Monthly Archives: December 2012
British Scouts plans to draft alternative oath without references to God
Amsterdam is to create “Scum villages” where nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city
Segregation is much more civilized than imprisonment.
Holland’s capital already has a special hit squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six month course in how to behave.
Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and homelessness. 
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Milton Friedman on Auto-Safety
1) The young ideologue in the video is NOT Michael Moore.
2) I love Friedman’s courage and logic. You can see why he became influential. Almost makes me forgive him for helping establish income tax withholding.
Trotsky Fan Lectures Former Soviet Citizen on Wonders of “Socialist Alternatives” to Capitalism
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USA vs USSR
WWII, Holocaust, Autarky
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Palestinian UN Bid fallout: New Construction, Taxes Withheld, Ambassadors Pulled
Following Palestinian UN bid, Israel okays construction of 3,000 new West Bank units
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Israel halts Palestinian tax transfer Israel has halted the transfer of tax and tariff money it collects for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in response to their successful bid for UN non-member observer state status.
Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s finance minister, said on Sunday that the government would use the money it was to transfer to the Palestinians to pay down their debt to the Israel Electric Corporation and other Israeli bodies.
“I have no intention of transferring the taxes due to the Palestinian Authority this month,” Steinitz said.
“They will be used to pay the PA debts to the Israeli electricity company and other bodies.”
Without the transfer, the PA will not have the money to pay government salaries.
Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston, reporting from Ramallah, said 150,000 public service employees rely on the money.
The move is the second such act by Israel. On Friday, it announced it would press ahead with plans to build thousands of settler homes on illegally occupied territory.
Johnston said the new settlements would mean a 25km journey from Bethlehem to Ramallah would be more than quadrupled to 120km as Palestinians would be forced to circumvent the settlements.
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US ‘shocked’ by new settlement plan New York Times says Israel gave United States only few hours’ notice of decision to pursue development that could prevent creation of viable, contiguous Palestinian state. ‘This is one of the most sensitive areas of territory,’ says former Ambassador Kurtzer . . . . The Americans were particularly angry at the decision to pursue “preliminary zoning and planning preparations” for a development on the segment connecting the town of Ma’aleh Adumim to Jerusalem (known as area E1) that would separate Ramallah and Bethlehem from Jerusalem and could prevent the creation of a viable, contiguous Palestinian state.
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For first time, Britain, France may recall ambassadors to protest Israel’s settlement construction
As we approach financial Armageddon, economic ignorance dominates the press
That’s how things often work in America. Half-a-century of tax cuts focused on the wealthiest Americans leave us with third-rate public services, leading the wealthy to develop inefficient private workarounds. (Read more)
The latest propaganda meme seems to revolve around the 90% top income tax bracket of the 1950’s (which nobody paid b/c there were so many loop holes). Regardless, the true measure of how much money the gov’t is stealing is not taxes, but spending. What they don’t steal immediately, they’ll take from your children through debt, or stealthily through inflation.
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STUDY: Every $1 Of Infrastructure Spending Boosts The Economy By $2
Read more: www.businessinsider.com/infrastructure-economic-multiplier-2012-11#ixzz2DqgS19ci
I say we spend a HUNDRED THOUSAND BAZILLION dollars on infrastructure! That way, we’ll make TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND BAZILLION dollars!
U.S. to spend up to $100 million in order to build the Israelis an Air Force complex near Tel Aviv
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is receiving bids to build a five-story complex for the Israeli Air Force, or IAF, near Tel Aviv.
The facility, mysteriously dubbed “site 911,” will be built under the auspices of the Foreign Military Sales program and is expected to cost the U.S. between $25 million and $100 million, according to a solicitation for bids posted on a U.S. government website.
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The architectural plans, drawn up by prominent Israeli firm Ada Karmi-Melamede Architects, pays close attention to the aesthetics of the design as well as the functional parameters outlined in the solicitation. For example, three picnic tables are planned for the exterior. (Read more)
Butler University Students Told To Disavow Maleness
“Raisin” Hell at the Supreme Court
Tis the season to give thanks. And for the last 80 years, the federal government has required raisin producers to “give thanks” for the privilege of selling their raisins nationally by requiring them to fork over up to half of their raisins – for free. A lawsuit raising a constitutional challenge to the program has now made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case is Horne v. Department of Agriculture.
