Myanmar’s Program For Muslims

From the New York Times:

The Rohingya have faced discrimination for decades. They have been denied citizenship, evicted from their homes, had their land confiscated and been attacked by the military. After one such attack in 1978, some 200,000 fled to Bangladesh.

The latest flare-up began with an outbreak of sectarian rioting in 2012, in which hundreds of Rohingya were killed and dozens of their villages burned to the ground by radical Buddhists. Since then, close to 100,000 have fled the country, and more than 100,000 have been confined to squalid camps, forbidden to leave.

A spokesman for Rakhine State insisted the Rohingya did not belong in Myanmar and defended the Rakhine Action Plan as necessary because the higher Muslim birthrate threatened the Buddhist majority.

“There are no Rohingya under the law,” said the spokesman, U Win Myaing, assistant director of the Ministry of Information. “They are illegal immigrants. If they need labor in the United Arab Emirates, why don’t they ask people to go there?”

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‘Next time you’re besotted, just ask for a writing sample’

From the blog Just Not Said:

I’ve generally gotten a clearer sense of people from their writings than from their everyday conversation.

A parallel: if you find a beautiful woman witty and insightful, see if that impression holds up over an extended conversation on the phone. With the only physical distraction a plastic handset, you’re sure to get a clearer picture.

Certain things, like figuring out if someone is a liar, are better done in person. Others, like peering at a brain, are sometimes best done from a distance.

Next time you’re besotted, just ask for a writing sample.

* “People can be divided into two groups: those into self-improvement, and those into consumption.”

* “Conversely, the nicest people are often the most boring. They have a stiff, inhibited way of letting the truth stand in the way of a good story. And they are susceptible to nerves.”

* “An alpha about to go to bed with a new woman for the first time feels as if he’s just stumbled onto a hidden treasure. A beta feels as if he is onstage, and must give the performance of his life.”

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The Debt (2010)

I’m watching this movie on Netflix. According to Wikipedia’s plot summary:

In 1965, Mossad agent Rachel Singer (Jessica Chastain) arrives in East Berlin to meet with fellow agents David Peretz (Sam Worthington) and Stefan Gold (Marton Csokas). Their mission is to capture Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen)—infamously known as “The Surgeon of Birkenau” for his medical experiments on Jews during World War II—and bring him to Israel to face justice.

After the surgeon is captured by three members of the Mossad, he inquires of Rachel Singer, “How is my wife?”

Apparently on instruction, she does not answer him with words but quietly nods to him later to indicate his wife is fine.

Rachel is then told: “You can’t talk to him. You can’t listen to him… We don’t talk to him. We don’t listen to him. He isn’t there. He isn’t a human being.”

That is how you treat Nazis. That is how you treat racists. That is how you treat heretics aka people like Spinoza.

Near the end of the film, Rachel’s ex-husband and Mossad partner on the 1965 hit tells her: “Truth is a luxury. Some people have to hold other things first, their country, their people, their children.”

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How Do You Deal With Terrorists?

Attorney Eugene Girin writes:

The visibly shaken Fadlallah responded after a moment of silence: “I think everything will turn out well”. Later, his closest advisor “Hassan” (Nasrallah?) told Yuri Perfilyev that no one dared to talk to the Grand Ayatollah in such a fashion.

But the ominous threat against one of the holy cities of Shiism was only one prong in the Soviet strategy. According to Benny Morris, who was Jerusalem Post’s diplomatic correspondent at that time and later became famous as a brilliant historian, in tandem with the threats, the Soviets took sharper action:

[T]he KGB kidnapped a man they knew to be a close relative of a prominent Hezbollah leader. They then castrated him and sent the severed organs to the Hezbollah official, before dispatching the unfortunate kinsman with a bullet in the brain.

In addition to presenting him with this grisly proof of their seriousness, the KGB operatives also advised the Hezbollah leader that they knew the identities of other close relatives of his, and that he could expect more such packages if the three Soviet diplomats were not freed immediately.

