“Calling Sweden, you will soon be connected to a random Swede.”
Those are the first words one hears when dialing the “Swedish Number,” a new hotline created to connect callers with local residents. A few flat tones later and the caller is patched through to, well, a random Swede.
One such call late Thursday morning connected with David Lamm, a product designer from the nation’s second most-populous city, Gothenburg. Lamm, who speaks English, volunteered to field calls on Wednesday, which was both the day the service launched and his 31st birthday.
“We were sort of invited to answer the phone for Sweden and I thought I had to sign up,” he said.
The conversation on Thursday was Lamm’s seventh through the service. His first was with a pleasant man from Istanbul, who, like this reporter, first asked about the weather. (It was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit and raining when we spoke.) Lamm also spoke with two Americans, he said.
“The interesting thing with both of those guys is that they were sort of calling with a Donald Trump-ish agenda,” he said. “They wanted to hear sort of ‘What the hell are you doing over there in Sweden, taking all those immigrants, all those Muslims.'”
(The nation welcomed more refugees per capita than much of Europe last year, though that openness has not come without its problems. Authorities have been accused of covering up crime allegedly committed by migrants, resulting in a sometimes-violent backlash.)
Lamm’s conversations were facilitated by the Swedish Number—46-771-793-336, or 46-771-SWEDEN—debuted on Wednesday and was conceived by the Swedish Tourist Association, a nonprofit that runs more than 350 accommodations including hostels, hotels, mountain stations and cabins.
It was launched to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the passage of what many say was the world’s firstpress freedom law. The hotline itself appears to mark another first: It is the world’s only national phone number connecting callers to local residents, the association said in a statement.
“We want to show the real Sweden – a unique country worth visiting with the right of public access, sustainable tourism, and a rich cultural heritage,” Magnus Ling, general secretary and chief executive officer of the association, said in a statement.
Just after 11 a.m. on Thursday, that meant Lamm, who, for what it’s worth, defended the refugees his country has welcomed.
“We’ve had problems in Sweden, of course, but it’s mostly due to us being bad at integration projects, he said. “I wouldn’t blame anything on the people coming here, I mean they’re fleeing for their lives.”
Lamm shared his experience growing up with refugees from the Bosnian conflict: “I grew up with a lot of those that came then and that worked out really good,” he said.
Blacks in the United States have the highest prostate cancer rate in the world and nearly twice that of whites in the United States. The 2:1 black-to-white ratio in prostate cancer rates is already apparent at age 45 years, the age at which the earliest prostate cancer cases occur. This finding suggests that the factor(s) responsible for the difference in rates occurs, or first occurs, early in life. Testosterone has been hypothesized to play a role in the etiology of prostate cancer, because testosterone and its metabolite, dihydrotestosterone, are the principal trophic hormones that regulate growth and function of epithelial prostate tissue. This report gives the results of assays of circulating steroid hormone levels in white and black college students in Los Angeles, CA. Mean testosterone levels in blacks were 19% higher than in whites, and free testosterone levels were 21% higher. Both these differences were statistically significant. Adjustment by analysis of covariance for time of sampling, age, weight, alcohol use, cigarette smoking, and use of prescription drugs somewhat reduced the differences. After these adjustments were made, blacks had a 15% higher testosterone level and a 13% higher free testosterone level. A 15% difference in circulating testosterone levels could readily explain a twofold difference in prostate cancer risk.
High testosterone is linked to aggression and correlates with violent crime rates. Just as men have higher testosterone levels than women and commit about ten times as much violent crime as women, so too do blacks have more testosterone than whites and commit more violent crimes than whites, while whites have higher testosterone levels than asians and commit more violent crime than asians.
High testosterone levels accounts for why blacks add more muscular definition more quickly and easily than whites who in turn bulk up more impressively than asians.
High testosterone levels probably don’t make for family stability, which may be part of the reason why east-asians enjoy more family stability than whites and whites more than blacks.
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* Assuming that he did follow through with his economic proposals, which are still relatively vague, Trump’s policies would be good for deadbeats. Trump plans to greatly devalue the dollar while simultaneously running huge budget deficits in the first year or two of his presidency. Deportation of illegal aliens along with some measured reduction in the trade deficit will cause wage growth to accelerate. NGDP – nominal GDP – will go through the roof. The high inflation will reduce the value of debts and make them easier to pay off.
* According to his own account, Obama was a poor custodian of his own personal finances right up through his election to the Senate.
* You can’t sell cigarettes without getting people hooked, and you can’t make money as a bank unless some sucker takes out a loan from you.
There’s a fundamental problem with low interest rates. If you’re a bank and you’re being paid back at an interest rate of 4%, which is closer to what people had to pay in the 1960s and 1970s, it’s easier to make money than getting paid back at 1% interest rates. Mathematically speaking, if a bank needs X amount of income to survive as a business, they need 4 times the amount of loans out at 1% interest than at 4% interest.
The problem is, there aren’t necessarily 4 times the amount of people out there who are a good idea to lend to. If someone has to pay you back at 4%, a banker is more inclined to be judgmental about who that money is going to and whether they can be trusted to repay it. Low interest rates encourage stupid loans, because banks think even stupid people should be able to pay back at 1%, which isn’t always the case.
If a whole sector of the economy happens to go belly-up at once, banks will be destroyed. Case in point that I’ve been researching: Currently, a lot of banks have massive loans out to fracking and other associated oil industry companies that aren’t going to be paid back. I’ve seen an estimate that between now and September, over 140 companies will start missing payments to banks, and then those companies will begin to go bankrupt. Supposedly, banks have been telling these companies to sell off all their assets down to their office chairs before declaring bankruptcy, because when that happens, it’ll take our banking system down with it. A lot of banks didn’t bother to put aside cash reserves in case these big loans go bad because they never realized the whole fracking sector was going to die at once, and banks haven’t have enough time to build up emergency cash reserves of any significance since the price of gas began to drop.
This will mean another TARP-style bailout is going be necessary to save our banking system, and we’ll almost certainly have a big stock market crash like the one in 2008. Depending on the timing, this is going to be our October Surprise before the election.
Though I sort of relish the thought of all this blowing up in Obama’s face and staining his legacy, I’m not looking forward to the chaos. A stock market crash will deplete the value of pension funds, IRAs, etc., that many middle-class baby boomers are depending on for retirement, and their old age is going to be poorer than they expected. The collapse in gas prices is mostly Obama’s fault in the first place because of his Mideast antics with the Saudis. I hope he gets tarred, feathered, and wacked like a pinata on his way out the White House door.
* I’m a director of a community bank. For years we included in our written lending policy a reference to the “5 C’s of Credit,” which are:
Banks undergo two types of examinations from the regulatory authorities – one for safety and soundness, and the other for compliance with the numerous anti-discrimination and social engineering regulations such as the Community Reinvestment Act. The two types of exams often work at cross purposes, because safety and soundness require discrimination against people with bad credit, while the category of people with bad credit includes a disproportionate number of certified victim groups.
At one of our recent compliance exams the examiners criticized our lending policy because it included the word “character.” Why? Because it was “too subjective.” They wouldn’t say it, but I suspect that they felt it enabled some sort of invidious discrimination. So, we had to amend the policy and remove the reference to character.
