot of struggles in Holland today when it comes to immigration, when it comes to integration, even when it comes to terrorism, because we were always too politically correct. We ignored the facts; we put them under the carpet, and we thought that tomorrow the sun would shine again. Well, unfortunately, the sun might shine, but the problems don’t go away. So we should face our problems, and immigration is one of them. And there are major changes that are not in the interest of our kingdom in the constitution.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-05-31 13:03:37 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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During the fiscal year 2003–4 the Atlanta-based, nonprofit Martin Luther King Jr. Center paid almost $1.3 million to a business run by the black leader’s son, Dexter Scott King, who also served that year as acting chief executive officer of the center. The business, Intellectual Properties Management Inc., licenses Martin Luther King’s words and images for King’s estate, which his family runs as a for-profit business. Groups which monitor charities for improprieties frown at so “dangerously cozy” a relationship: according to Rick Cohen, executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, current King Center practice “...is not only a problem of transparency, but creating a potential conflict of interest and the potential for self-dealing.” Dexter King received over $180,000 for his work as board chairman and CEO of the Center, which is heavy supported by tax-free philanthropies such as the Target Corporation and the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation, which each donated $50,000 in 2003–4; ExxonMobil Corp., McDonald’s Corp., and the National Education Association ($30,000 each), and Mercedes Benz USA ($20,000).
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-05-31 13:03:37 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Teachers at heavily Latino Hollywood High School are up in arms over a proposal from the Los Angeles Board of Education that would require all high school students to take college preparatory courses, including two years of history and three years of mathematics. Math teacher Geoffrey Buck of Hollywood High School, who according to the accompanying article must vie for attention in his classes with Chicanas whispering about Spanish-language soap operas, warns that higher standards would just produce more dropouts: “In L.A. Unified, we can’t teach these kids to multiply,” while Hollywood college counselor Judy Campbell notes that students there do far better in cooking and performing arts classes. Meanwhile, at the Lincoln Middle School in Vista, California, Latino parents of pupils have joined forces with principal Larrie Hall, who wants to abolish the school’s Gifted and Talented Education program and disperse its mostly white students among the largely Latino regular classes to boost test scores in line with the requirements of the No Child Left behind Act (see “Constitution State Challenges Bush’s Voodoo Pegagogy,” TOH, May 10, 2005). Latino parents have made their position clear in a letter to the school board: “All students should be treated equally. We believe that the school should not create differences between students who know more and students who know less.”
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-05-31 13:03:36 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Action
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White wristbands that a coalition of British philanthropies sell to finance a campaign against Third World poverty turn out to have been made in factories in China in which conditions approach slave labor, according to recent audits of those factories. Many of the white wristbands, which had previously enabled their wearers, including Tony Blair, rock impresario Bob Geldof, and numerous other politicians and pop stars to make a simultaneous fashion and “ethical” statement in support of the “Make Poverty History” campaign, were manufactured in the Tat Shing Rubber Manufacturing Company in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, which required “financial deposits” from new employees and subjected workers to poor health and safety conditions, long hours, and a seven-day week, while cheating them out of pay and providing them inadequate insurance, no annual leave, and no right to freedom of association. An audit of another factory, the Fuzhou Xing Chun Trade Company in Fujian province, found that some wristband workers were receiving no more than seventeen cents an hour for their labor. A spokesman for one charity in the coalition, Christian Aid, which bought more than 500,000 wristbands from the Tat Shing factory for resale at £1 each to Britons, has accused the holier-than-thou philanthropy Oxfam of failing to tell it about work conditions there: “Oxfam placed an order and told us the Chinese company was ethically OK. We accepted that and ordered wristbands in good faith. If Oxfam had concerns about ethical standards they did not pass them on for a considerable time.” Still, Christian Aid continues to order from the Fujian sweatshop, purportedly as part of a “constructive engagement” policy to help the company mend its ways.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-05-31 13:03:36 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Hope
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The crushing blow French voters dealt to the proposed new European Constitution on Sunday was a resounding affirmation of the real France. Some 56% of French men and women, in the teeth of a massive establishment propaganda campaign, voted yes to preserve their country as a white, Western nation, and no to attempts by European Union bureaucrats and internationalist politicians to turn “la belle France” into a dumping ground for Third World immigrants. Voting against the treaty enabling the constitution was heaviest in Picardy, Lille, and Champagne, all in northern France; young French people voted strongly against it, as did 58% of French women. As a sorely humiliated French president Jacques Chirac struggled to shuffle his cabinet, as Eurocrats fumed over the democratic rebuke to their dirigiste designs, and as the establishment media sweated to interpret the plebiscite as an expression of pocketbook concerns and a vague “social malaise,” a triumphant Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose campaigning was a key element in the outcome, told French visitors to his National Front web site “Merci.” More bad news for the EU’s globalist commissars: the Dutch, led by outspoken nationalist politician Geert Wilders, are expected to vote even more heavily against the constitutional treaty this Wednesday.