Soon thereafter, the surviving three hostages were dropped off by the Soviet embassy “from a late-model BMW that couldn’t drive away fast enough” and never again was a Soviet (diplomat or otherwise) kidnapped in Lebanon. As Benny Morris put it: “This is the way the Soviets operate. They do things – they don’t talk. And this is the language the Hezbollah understand.” Not only Hezbollah, but ISIS and every other Muslim terror group.

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Eugene Girin: The Evil Hypocrisy of the Jewish Establishment in Australia

Eugene Girin writes:

Even before the recent victory of rightwing Catholic Tony Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition in Australia, the previous Labor government was instituting measures to stem the flow of mass immigration. Outgoing leftist PM Kevin Rudd said of the new measures:

“Asylum seekers who come here by boat without a visa will never be settled in Australia.”

This uncharacteristically tough stance on illegal immigration, adopted in response to his party’s sinking in the polls, was too much for the leftist leaders of Australia’s Jewish establishment, a major source of power behind Rudd’s Labor party.

“I cannot stomach voting for a government that treats other human beings in this way. A line has been crossed. Rudd’s policy, like that of [Tony] Abbott’s, is brutal. It relies on abusing the human rights of one group of refugees to deter another group.” wailed Josh Bornstein, a prominent Jewish attorney and major Labor supporter.

“I am deeply distressed and disturbed by the current hard-line policies of both major parties. The true measure of the moral level of society is how it treats its most vulnerable people.” screeched leftwing author Arnold Zable.

“Down this path lie vulnerable refugees fleeing persecution and, while deserving of our empathy, they are instead left degraded and dehumanized. As a person of Jewish faith, I have long understood what racism does to people.” sobbed Mark Leibler, the chairman of Australia’s pro-Israel lobbying group “Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council”.

But what about Israel’s hardline policies on illegal immigrants, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa? The Netanyahu government, on whose behalf Leibler’s outfit so vociferously lobbies, banned remittances, sealed Israel’s border with Egypt, and started deporting the troublesome migrants.

Why aren’t the same Jewish leftists who wring their hands and go into hysterics about the policies of gentile leaders are either silent about or openly sympathetic to Bibi’s policies? Why can Israel adopt admirably strict measures against mass immigration, but predominantly gentile western societies have to swing open their doors and allow their nations to be flooded by Third World invaders?

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You Can’t Raise Your Kids’ IQ

From FoxNews:

Researchers found that parental socialization had no detectable influence on children’s intelligence later in life.

“Previous research that has detected parenting-related behaviors affect intelligence is perhaps incorrect because it hasn’t taken into account genetic transmission,” study author Kevin Beaver, a criminology professor at FSU, said in a press release.

Some studies suggest that parents who interact with their kids over family dinners or by reading them bedtimes stories can boost their children’s IQ, while other research suggests that children’s IQs are only a product of their genetics.

Analyzing children who shared no DNA with their adoptive parents eliminated the possibility that parental socialization influenced a child’s intelligence.

“In previous research, it looks as though parenting is having an effect on child intelligence, but in reality the parents who are more intelligent are doing these things and it is masking the genetic transformation of intelligence to their children,” Beaver said.

Beaver noted that the findings don’t suggest that parents shouldn’t engage with their children, but rather that parents don’t have to go to extremes to influence their offspring.

“The way you parent a child is not going to have a detectable effect on their IQ as long as that parenting is within normal bounds,” Beaver said.

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Can A Jewish Woman Save The NFL?

Jews don’t tend to play tackle football. We’re more likely to own a sports team than to play for one.

Domestic violence usually means that two morons have been going at each other and the littler one lost. I was not sickened by the video of Ray Rice knocking his fiance out cold. I saw in that clip two idiots bickering with each other and the more fragile one lost.

I am embarrassed as a Jew that “domestic violence” is another hysteria that some left-wing Jews will use to push for more laws, for more government intrusion into our lives, and to fight what is natural, normal and healthy. Asking for consent during every step of courtship is not natural, normal and healthy. It’s not hot. It’s anti-nature.

If left-wing Jewish activists like Anna Isaacson really want to take back the night, they’ll support a racially segregated America. That way women will be safe to walk the streets in white and asian neighborhoods and they’ll be less likely to date and mate with black men (who have a much higher rate of domestic violence and other forms of criminal violence than other groups).