That the Obama administration now wants lenders to “use more subjective judgment” is a perfect illustration of the conflict between safety and soundness on one hand, and egalitarian social engineering on the other. Creditworthiness, as reflected by any one of the “5 C’s,” is not equally distributed across all demographics – underwriting loans is an inherently discriminatory activity. Any attempt to deny this is going to end in tears.
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On Monday, students at Indiana University Bloomington mistook a priest for a Ku Klux Klan member, taking to social media to express their fear of the alleged Klansman, who they claimed was carrying a whip, and dressed in “white robes.”
Residential hall advisor Ethan Gill quickly wrote an email to his students, warning them of the “threat” on campus: “There has been a person reported walking around campus in a KKK outfit holding a whip. Because the person is protected under first amendment rights, IUPD cannot remove this person from campus unless an act of violence is committed. Please PLEASE PLEASE be careful out there tonight, always be with someone and if you have no dire reason to be out of the building, I would recommend staying indoors if you’re alone.”
* From his LinkedIn profile: “This past semester I’ve built a community, help support fellow students academically and emotionally, and I’m there to help around the hall whether it be planning and hosting events, participating in meetings, running the center desk, or adding decorations to the hallways or bulletin boards.”
Now he can add, “or warning students to stay indoors and stay safe when white-robed KKK Klansmembers, whether real or imaginary, are freely roaming the campus. “
* Tough shit for all the wussie boys and girls on campus. The nuns who taught me in grammar school were as fearsome as the KKK, and they threatened you with eternal damnation. The Sisters of St. Joseph, my Patron Saint, wore black from head to toe, a head piece that covered all but their face, a knotted rope around their waist and a mile of rosary beads, the rattle of which acted as an early warning system that Sister Whomever was swooping down on you. Heaven help these frightened babies.
* A priest walking through campus, with his hate-beads and his hate-prayer-book? Triggering.
* When you live by the iPad you die by the iPad. Young people today spend so much time and energy engaged in social media that unfounded rumors spread like wildfire. Notice the RA advised against going out of the dorm. Stay inside, it’s dangerous out there!
How else can these hot-house flowers get a reality check if they just cluster indoors and don’t venture out to explore and find out for themselves what’s really going on? You know, NEGATIVE feedback. Which most people think must be BAD because it includes the term NEGATIVE. As in, “don’t be so negative all the time”.
Sometimes negative is a GOOD THING. It prevents systems from oscillating to the point of self destruction.
We’re doomed.
* Isn’t there a throw away line in just about every Woody Allen movie of the last 50 years where Woody’s character is certain that Staten Island, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Boston, UpState Ny….. are full of Nazis, Rednecks and Cossacks?
For example:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Manhattan_(film)
Isaac: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Ya know? I read it in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, ya know, get some bricks and baseball bats, and really explain things to ‘em.
In the movies this paranoia becomes Woody’s excuse for never leaving Manhattan. In real life it pretty much explains the “Pauline Kael world view” effect.
It also explains the Jewish elites obsession with with destroying the Boy Scouts of America through legal actions, first for the BSA’s stand against gay scoutmasters, next for decades old highly dubious allegations of child molestations by Gay scoutmasters.
Because we all know that the BSA is just a neo-nazi front and besides if young Jews go camping with the goyim they will only be ritually sodomized instead of perhaps being merely red pilled as to their family’s yenta’s paranoid delusions.
Best make sure that Jewish children be raised as hot house flowers and attend only kosher & or “progressive” youth programs and summer camps like the ones Sabrina Rubin Erdely of UVA rape hoax fame so widely touts for her precious kids.
Microaggressions are simply “Yentaism” runamuck for POC and the more feeble minded among the goyim.
* Speaking of disco groups like K.C. and the Sunshine Band, I was just now reading up on Chic (Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards), who were huge right after K.C. in the late 1970s (“Le Freak” and “Good Times”). Chic was very influential on the first generation of rappers (e.g., the first Top 40 rap hit in the 1970s, the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” lifts Chic’s “Good Times” riff; and the 1980 #1 rap hit by Blondie, “Rapture,” also uses “Good Times,” while Queen’s 1980 #1 quasi-rap hit “Another One Bites the Dust” lifts the bassline).
But back in the late 1970s I always thought Chic sounded kind of New Wave as well sounding disco. Listening to the KC (two white guys and a bunch of black session musicians) from the mid-1970s, I can hear that Chic was doing something similar to KC in the late 1970s, but their guitar sound was janglier and more alien, kind of like what Johnny Rotten’s PIL was doing in the late 1970s and that U2 perfected in 1981.
And sure enough, it turns out that the first time Rodgers ever heard anybody rapping, in late 1978, it was at a NYC show that he had been invited to by … Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, the wife-husband leaders of the New Wave band Blondie. So the fact that Blondie had the first #1 rap hit turns out to make all sorts of sense.
Soon after Chic played in a show with Blondie and the Clash, who were living in New York in the second half of 1979, and the Clash released their own rap song in late 1980, “Magnificent Seven.” (I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some direct connection to Talking Heads, who released their own rap song in 1980, “Crosseyed & Painless.”)
Reading up on Nile Rodgers, I see that his stepfather was a Jewish beatnik drug addict in NYC. So it’s not surprising that black rap and white new wave were closely linked 35 years ago.
Here’s a 1981 bootleg recording of a concert with Blondie / Chic / Fab Five doing a version of Good Times / Rapture / Rapper’s Delight.
So it turns out that 35 years ago, people got the joke, but now it all sounds like Verboten Cultural Appropriation.
From Wikipedia:
“In late 1978, Debbie Harry suggested that Chic’s Nile Rodgers join her and Chris Stein at a hip hop event, which at the time was a communal space taken over by teenagers with boombox stereos playing various pieces of music that performers would break dance to. Rodgers experienced this event the first time himself at a high school in the Bronx. On September 20, 1979, and September 21, 1979, Blondie and Chic were playing concerts with The Clash in New York at The Palladium. When Chic started playing “Good Times”, rapper Fab Five Freddy and the members of the Sugarhill Gang (“Big Bank Hank” Jackson, Mike Wright, and “Master Gee” O’Brien), jumped up on stage and started freestyling with the band. A few weeks later Rodgers was on the dance floor of New York club Leviticus and heard the DJ play a song which opened with Bernard Edwards’ bass line from Chic’s “Good Times”. Rodgers approached the DJ who said he was playing a record he had just bought that day in Harlem. The song turned out to be an early version of “Rapper’s Delight”, which also included a scratched version of the song’s string section. Rodgers and Edwards immediately threatened legal action over copyright, which resulted in a settlement and their being credited as co-writers.[5] Rodgers admitted that he was originally upset with the song, but later declared it to be “one of his favorite songs of all time” and his favorite of all the tracks that sampled (or in this instance interpolated) Chic[6][better source needed]. He also stated: “As innovative and important as ‘Good Times’ was, ‘Rapper’s Delight’ was just as much, if not more so.”[7] “Rapper’s Delight” is said to be the song that popularized rap music and put it into the mainstream.[citation needed].”
* According to Rogers, it was Disco’s increasing elitism and overt gayness that killed the genre, not necessarily racism, homophobia or even Steve Dahl. Early rappers simply learned to cater to young people who could not afford, or were not stylish enough, to get into the hottest clubs.
Meanwhile Mutt Lange helped AC/DC to a huge hit with “You Shook Me All Night Long” by giving it a beat even uncoordinated white guys who thought disco was for fags could manage enough liquid courage to ask a girl to dance to.