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-05-31 13:03:36 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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European Commission Vice President Gunther Verheugen has warned Angela Merkel, newly elected leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), not to make a campaign issue of Turkish entry into the European Union in the national election expected to take place in Germany shortly. Verheugen said that since the EU had decided unanimously to accept Turkey as a candidate for membership (see “Conditions On, Opposition To, Turkish EU Entry Growing,” TOH, October 8, 2004), Turkish membership could only be rejected unanimously. The 50-year-old Merkel, who received a Ph.D. in physics and worked as a chemist in East Germany, has been a strong opponent of Muslim inroads in Germany and Turkish admission to the EU and. The daughter of a Protestant pastor, Merkel is proud of her Christian upbringing and faith, which she says only grew stronger under oppression in the Communist-ruled East. Eurocrat Verheugen’s ukase is hardly the first instance of EU meddling in the affairs of Europe’s sovereign nations: the EU has punished both France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen and Austria’s Jörg Haider for political incorrectness, including insufficient reverence for every jot and tittle of the received account of the Nazi Holocaust.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-05-31 13:03:36 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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A son-in-law of South African black leader and Nobel peace prize winner Nelson Mandela is wanted in the United States for raping a female student at Manchester Community Technical College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1993. In December of that year a Connecticut court allowed the suspect, Dr. Isaac Amuah, to visit South Africa on the condition that he return for trial, but then Amuah disappeared from sight for nearly twelve years. Amuah, who heads South Africa’s Southern Electricity Company, was perturbed by the news that the rape charge hasn’t been dropped. He complained to South African media on Sunday, “I remind you that this story is 12 years old, so you must ask yourself: Why this now?” Amuah’s difficulties are only the latest troubles for Mandela’s family: his son died of AIDS in January, and his former wife Winnie Mandela, who routinely exhorted Mandela’s followers to burn suspected government informers alive before the fall of South Africa’s white regime, is suing her nephew, Muzontsondu Madikizela, for stealing 100,000 South African rands from her.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-05-27 14:20:01 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Despite the promises of President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Law, black and Hispanic students continue to trail far behind whites and Asians, so America’s educators are “putting an extraordinary effort into improving the achievement of minority students,” according to the New York Times. The nation’s educational Napoleons have already suffered many a Waterloo at the hands of demographic and racial realities, as the Times lets slip by its admission that after fifty years of egalitarian activism in the schools, “the average black or Hispanic student can read and do arithmetic only as well as average eight-grade white student.” Key to the efforts to help African-American and Hispanic students, according to Maryland state school superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick, is “training our teachers and…identifying and helping those students who need special support,” i.e., diverting scarce teaching resources to help minority laggards at the expense of white and Asian children. Boston, where Harvard education professor Ronald Ferguson is fielding numerous requests for advice from school superintendents across America, is predictably a chief focus of the latest procrustean campaign for educational reform. Sad experience teaches, however, that soon enough even the most Stakhanovite measures to equalize racial performance in the classroom will regress to renewed hunts for that cunning old devil, Racism, dragnets doomed—alas!—to be as fruitless as those wrestling matches in which Ferguson’s Harvard predecessors, Increase and Cotton Mather, struggled futilely with Satan in New England’s Puritan heyday, over three centuries ago.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-05-27 14:20:01 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Left-wingers are perturbed at reported Department of Homeland Security policy plans to make leftist groups with documented records of terrorism, rather than right-wing extremists who think and speak forbidden thoughts, its main target in guarding internal security. According to the Congressional Quarterly, an internal DHS planning document calls for the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, members of which have carried out numerous attacks on alleged traducers of the planet’s fauna and flora, to come under DHS watch, while raggle-taggle Klan klaverns and letterhead right-wing “hate” groups will be overlooked. A blustering editorial in the New York Times invokes the name of Timothy McVeigh, the lone wolf bomber of Oklahoma City’s federal building in 1995, in demanding surveillance of every right-wing bee in the bonnets of “watchdog” groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, but neglects to note that McVeigh, like most of the few terrorists on the far right, belonged to no group. Since 9/11 the SPLC has spearheaded efforts to destroy America’s defenses against alien attackers by fighting immigration controls and opposing such practical measures as profiling likely terrorists by nationality and ethnicity. If indeed the Department of Homeland Security, headed by Michael Chertoff, is moving toward sensible antiterror policies, its leaders might think of severing ties with the SPLC, whose propagandists help “train” law enforcement officials at the DHS’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
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Posted by tedok on: 2005-05-27 14:20:01 [ Print | 0 Comment(s) | Category: Identity
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Famed reporter Oriana Fallaci must stand trial in Italy for writing La Rabbia e l’Orgoglio (English title: The Rage and the Pride), a book that allegedly defames the Koran. The fiery journalist, whose interviews with men like Henry Kissinger, Yasir Arafat, and the Shah of Iran were media events in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, was ordered by an Italian judge on Wednesday to be tried for public defamation of Islam under Italy’s regressive, opinion-stifling “hate” laws for her tart words against what she sees as Muslim inroads into the West (see “Passionate Plea against an Islamicized West,” TOH, May 7, 2004). The suit against Fallaci, in her mid-70s and in poor health, was brought in Bergamo by Adel Smith, a Muslim activist, and, among others, prosecution lawyer Matteo Nicoli, who says that “Some of the things that she said are offensive to Islam.” The affair has outraged many in Italy, including Italian government minister Stefania Prestigiacomo, who doubtless spoke for many of her countrymen when she stated: “Our country is becoming a disquieting one if freedom of speech can be condemned or punished. Reading that someone wants to try Oriana Fallaci because of her ideas makes me think of a sort of lay ‘fatwa,’ such as the one which has been forcing Salman Rushdie to hide for years now…I admire Mrs. Fallaci…Let’s make [her] feel at home in Italy, instead of fueling the fires of intolerance.” (Subscribers to the Occidental Quarterly, a forthright journal of ideas, may read Derek Turner’s review of The Rage and the Pride in the upcoming spring 2005 issue.)
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