The program, operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has a rather Orwellian-sounding name – the “Raisin Marketing Order.” In a nutshell, under this program, every year, as a condition for “letting” farmers sell their raisin crops in interstate commerce, the federal government has taken up to 47% of the farmers’ raisins – often for no payment at all, or below the cost of producing the raisins. The program has its origins in Great Depression efforts to fix the prices of agricultural crops. (Read more)
Catalonians elect Secessionists!
How research changed my mind to overcome the “all races are equal” dogma
I grew up indoctrinated by political correctness. Like a large part of citizens in Western countries I was brainwashed: Races do not exist, all are equal. Saying anything different, saying that there are racial differences, is racism, a crime.
In school I heard disparaging remarks about Artur Jensen and other “unscientific” “dishonest” “cheating” scientists doing faulty research about race differences.
The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray actually looked fairly convincing to me, but if even President Bill Clinton denounced it, there must be something wrong about it.
There always was some complex theory to explain away the IQ differences:
– different culture
– parental expectation
– mother’s malnourishment
– IQ measurements are racially and culturally biased
My opinion changed when I read about trans-racial adoption studies. That was the last drop that really disproved all these desperate attempts to explain away racial differences in intelligence.
“The best evidence for the genetic basis of race-IQ differences comes from trans-racial adoption studies of Oriental children, Black children, and Mixed-Race children. All these children have been adopted by White parents at an early age and have grown up in middle-class White homes.”
Chart 9 summarizes the results for Oriental children adopted into White middle-class homes.
Korean and Vietnamese babies from poor backgrounds, many of whom were malnourished, were adopted by White American and Belgian families. When they grew up, they excelled in school. The IQs of the adopted Oriental children were 10 or more points higher than the national average for the country they grew up in. Trans-racial adoption does not increase or decrease IQ. The three-way pattern of race differences in IQ remains.”
In plain English: adopted Asian babies grew up to be very bright, adopted black babies grew up to have low intelligence.
One more desperate argument that was posed to save the “racial equality” dogma:
They claimed “expectancy effects,” not genes, explained the pattern. They argued that the Black and White children were not treated the same. Even if parents took good care of their children, the schools, classmates, and society as a whole discriminated against Black children and this hurt their IQs. Because we expected Black children to do poorly in school, they lived up to our low expectations.”
Even that argument got promptly destroyed. Rushton:
A special analysis of the Scarr study compared parents who believed that they had adopted a Black baby but, really, had adopted a Mixed-Race (Black-White) child. The average IQ for these Mixed-Race children was just about the same as for other Mixed-Race children and above that for adopted Black children. This was true even though the parents who adopted these Mixed-Race children thought their babies really had two Black parents.
That did it for me. It destroyed my ingrained indoctrinated beliefs that all races must be equal. It opened up my mind to the possibility that there could be racial differences.
Before we go on, may I stress a few more points
– I have no axe to grind against blacks. I am not interested in proving that blacks are stupid or inferior. I am not a white supremacist
– I have an axe to grind against dogmatism, blindness, stupidity. I have an axe to grind against the catholic church for repressing Galileo’s truth about the moving and revolving earth. And I have an axe to grind about political correctness repressing the truth, repressing research.
– This site is about human stupidity versus truth and consciousness
– Rushton, though much maligned, is not some crazy cook but one of the most prestigious research scientists to date: Rushton holds two doctorates from the University of London (Ph.D. and D.Sc) and is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American, British, and Canadian Psychological Associations. He is also a member of the Behavior Genetics Association, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and the Society for Neuroscience. Rushton has published six books and nearly 200 articles. In 1992 the Institute for Scientific Information ranked him the 22nd most published psychologist and the 11th most cited. Professor Rushton is listed in Who. Some of Rushtons scientific publications can be found on his University. (Read more)
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For anyone who’s curious: IQs by country
Race is not everything, but it’s not nothing either.