Chic’s repertoire, especially “Good Times” along with Tony Thompson’s beats are pretty much rap sampling staples to this day.
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Martin van Creveld writes: Women’s inferiority to men in respect to physical strength, aerobic capacity, endurance and, above all, robustness, is obvious to all. The price is paid by their male colleagues; when a female trainee in a mixed unit breaks down, as often happens, guess who is going to carry her and/or her weapons and pack? But the price women have paid for serving in “combat” units has been much higher. Many of the documents in question are classified so as to avoid angering Israeli feminists, an aggressive and often obnoxious lot, by presenting them with the facts. Some, however, have been published by a former student of mine, Colonel (ret.) Raz Sagi.
The picture that emerges is not pretty. Less than 3 percent of IDF “combat troops” are female. However, over the last few years they, or the lawyers acting in their name, have served 10-15 percent of the suits concerning compensation for injuries suffered while on “operational activity” (whatever that may mean). In proportion to their numbers, women sue three to five times more often than men. Sagi’s book bristles with interviews with young women who served as, or trained for, “combat” MOS and were seriously injured, sometimes for life. Such cases are brought before the courts almost every day.
Now let’s take a closer look at what “combat” actually entails. The largest group, 442 out of 1,593, serve in three mixed battalions named “Caracal,” “Leopard,” and “Lions of the Jordan” respectively. In each of these they form 60 percent of the total. What all three have in common is that they are permanently deployed along the borders with Egypt and Jordan. Those in turn have this in common that, over the last forty years, they have seen hardly a shot fired in anger. The remaining women are divided between “combat intelligence collection” (meaning that they look for all kinds of interesting things after the battle is over), border police (meaning that they stand guard against terrorists, as Hadar Cohen, who was mentioned on this blog a few weeks ago, did), civil defense, and artillery.
It so happened that, a day after I completed this article, I watched a clip of artillery troops on a route march. The men, heavily loaded with equipment of all kinds, sweated, grunted and did their best to keep up. One or two female soldiers were marching along, carrying a much smaller pack and looking as if they were on a lark. Whatever they may have been doing there, clearly they were not being tested as the men were.
Neither the infantry, nor the armored corps, nor the engineers, nor the special units, which between them form the bulk of the IDF’s “teeth,” have any women at all. Scant wonder that, during Operation Protective Edge back in the summer of 2014, out of 66 Israeli troops who died not one was female.
Meanwhile the terminology has been changing. Having just celebrated my seventieth birthday, I can remember the time when the term lohem, meaning fighter or warrior, used to be the highest compliment anyone in Israel could receive. Nine cases out of ten, it referred to a soldier, a male one of course, who actually fired at, and was fired on by, the enemy. Now its female form, lohemet, also refers to all the above units, not one of which are meant to face an armed and trained enemy soldier able to fire back. Scant wonder that, in popular slang, the plural form of lohemet, lohamot, is often explained as meaning lo-hamot, “not-hot.”
Why does all this matter? For four reasons. First, as the term “not hot” implies, in Israel as in all other modern countries armed forces the presence of women has contributed to the decline in the prestige of those forces and, with it, their ability to attract high-quality male manpower. Presumably that is why the “Lions” (arayot, in Hebrew) battalion, in spite of being made up mostly of women, is not called leviot “Lionesses.” Or else surely any proper man would have shot himself rather than serve in it.
Second, in Israel as in all other modern countries that presence has led to “gender norming” and, with it, falling standards which, in case of war, could be dangerous. Third, as the above figures show, too many women who, whether out of idealism or sheer penis envy, volunteer to serve in “combat” units are injured, with bad consequences both for themselves and, since they have to be paid pensions, the defense budget. Fourth, outside Israel quite some people, being misinformed about the true state of affairs, still take the IDF as an example to follow.
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Ironically, the anti-German argument for why Germany must take in millions of Muslims only makes sense using racialist logic:
– Either the German people are tainted by hereditary blood guilt for their ancestors’ crimes for which they must pay reparations to random Muslims; *
– Or Germans are so genetically fearsome that the threat they pose to the rest of the world must be diluted by mass migration;
– Or the innate destiny of we Germans is to rule Europe (and perhaps the world), so letting in the million Muslim mob is our brilliant PR feint to cover up the emerging New Order.
If you don’t actually believe that today’s Germans possess either hereditary guilt or hereditary superiority, then it’s hard to logically justify the Merkel government’s whim.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* The point seems to be that the new coalition of the fringes Germany now belongs to everyone but traditional Germans.
* The thing with the Germans that nobody seems to mention is they live in the ghetto of Europe, Mitteleuropa. At least compared to the snooty Brits and the oh-so-noble Americans with their English channel and 3000 mile Atlantic ocean, the Germans have enemies right across the river.
The Germans were forced into militarism by their neighborhood.
First Charlemagne came along in 782 and beheaded 4,500 Saxons(180,000 in today’s population) because they were not sufficiently Christian and loving like Charlemagne. Then in the Thirty years War, 1618-1648, the Great powers, like fearsome Sweden ran all over the many ununited little principalities forcing the Germans to drink Schwedentrunk and reveal where their daughters and their cows were hidden. The Germans lost a third of their male population.
They had to unite and be bad asses merely to be left alone.Thank Gott for the Prussians.The Germans finally get it together in the middle of the 1800s and then the Brits pitch a fit because they can’t have a strong continental power. WTF?
So we win WWI for the Brits, the Germans are pissed they got robbed of their time in the sun on the continent and they go with Adolf Ragnarok, they get carpet bombed back into Morganthau wilderness by Bomber Harris and now they end up as the depository of all the Guilt in the world. Its been going on for 72 years and we still have 36,000 troops there to keep the frothing Hun from bayoneting more babies.
All because they live in a lousy neighborhood.
* Former German vice Chancellor and foreign affairs minister Josef “Joschka” Fischer:
“Germans are just too smart and industrious and will therefore always provoke their neighbour’s jealousy. To keep the peace in Europe Germany has to be fenced from the outside and diluted from the inside.”
The man also taught as a guest professor at an elite USA university – Albright got him the job – despite never having finished high school.
* I’m not sure if it’s guilt as much as it is the combination of
1. The belief that all people and cultures are the same and therefore assimilable
2. That it’s racist to not think 1. Is true (which is why the opposition to her insane scheme is so muted) and
3. That Europe’s leaders don’t want to end up where East Asian countries are headed demographically so they’ll bring in millions of foreigners to avoid dealing spiritually and economically with the fact that they are on a path to extinction
As James Burnham pointed out, liberalism is not necessarily the cause of Western decline but it is the ideology that a great civilization has adopted to rationalize and cope with its suicide and portray each step towards death as a victory instead.
* Steve: You might try the Allies just after WW2 if you want to hear someone say quite a lot of that stuff you describe. They were quite vehement then on the point that blood guilt for Hitler falls on all Germans as a collective responsibility for which collective blame and punishment shall be assigned. Early occupation and pacification orders included instructions to make sure living conditions in Germany were the worst, to be explicit about how the Germans were being occupied not liberated, to break every institution that might ever make Germany fearsome again.