What sane person would expect that a violent and destructive game that primarily employs lower-class blacks, often chewing them up and leaving them crippled for life, will teach America anything good?

The NFL’s domestic violence problem is a black problem. It is overwhelmingly black players who are getting in crime trouble. But the news media narrative is that it is all the fault of the goyim running the NFL such as Roger Goodell.

Sports shows how different races have different gifts. Orientals and Jews, for instance, don’t tend to dominate in the NFL. Blacks do. On the other hand, Orientals and Jews do better than average in school and in post-school earning. Orientals and Jews dominate in tech companies, blacks dominate in basketball, Jews dominate in pornography and gangster rap, Christians dominate in American oil companies, etc.

Steve Sailer writes: “Ray Rice beating up his fiance (now wife) is the worst thing in the history of the world because Rice is a man, but Fox beating up women for money requires our You Go, Girl approbation because Fox is an ex-man.”

Steve Sailer writes:

“Lex at What Would Tyler Durden Do points out the logical weirdness in the current condemnation of all-world NFL running back Adrian Peterson for beating one of his four year old sons with a stick in a rare attempt at interacting with one of the uncertain but no doubt large number of children he has spawned, while giving a pass to Peterson procreating at random.”

Adrian Peterson Defenders Don’t Get It

I’m all for leaving the government out of the bedroom, the bathroom, and the shed where you whip your boy with deciduous branches. … But Adrian Peterson isn’t really a dad. He’s a football player who likes to stroke his ego by impregnating women so the world may know the power of his seed. … He didn’t even know he had one kid until that kid was beaten to death. He may have as many as seven kids around the country.

Every summer Peterson hosts a Meet Dad Camp at his estate in Texas where his multitude of bastards get a couple weeks bowing down to the peacock before receiving some Vikings swag and a Greyhound ticket back to their moms. Just because you pay the court ordered child support and you like to brag about your reproductive powers doesn’t make you dad.Charles Barkley says all the black dads in the South whoop their kids like this. Great. … Make the Lorax weep with all the trees you fell just to make the perfect switch. But you can’t lacerate your rent-a-kid the day before he’s packed in the FexEd box and delivered back to his real home. Get some perspective. Adrian Peterson isn’t a throwback disciplinarian. He’s just a pretend dad who likes to hit kids with real sticks.

From ESPN:

NEW YORK — Sitting behind a sparkling glass table frosted with the NFL logo, the woman handpicked by Roger Goodell to help save his football league leans back, folds her arms and listens. It’s early October, only a few weeks from the Ray Rice fiasco, and tensions at the league’s Park Avenue headquarters are high. In the next hour, Anna Isaacson will gather input from a cast of experts and finalize the domestic violence and sexual assault seminars the league will soon roll out to all 32 teams.

The subject is complex. The stakes are high. No detail — not even something as seemingly insignificant as the program’s title — can be overlooked. The group started with “Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Education 101.” Boring. In an email chain a day earlier, someone proposed “Setting the Standard.” Isaacson was unimpressed…

The fact that this woman is making these decisions is surprising, to say the least. At 35 years old, with limited prior experience working on domestic violence and sexual assault issues, Isaacson is the most unlikely of NFL saviors. Her athletic career consists of one Little League baseball season. She taught herself the rules of football by reading “Football for Dummies.” She landed her first job at the NFL in 2006 by applying on the league’s website. Yet on Sept. 15, when the league was in crisis as a result of its fumbling the Rice case and other domestic violence accusations involving NFL players, Goodell named Isaacson the league’s first vice president of social responsibility…

At Barnard, she had marched in “Take Back the Night” campaigns to raise awareness for sexual assault and domestic violence. Although she has never been a victim, she said, the issues have “touched my life and, frankly, shaped who I am.”

…Thus far, Isaacson and her team have created the new training sessions every player and league employee will go through and have persuaded league executives to sacrifice more than $10 million in advertising revenue to run a series of anti-domestic violence PSAs during televised games.