* Nothing about US foreign policy in the Middle East makes sense except that it has been captured by the Israel-lobby. How exactly does American benefit from a stable secular regime in Syria being overrun by salafists augmented by international brigades with passports that have automatic no 30-day no visa entry requirements for the US? How does prolonging an ethnic civil war work unless you don’t care about the outcome except to destroy the country it’s happening in.
Syria only makes sense from the perspective of Israel wishing to see the last functioning state in the levant being broken. Is it a serious strategic threat? No, but they’ve run out of better targets and they’re not paying the bills or shouldering the burden either. They’re continuously pushing against an open door. It’s like the quote from the IRA, reasonable people in the US government have to stop them every time to win, the Israel lobby only has to win once and the USAF or CIA proxies turn their target to dust. And since there is never a consequence for their failure. Ie, there was no punishment meted out to the people in the media, defence and state department for pushing for an insane confrontation with Iran, they’re free to try again and again. Eventually a president insufficiently appalled at a war with Iran will be weak and need some favours and boom, Western Persia turns into a sheet of glass and god knows what the consequences for the rest of the world will be.
* Ironically, very few, if any, Jews framed it in such terms. In fact, the vast majority of die-hard Zionists that I’ve read immediately said that Merkel’s idea was horrible and that it would destroy Germany.
* What possessed Merkel to do what she did, and why western Europe, the United States, and Canada seem helpless to say no to people whose large-scale migration is becoming self-evidently more disastrous every day, will be the debate of Russian and Chinese historians for the next 300 years. It may be as complex a case of mass psychosis as has ever existed in our species.
* And it was Merkel who just last year declared that multiculturalism was a flawed idea. But then her inner-Christian, that still, small voice buried deep in her soul, rose up and got the better of her.
* AIPAC, who were continually pushing for US intervention in Syria, went apeshit when Obama decided not to bomb Assad after the fake false-flag chemical attack in 2012, which the neocons tried to pin on Assad. Hirsch later also illuminated that shady operation. That was the first time I was impressed with Obama and Kerry. They managed to see through all the BS, and had the guts to grab the lifeline which Lavrov/Putin threw them. Very statesmanlike. The other good move was the Iran deal, which put the pet AIPAC Iran-bomb hoax to rest.
* In my experience, Germans need to be a part of a cause bigger than themselves. They don’t do well with just regular life; their morbid nature starts to get the upper hand so they latch on to a movement that will pull them up from their depression.
When I lived in Germany, they were all very intense (much more so than your average American) about some cause or the other, environmentalism, saving the third world, world peace, etc. The causes had the commonality that they were somewhat vague and could never really be achieved. Again, it wasn’t the results that they were after but an escape.
This whole refugee episode seems to be just another example of Germans being Germans.
* I’m not even sure that Israel was really all that eager to get rid of Assad, even in a “who will rid me of this troublesome priest” sense. Assad was a thorn in their side in that he cooperated with Iran in supplying Hezbollah and in building a nuclear reactor but as far as the actual Syrian-Israeli border was concerned, Assad was pretty scrupulous (because it was in his interest not to provoke a stronger enemy, not because he is a scrupulous guy) about maintaining peace with Israel. Israel knows that in a place like the Middle East, the next Pharaoh may be even worse than the bad Pharaoh you just got rid of – they were under no “Arab Spring” delusions. Whatever you say about Assad, he seems to be a pretty sane and rational guy by ruthless dictator standards. Saddam Hussein and Qwadafii had a tendency to take things too far and believe their own BS, but Assad does not try to overplay his hand.
* Ariel Sharon counseled Bush NOT to invade. Of course, AIPAC wanted Saddam gone but then Jews in the US who are neoconservative are pretty much opposite the Likud people in Israel. Likud wanted Saddam as a counterbalance to Threat #1, Iran. These are the choices of small nations threatened by neighbors — not much room for moral absolutism.
Merkel is flooding Europe with Muslims because she is a Christian. That is what Christianity is all about — and as the daughter of a pastor she’s as Christian as the Pope. Who also wants this. Christianity has the doctrine of universal brotherhood, preference for the refugee (as Christ was), a moral elect and eternally damned who are both predestined (in the Calvinist sense) and universal utopianism. Christianity was the garden from which both Marxism and Multiculturalism as religions arose, as Peter Frost noted.
Merkel is just another aging, post menopausal White women overcome with religious feeling and HATE HATE HATE of her beta male White peers. That the rapefugees are mostly young Muslim men swaggering around is just a lady part thrill to mix in with the moral superiority.
* The existence of that monstrosity known as the EU must bear a large portion of the blame.
Basically, the EU forbids member states to deter or remove anyone from anywhere who can utter the word ‘asylum’. And all the world and his brother have wised up to that fact.
Not only has the EU forbidden its vassal states from even attempting to stop ‘migrants’ it has dissolved borders between EU states. Thus Greece’s problem – which doubtless the colonels of 1968 could have solved in a weekend – becomes Germany’s problem.
Add in lavish social security and welfare bennies – including a free house for life – available in demand to ‘refugees’ who haven’t done a damned thing to earn. Again, all the world and his brother knows this.
Drizzle with a dollop of Swedish feminists addled brain nuttiness – theirs was the initial ‘idea’ that any warm body that wished to could live the good life in jolly good cold and dark old Sweden.
Add one menopausal, broody, mushy brained old bag. An old bag with Gorbachev type vanity and stupidity eagerly eyeing a Nobel prize and a bundle of lucrative directorships upon ejection.
And lastly dump in a great big pile of Economist steaming, stinky faecal waste, to add ‘gravitas’ and pungency.
And there you have it – destroying a nation through committee.
* Most people don’t realize that the cultural support for mass immigration in America includes the stick as well as the carrot.
The carrot: it feels good to help other people who are less fortunate, doesn’t it? America has infinite goodness and infinite money, we can invite all of these people in, especially the ones who can’t help themselves. A generous heart never counts the cost. Even if you can’t have children yourself (lots of feminists never finish their punchlist), you can be like childless Mother Merkel and welcome the refugee children of the world (even if a lot of them are working age men). Be open, forgiving, generous, helpful. Doesn’t it feel good?
The stick: America’s Original Sin is slavery, says the President of the United States, and everybody knows who he means. All of the white men in America are guilty, guilty, guilty regardless of what their actual ancestors were doing. There is no redemption for this Original Sin; no American Jesus who died for you. Reparations are only fair, but as Ta-Nehisi tells us, they will never be enough. Sin with no possibility of redemption – is there any way out for white men? Unlike most religious traditions, suicide is actually the recommended way out.
National suicide. Expunge the northern European heritage that also includes the blood guilt of the history of the Americas, the genocide of the native people and the economic slavery of the hispanic people. Welcome the black / brown nation, assuage your guilt, tear down the barriers, destroy the white men and all their works. Wash yourself clean with a flood of black and brown, America.
Whenever you see the carrot, look around for the stick. There’s always a stick.
* That’s a lot of mental yoga there when in fact this has very little to do with blood guilt. What blood guilt does Sweden have, or the Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK, US, Canada, etc?
What joins all these countries isn’t blood guilt — it’s that they descend from a common Northwestern European stock and are in the end stages of a successful capitalist strategy that’s brought material wealth and easy living to their citizens. National, religious, and ethnic identities have broken as people now identify more with their careers / class and generally see themselves as actors on a global stage. Meanwhile there is zero thinking around HBD type issues and Blank Slate-ism prevails. So now barring 3rd world citizens from your country seems wrong, while letting them in seems like the moral, Christian thing to do. ‘They’re just like us and deserve a shot at a good life too, no?’
Germany is leading the most recent rally because Germany: they lead everything in the EU, and generally Germans have extreme dispositions which steer them to the logical endpoints of whatever path or policy they are currently taking.
* The bourgeois of the civilized world tend to even subconsciously obscure blood connections so the frame of reference is not so much heredity but historical/cosmic processes. So #1 and #2 from a bourgeois white pov is seen through those filters in this way:
1. Atonement — Trains in Germany once transported Jews to death camps; now the trains bring refugees from war zones to Germany for refugee. That’s cosmic justice and taking in a million refugees is restoration of the moral universe.
2. It can never happen again — The historical roots of the disasters that befell Europe in the aftermath of WWI and WWII are the dual evils of nationalism and racism. Therefore to prevent the causes of those disasters is a counter reaction against root causes. If WWII happened because racist ideology held the superior Nordic race deserved to rule the world, conquer Eastern Europe, and multiple, then the appropriate counter reaction is extinguishing Nordicism: non-whites must be brought into Nordic lands and race mixing should be encouraged so that the Nordic race disappears and the conquering impulse relinquished.
So there is still heredity at play in this way of thinking but it’s not the main structure of elite ideological thinking.
* If the Nazis never happened, then there would not be the reflex adverse reaction to anything that is not an extreme rejection of all things Nazi. So today it would be ok for European countries to want to keep their own individual ethnicities. It would be ok to not want a flood of third world refugees whose culture is incompatible with Europe. It would be considered crazy to allow masses of lowly educated people with a backward culture to immigrate.
But not all the blame should be placed on the Nazis. Part of the blame goes on the victorious allies for being overly sanctimonious and actually believing themselves when they declared that they “saved” western civilization. Ever since then they have been actively destroying western civilization in a much more permanent way and in a way that the Nazis could have never imagined.
* If Germany must be punished, then Mongolia should be incinerated. And then Sub-Saharan Africa, for slavery. Then all the Muslims, for their barbaric practice of castrating their slaves.
* Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
By Ralph Lopez Jan 26, 2015 in World
Becoming the first credentialed, well-known media insider to step forward and state publicly that he was secretly a “propagandist,” an editor of a major German daily has claimed that he personally planted stories for the CIA.
* I think a problem is people see how angry and vulgar people can be about this issue, partly because respectable people can’t talk about these things. We all want to be nice and respectable but what we know about the world makes that hard, try as we might we can’t go along with our new religion. So some cope by finding ways to separate themselves from ‘those people’, talking about ‘culture’ and assimilation and others cope by adopting this weird anti-Islam = pro-Israel stance. But just because unpleasant people hate Jews doesn’t mean that there isn’t a serious cohort of Jews in America who are zionists who do affect US policy in the Middle East. Thus we get ‘lol you guys always blame the joos’. The last 15 to 20 years has seen the Neo-cons very effectively co-opt the US State Department, Victoria Nuland being an almost parody of a neo-con.
1. Yes, Norway, Ireland and Sweden’s immigration policy and multiculturalism was entirely developed indigenously has been in no way influenced by the US. I think Americans underestimate how influential it is, American media and elite opinion matters in Sweden, at least to the Swedish elite. The United States was the most powerful country in the world and decided that anti-racism was the great You do not need an alienated ethnic elite in your country to feed you ‘anti-racism’ in TV, film and other media. The internet has driven this up to 11, being dominated by American. You think these ideas spontaneously took root? Modern Academic Sociology, the priesthood of this new religion is an almost entirely American field.
2. I can’t speak to why anyone was ever foolish or naive enough to think this is what thought helping Iraq looks like.
I’m pretty sure the vast majority of people who were pro war were all fully onboard with killing arabs, for different motivations perhaps, but invading a country after a heavy bombing campaign is rarely done out of concern for it’s inhabitants.
Once again, the people who start and propose these wars don’t believe any of that. They might convince others to believe it, but those people don’t start the wars, they’re just useful idiots.
3. Declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel would do nothing. The Israeli government was ethnically cleansing it at apparently just the right rate not to ever bring serious pressure to bare and would do so afterward. It is a bizzarre decision because East Jerusalem was always supposed to be the capital of the Palestinian state. Recognising the entire city as the capital of Israel would end the ability of the US to even broker the (Admittedly farcical) two state solution talks. One of my favourite clips is the clear rigging of the vote at the DNC convention on changing the policy of the Democratic party on this issue. Whom was Villaraigosa afraid of? There were about equal numbers for and against…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2sWTwbzAcw&t=0m51s
The Neo-Cons exist and make explicit their ideology. Hell, even Wolf Blitzer was once the head PR man for the Israel military in DC. Why did Clinton, Saunders and Trump (Even missing a debate) all go to the AIPAC conference, you know that annual event that average Americans care so much about?
If there is no powerful Israel lobby why are American politicians so terrified of it?
* Nazis are seen as the inheritors of many ideas that were robust in Western countries leading up to WWII. Racial science and nationalism. So the reaction now is against Nazism but also a repudiation of many of the dominant ideas of the early 20th century.
* “European countries who are doing the same, or worse, and you find no correlation whatsoever between pro-immigration policies and Jewish power/support for Israel.”
Except that we know Blair followed Bush into war with Iraq, against the wishes of the people. There is quite a large groundswell of opinion that Blair should stand trial for war crimes. And the ME massacre started with Iraq.
Except also that the voices in the media who advocate immigration are very often Jewish and so are those that support Israel. Maureen Lipman for instance overstepped the mark with her pro-Israel stance. Nowadays we even have an infiltration of Americans telling Brits what to think and how to vote.
Except also that the media never mentions Israel – a country that borders the region of civil war, does that not strike you as strange? And the public mention Israel very rarely but when they do, the big AS label is immediately brought out by a plethora of Jewish people complaining. And don’t forget Europeans can get a criminal record for being deemed AS. That’s a huge disincentive to open debate.
Every media portrayal of the KKK that I remember painted it as a horrible organization.
I don’t share this view. What is wrong with people standing up for maintaining sovereignty of the country their ancestors created? The KKK wants to keep WASPs in charge of America. What’s so horrible about that? That they might use violence to further their aims also makes sense because often the only way to maintain sovereignty is through violence. How do you think Israel was established? Jews used violence to establish and defend the Jewish state.
All groups are engaged in a fierce struggle for scarce resources such as land, water, and power. Most Israelis, for instance, wish that all Palestinians disappear. Most Muslims wish that the Jewish state would disappear. What person with the slightest self-awareness does not understand the desire to subjugate your enemies? The KKK aimed to intimidate outside groups so that they would not behave in ways contrary to the interests of WASPs. What’s so shocking?
If you hate your enemies, you naturally want them to disappear. That’s how it has always been in human history. The KKK didn’t invent genocide or even carry it out. It was never a mass murder machine. How many deaths in America can be laid at the feet of the KKK? A few thousand? As many in a century as Muslim terrorists caused on 9/11?
Every thinking person has a KKK approach to life (intimidation and subjugation of their enemies) just under the surface. It doesn’t require heroic efforts of moral imagination to put yourself in their shoes. From the perspective of Palestinians, Jews are poison. From the perspective of Jewish Israelis, Palestinians are poison. From the perspective of groups hurt by the creation of a Jewish state, Jews are poison. From the perspective of groups hurt by Muslims, Muslims are poison. From the perspective of Tibetans, Chinese are poison. From the perspective of the Chinese, the Japanese are poison. From the perspective of the aborigines, white Australia is poison.
“We need a new lexicon in Hebrew and so we need to add ‘Jewish terror’ to the dictionary,” Ami Ayalon, the director of the Shin Bet from 1996 to 2000, says in a deliberate manner, choosing each word carefully.
He has a baritone voice and a clear passion for this issue. “Maybe, maybe, maybe, the murder last week will wake us up to the fact that it is not a hate crime, it is not ‘wild weeds,’ it is terror and it is Jewish terror. It seeks to change the government,” he says, referring to the killing of Ali Dawabsha in the Palestinian village of Duma.
Since the burning of the Dawabsha home and an adjoining residence on the night of July 30, Israeli society has been convulsed by internal soul-searching.
In an impassioned speech to thousands in Tel Aviv, Nasser Dawabsha described the burning of his sister-in-law’s home.
“My brother Sa’ed and his wife Riham caught on fire. Despite the burns, Sa’ed carried his four-year-old son Ahmed outside the house. Riham grabbed a blanket, she thought that the child Ali was in the blanket. But they learned the child wasn’t in the blanket.”
He recalled her crying, “‘Where is Ali?’” He called on the IDF to find the killers, and for the Palestinian people to “get our freedom.”
Duma sits on a ridgeline about 15 kilometers southeast of Nablus near Route 458. In more pleasant times one might enjoy the view here over the pastoral hills that lead down to the Jordan Valley.
Now the village displays large posters with the picture of murdered Ali.
Last Saturday, protesters clashed with Israeli police and soldiers on the road leading to the village. Tear gas was fired, the empty canisters littering the road.
The sign to the village had been covered partly with a poster of Ali.
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki announced that the PA would file suit with the International Criminal Court about this murder and what the PA said were more than 120 attacks by Israeli Jews on Palestinians in the West Bank.
Israeli society came together last week to condemn both the attack in Duma and the stabbing attack at the Gay Pride Parade on July 30. Shira Banki, 16, died of her wounds Sunday after the attack.
“The flames are spreading in our land, flames of violence, hatred and of false, distorted and twisted beliefs,” President Reuven Rivlin said to a large crowd gathered in Jerusalem rallying against violence.
But how to confront those responsible is not clear.
Jerusalem Report 2014: Ku Klux Klan faction offers membership to Jews and other minorities
A faction of the Christian-terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), will now open its membership to Jews, African Americans, Hispanics and gay people.
The notoriously racist white-supremacist group has decided to undergo a re-branding to expand its reach and mission. They will leave behind their legacy of burning crosses, lynching African Americans and committing other horrific racist attacks.
The new, more expansive group, known as “The Rocky Mountain Knights,” is meant to be a subsection of the KKK, based in Montana in the United States.
John Albarr, a KKK member from Great Falls, Montana, spearheaded the re-branding effort after reportedly having discussions with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His goal is that the new group will help to create a stronger and better America.
“White supremacy is the old Klan. This is the new Klan,” Albarr said, adding: “It thought it was a really good organization. I don’t feel we need to be separate.”
Despite this supposed re-branding, all members of Albarr’s “Rocky Mountain Knights” will have to wear the KKK’s traditional white robes, masks, and pointed hats– a uniform that historically conjured images of hate, persecution and terror.
It is unclear how many members this new sect of the KKK has.
In 2011, Abarr attempted to run for the Montana seat in the US House of Representatives as a Republican, with the goal of “saving the White race” on his manifesto. As a result, Albarr was denounced by other mainstream Republicans for his racist attitudes and political views.
The KKK is a protestant Christian organization considered to have an extreme right-wing political stance. It is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League.
When the KKK was first founded in 1865, after the American Civil War, they called for the purification of society and the elimination of non-white races.
Doesn’t every exclusive group look down on outsiders and maintain strong barriers against them?
Every victimhood contains a nationalism and every nationalism contains the capacity for genocide.
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* What a terrific reveal of the thinking of young asian-americans! Their voting patterns certainly suggested as much, but it’s becoming pretty clear that asians hate Whites even more than NAMs, but given their higher IQs (relative to NAMs) are much more classy about it. And of course they have swank degrees from cool schools to camouflage everything. This Chang guy’s fantasy world involves butchering Whites on a mass scale. Fantastic. He’s little different from the Korean guy with that Gagnam Style song a couple of years back who couldn’t say enough bad things about the US. The buggers jsut hate us Whites a lot. Could it be that too many American servicemen took too many liberties with these guys’ mothers and grandmothers on the Peninsula in the last 65 years. The Jews have their ancient grudges involving “exclusive” golf courses. At least the Koreans’ seems a little more understandable.
So much for Derbyshire’s alliance of the “Ice People”.
That’s why Steve’s coalition of the fringes argument isn’t very good. What unifies all non-Whites is their hatred of Whites. Asians hate us Whites a lot more than they fear AA or Blacks “dating” their daughters.
* You can tell this is a snow job by the fact that he lists a bunch of “boring” baseball superstars without mentioning the counterexample of Bryce Harper, the white Mormon reigning MVP with a highly colorful personality who is the biggest star in the game right now.
* Kang wrote probably the worst bit of Millennial* navel-gazing in this article that is ostensibly “about” Ichiro:
As a Mariners fan who liked Bill Simmons, I was excited that Grantland was doing a feature on Ichiro, but then bummed to find out that it was a feature on Jay Caspian Kang.
*I am a Millennial, so I’m free to gripe about this.
* Suppose I migrated to Asia or Africa and complained about the unbearable dominant human color in either place because it ia what it is – though changing for sure – in the U.S. and Europe – but not fast enough? The New York Times and mainstream media generally are owned and operated by whom and with what agendas? Is “white” in the way of those recently come to considerable power in the West? In the way of what? These are questions that should be asked openly and answered truthfully. Why aren’t they? Bad for business? Whose business? What if I migrated to “Israel” – or would I not be allowed? Why not? I pay taxes to help support that country. These are valid questions, are they not?
* “Mauer has probably made 10-15 times more money in baseball than he would have in the NFL.”
There are so many factors that make this true:
1. Baseball careers last longer, due both to injuries and the fact that skill is more important than pure athleticism.
2. Baseball has 10 times as many games in a season, which means way more tickets and hours of live TV programming to sell.
3. Baseball’s players’ union is stronger, because the players are not as desperate for an immediate payday and can wait out a strike, as compared to NBA and NFL players, for demographic reasons.
4. In fact factors 1 and 2 compound into factor 3 because they know most of them can look forward to a few more years of paychecks.
5. Baseball you can start making money right out of high school. NFL you have to be three years out.
* That CBS article mentions that MLB has the most minority managers.
It should be pointed out that baseball is the major sport where the head coach has the least impact on outcomes. MLB teams can take a flier on a well-liked guy who is kind of a flake, like Ron Washington. But football coaches have to be Belichek/Saban types, because that’s the only way you can win.
* Vladimir Guerrero got his big payday in 2004 from the SoCal Angels owner Arte Moreno, the billboard king who is a genuine self-made Mexican American billionaire (the only one, last I checked). Moreno pays a lot for Spanish-speaking superstars like Albert Pujols — part of his strategy is to win away the Los Angeles Dodgers Mexican-American fanbase.
One problem with Moreno’s strategy, however, is that the best Spanish-speaking ballplayers tend to be part-black Caribbeans like Guerrero and Pujols rather than mestizo Mexicans. The Dodgers cemented their hold on Mexican-Americans back in the 1980s with Fernando Valenzuela, a tubby but heroic highly Indio Mexican pitcher. They also got a few years out of East L.A. product Nomar Garciaparra, and now they have a solid first baseman in Adrian Gonzalez, a Mexican-American born in California. So the Dodgers still have done better at representing Mexican-Americans so far.
* The problem with a baseball career is you have to have specific skills rather than just all around athletic talent. For example Toby Gerhart, the runner up for the Heisman in 2009, was a decent college baseball player at Stanford, but his college batting statistics suggested he just wouldn’t get his bat on the ball at the major league level often enough to make use of his strength and speed. So he went to the NFL and backed up Adrian Peterson at running back.
* One thing he overlooks is virtually all umpires are white.
Umpires can play with the outcome of a game, like the 2011 world series when they refused to strike out Cardinals players until they scored a hit.
* Ta-Nehisi Coates made the front page of the Boston Globe today…for guest writing a comic book.
Let me just say that Coates isn’t doing anything new; many “nerdy” celebrities have guest-written a comic book for a while. Kevin Smith was a big one who did a Batman and a Green Arrow, but others have as well. It’s a gimmick marketing ploy and produces the typical subpar fair you’d expect when a celebrity in one field is given creative control in another field simply for the celebrity name value.
Normally, such a gimmick is given little publicity, since it’s largely cheap attention-whoring, like having hot chicks work your booth at a comic convention. But Coates gets front page of the Boston Globe, a paper he doesn’t write for, and an alleged “serious” paper than just had an Oscar-winning movie made about its “work” (Spotlight).
Man, to be black and whiny and to know the right people….
Too bad that still won’t make him any less of a disappointment and embarrassment to his father.
* So, basically, he figured out that no one much cares about an Asian man writing about his inner turmoil over his “Asianness,” unless he masks it with a lot of faux concern about Blacks….
* Or, perhaps the market incentives in the American media merely encourage ambitious Asian-American verbalists like Seoul Brother #1 to dwell publicly on how much they hate whites as a way to justify rule by the Coalition of the Fringes?
* While in high school college football recruiters were salivating over the prospect of Alex Rodriguez as a college qb. He was said to have a cannon arm. Instead he opted for baseball. The steroid controversy notwithstanding, he clearly made the right choice.
* Baseball isn’t nearly as punishing on the body as football, so baseball players tend to play longer. I remember thinking at the time Bo Jackson was crazy for playing both football and baseball instead of just the latter, and sure enough, after just four years he was seriously injured playing football. He did manage to play baseball for a few more years, but I’ll bet even with all the extra look-he-plays-both-sports endorsement money whether he would have been better off financially (not to mention physically) just playing baseball.
* As a baseball player on the major league level, Michael Jordan was a total bust. Ted Williams once said that the single most difficult act in sports is to make solid contact with a round bat on a round ball being thrown with “movement” at between 90 and 100 mph. Notwithstanding that he may have been the greatest hitter who ever lived, even Williams was successful only 34% of the time. In terms of skill sets, basketball, football and hockey simply pale in comparison.
* The talk about baseball ratings skewing white male is not a bad thing for baseball economics.
Blacks and hispanics have less money, watch more TV, and watch even more commercials by being less likely to have commercial avoiding techs and premium channels. Those factors combined make the attention of a white male to an advertiser about 5 times more valuable than a black or hispanic male.
* The fact that the NYT even published this article shows its low quality (in absolute terms… I know it’s still high-quality relative to the abysmal quality of most publications). In my ideal world, the editor would have called Kang up and said “You know Guerrero has chosen to never learn English, right? Do you really think anyone but Guerrero is to blame for his lack of fame in the US? If you send me another garbage pieve like this then you will never see one word of yours published in the NYT. You understand me, son?”
* I don’t think I’ve ever read a newspaper column or op-ed piece by a Korean-American journalist that wasn’t all about castigating whitey for his “racism” and trying to suck up to blacks. Korean-American journalists must win the prize for having the most boringly limited repertoire of any writers. Even black journalists exhibit more variety in their subject matter.
* Several NFL QBs like Russell Wilson and Brandon Weeden tried to play baseball and couldn’t get out of the minor leagues.
* Basketball is a close second, but basketball players still have to coordinate their actions during the game in a way that baseball players don’t. Baseball really is a mostly individual sport masquerading as a team sport. That’s why the baseball All-Star Game is, apart from all of the substitutions, played basically the same way as a regular game, while the NBA All-Star Game bears almost no resemblance to normal basketball, and the NFL Pro Bowl even less so.
The season prior to Kerr’s arrival with the Warriors, they had basically the same personnel and won 62% of their games. Since he was hired, they’ve won 85% of the time and will probably have two championships in two years. It shouldn’t be counted against Kerr that the system he put in place works so well that his assistant could run it to perfection during his absence. Plus there’s no way to know whether Luke Walton might be a great coach in his own right.
* Danny Ainge was at one time a two-sport guy, but couldn’t manage to achieve an acceptable MLB batting average. One story indicated that he was encouraged to leave the Toronto Blue Jays by an unusual message. It seems that there may have been a basketball thrown from the stands toward him in the outfield to suggest full-time relocation to the NBA. O, Canada.
* Turgid prose completely disconnected from reality? Check. Oh so serious attitude about an oh so serious subject? Check. I predict this young man will go far. But not far enough to suit me.
* Coach [Steve] Kerr comes from a family of WASP Arabists who helped found the premiere educational institution in the Middle East, the American University of Beirut. When I was at UCLA in the early 1980s, his father Malcolm Kerr had a nice job as UCLA’s Vice-Chancellor. But then Dr. Kerr quit to go back to Beirut in the middle of the civil war to rebuild the American University. He was assassinated there by some terrorist in 1984.
* It is sort of interesting that we are forever being told of the impending hispanic surge in America as they are ratcheting up their percentage of the population. They have now grown to 20 percent of the population and are possibly headed to 50%. The one game hispanics seem to participate in proportion to their numbers is baseball. Whether baseball embraces its hispanic stars or not, at least baseball has hispanic stars. Football and basketball have very, very few hispanic stars.
If anything baseball is diverse and more accurately represents the US population. Football and especially basketball do not.
BTW baseball does try to attract hispanics. Each year my local team has a special Viva Los Royals night that caters to our hispanic community. They also have a Los Royals website that is written in Spanish.
Football and basketball might be more popular at the moment, but baseball seems to have the demographics behind it. If the US is going to become part of Latin America it would appear that baseball and soccer are going to be the big games.
Maybe tomorrow the NYT can do a story about how football and basketball need to identify and nurture young hispanic talent so as to better diversify. But like you have pointed out before, the liberals only seem to be interested in uplifting blacks. Hispanics don’t really matter except for their potential at the ballot box. And as we’ve been told, they’ve been a great disappointment consistently punching below their weight.
* Asians are copiers. The overwhelming social dynamic in America in media and education (at all levels) is the SJW. Americanized Asians, hence, become SJWs. And since they have little religion, their religious impulses go towards Social Justice, which coincides PERFECTLY with their real religion, which is status climbing.
Chinese, Indians, Koreans — they are all insufferable when they get the SJW bug.
* Take out the Asian thing for a moment. He went to Bowdoin and then MFA from Columbia. How high is the chance that he is an assimilationist (citizenist, in your phrasing) conservative? He could be a white male with those credentials, and the chance of him being a self-loathing (in rhetoric, in anyway) SJW is pretty high.
Of course, posting something like this is a dog whistle move of sorts – it riles up the white nationalists: “See, yellows hate whites too!”
In reality, residential and marriage patterns show that, far from hating whites, most Asians are quite comfortable living next to, and marrying, whites.
I will concede this one point – the likes of Kang are certainly an indication that the universities are engines of indoctrinating the relatively ideologically naïve Asians into ersatz white SJWs… because I am pretty certain that the parents of the same are not.
* Unbearable straightness of professional sports
Unbearable gayness of the fashion industry
Unbearable Jewishness of Hollywood
The possibilities of this approach are endless…
* Where are the screams for diversity in the Korean Baseball Organization or the Nippon Baseball league? Koreans are probably some of the most racist/xenophobic people on the planet. I have no problem with that, but just shut the hell up when you come to the US. Funny how he keeps a Caucasian name as well.
* Baseball is actually more reflective of American demographics because 80% of Dominicans – a huge chunk of the Latino cohort – are in fact black, by conventional judgement of race. But don’t tell Dominicans that they are black. No, they are pure blooded criollos of ancient Castilian stock, at least that is what they tell themselves.
* Friend: “At least Sanders and Trump are honest.”
Luke: “I don’t think Trump is particularly honest.”
Friend: “He’s basically honest.”
Luke: “As honest as my invoices.”
* Dermatology is the best medical specialty, because your patients never die and they never get well. You just keep prescribing ointments.
* There seem to be more and more Muslims in full regalia around West LA. Every day at the Century City mall is Sharia Day.
* “Goy: In that book, Submission, by Houellebecq, the protagonist, a French Lit professor in full decadent mode, says that he has heard that middle eastern women wear all black and hijabs and burquas in public and then come home and put on six piece lingerie and heels and wax etc etc. whereas western women put on sexy heels for work and then come home and put on sweatpants and burp in front of their husbands. Seems true.”
* How many people who follow my posts are clinically insane? One in three?
* Most people who want to convert to Judaism are insane. The rabbis know this and reject 99% of them.
* Does your husband ever make you wear a hijab around the house?
* Ever made your woman wear a hijab to honor our multiculti society? And because you love the Prophet?
* Apparently the direct approach works best on Tinder; “Wanna smash?” Goyim! At least I have Torah.
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When I see somebody’s use of themselves, I’m looking at how they talk to themselves. Unnecessary compression results from a punitive attitude to the self. I rarely find someone with terrible use who’s at ease with himself and I rarely find someone with good use who hates himself.
Take someone who complains of tight shoulders. What’s going on is that they are subconsciously tightening their shoulders. But what’s underneath that unnecessary tightening? I bet a punitive attitude to the self, a feeling that I am not good enough, that I need to make myself smaller so others won’t hurt me.
Another client might discover that he unconsciously tilts his head to the right. That feels normal to him. He goes through life with a weird tilt while he feels like he’s straight. So what is going on underneath that unnecessary compression that’s pulling him to the right? It may well reflect strain in his self-talk.
When people are happy, they are at their most buoyant. When depressed, they are pulled down.
Comments from other Alexander teachers:
* Emotional shields, makes people feel safer.
* This not only true some of the time, it is always the case. We address habits of mind along with all other habits of use, don’t we? How can it be otherwise?
* I agree wholeheartedly, Luke. And the ‘wholeheartedly’ is important, too, because it’s not necessarily when we can release/cease the unhelpful self-beliefs that we begin to flow better in our self, but when we simply drop the judgements about having the beliefs in the first place; giving ourself our whole-heart. I work in both arenas as one all the time now.
* You can’t address someone’s posture without addressing their emotional state. And many postural habits make people feel emotionally safer, and that need to feel safe needs to be respected.
* Luke, I mused and mulled more over what you say in your first post, and find it very interesting, and worth while to ask the questions you ask. It is a bit like me asking myself – and others sometimes – what I am really up to when I am doing something. What am I really up to right now, pulling my shoulders up and typing on that keyboard? I mean, apart from typing, pulling up my shoulders, and responding to your post, what am I really up to? And I find that I am in a desperate hurry to get my word in! Hence the pulling up of shoulders…. Your questions are definitely worth asking and considering.
* The Law of Correspondence was a statement that the inner and the outer are reflections of one another. But like musical notes, the same tone played in a different moment, or with different companion notes, could be part of a different effect. Having feelings is not an imperfection.
In my early forties, I decided I wanted to experience a form of body therapy known as structural integration (or, more popularly, “Rolfing,” after the originator of the method, Ida Rolf). This process involves deep massage and manipulation of the muscle fasciae to realign the body in more appropriate relation to gravity, to correct imbalances caused by entrenched muscular contractions, and to open areas of blocked feeling and energy. When treatment is successful, it leads to a general freeing up of the capacity to feel, greater awareness of and sensitivity to one’s own physical processes, improved overall coordination, superior balance, and increased energy. Not everyone gains these benefits to the same degree (or at all), but for me it was very much the right treatment at the right time in my development. I felt lighter than I had in years. I experienced a general deepening of self-awareness. I felt freer emotionally. I felt as if walls within myself had dissolved. And I had more energy. I was not surprised that I felt better. What did surprise me-what I was completely unprepared for was the change in my perceptiveness concerning other people.
During this period I was leading a number of psychotherapy groups, and my clients volunteered that they could notice changes in me week by week as the Rolfing progressed. I had had very little formal training in working with the body in psychotherapy, yet I found I was now able to “read” bodies to a new and astonishing degree. Slight changes in facial expression or eye movements, shifts of posture, subtle variations in ways of standing or sitting, changes of skin color, alterations in breathing patterns all suddenly seemed to convey volumes of information to me as clearly as articulate speech. It was as if, in becoming more transparent to myself, I had shifted to a space that allowed others to become more transparent to me.
* [When we look at someone at peace] we see eyes that are alert, bright, and lively; a face that is relaxed and (barring illness) tends to exhibit natural color and good skin vibrancy; a chin that is held naturally and in alignment with one’s body; and a relaxed jaw.
We see shoulders relaxed yet erect; hands that tend to be relaxed and graceful; arms that tend to hang in an easy, natural way; a posture that tends to be unstrained, erect, well-balanced; a walk that tends to be purposeful (without being aggressive and overbearing).
We hear a voice that tends to be modulated with an intensity appropriate to the situation and with clear pronunciation.
Notice that the theme of relaxation occurs again and again. Relaxation implies that we are not hiding from ourselves and are not at war with who we are. Chronic tension conveys a message of some form of internal split, some form of self-avoidance or self-repudiation, some aspect of the self being disowned or held on a very tight leash.
* We deny and disown our emotions when we (1) avoid awareness of their reality, (2) constrict our breathing and tighten our muscles to cut off or numb feeling, and (3) disassociate ourselves from our own experience (in which state we are often unable to recognize our feelings).
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