…Friel explained to one of the league’s player engagement representatives that they must educate players not to look for signs of no during a sexual encounter, but rather, signs of yes. “And you have to consent to every piece as you move ahead,” Friel told him. “If you consent to kissing, it doesn’t mean you consent to go farther. If you consent to go farther, it doesn’t mean you consent to go all the way. And frankly, if you consent to go all the way, you can change your mind in the middle of that. It’s important to educate the players that this is a healthier place for them to be than waiting for someone to push them off and say no.”

…This, Isaacson knew, would not be a day for the Brooklyn accent. Before the event, Clare Graff, an NFL publicist and close friend, encouraged her to ditch her comfortable Crocs for a pair of heels. Then Graff hinted at a little makeup. “I just asked, ‘Do you have any makeup around?'” Graff said. “It was just for the press conference. I’m not her day-to-day stylist.”

…Isaacson trusts the plan. Although critics might contend she’s absurdly optimistic, she believes the league can become a leader in domestic violence and sexual abuse awareness and prevention.

Different races have different strengths. As the black reverend and former NFL star Reggie White said:

Why did God create us differently? Why did God make me black and you white? Why did God make the next guy Korean and the next guy Asian and the other guy Hispanic? Why did God create the Indians?
Well, it’s interesting to me to know why now. When you look at the black race, black people are very gifted in what we call worship and celebration. A lot of us like to dance, and if you go to black churches, you see people jumping up and down, because they really get into it.

White people were blessed with the gift of structure and organization. You guys do a good job of building businesses and things of that nature and you know how to tap into money pretty much better than a lot of people do around the world.

Hispanics are gifted in family structure. You can see a Hispanic person and they can put 20 or 30 people in one home. They were gifted in the family structure.

When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or any Asian country, they can turn a television into a watch. They’re very creative. And you look at the Indians, they have been very gifted in the spirituality.

When you put all of that together, guess what it makes. It forms a complete image of God. God made us different because he was trying to create himself. He was trying to form himself, and then we got kind of knuckleheaded and kind of pushed everything aside.

Steve Sailer holds by Reggie White’s thinking:

As a Reggieist (i.e., one who considers human biodiversity both a reality and a net blessing), I’m pleased to point out that IQ tests can’t accurately measure at least one mental faculty in which blacks tend to outperform whites and Asians in real life. Despite lower mean IQ’s, African-Americans are not a race of talentless dullards, but are instead the most charismatic contributors to 20th Century popular culture. What mental factor underlies the black revolutions in music, sport, oratory, dance, and slang? Subjective, improvisatory creativity.
For example, like a lot of NBA stars, Scottie Pippen’s below-market contract, ill-timed trade demands, team-damaging pouts, and numerous child-support obligations imply that when given time to think, he often chooses unwisely. Yet, in the flow of the game, he’s a Talleyrand at real-time decision-making. Leading a fast break, there are no permanent right answers. Even “Pass the ball to Michael Jordan” gets old fast as defenses habituate. Similarly, the NFL running back, the jazz soloist, the preacher, and the rapping DJ all must heed others’ expectations and instantly respond with something a little unexpected. IQ tests — by necessity objective and standardized — can never measure this adequately.

Further, despite his data’s inevitable shortcomings in this regard, Jensen does report that blacks possess particular mental weaknesses and strengths. Among individuals with equal g’s, whites and Asians (like males) are typically stronger in those visual-spatial skills so useful in engineering and many skilled trades. In contrast, blacks (like females) often enjoy better short-term memories and thus can mentally juggle more balls in social situations. (This probably contributes to the black advantage in improvisation). Jensen’s findings confirm my intuition (NR, 4/6/98) that while whites and Asians tend to be less masculine than blacks in physique and personality, they are typically more masculine than blacks in mental abilities. Put bluntly, whites and Asians tend to be nerdier than blacks. How many blacks would sincerely disagree?

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The Catcall Experiment In New Zealand

When 24-year-old aspiring actress Shoshana Roberts was filmed with a hidden camera walking around New York in a plain T-shirt, jeans and trainers she received 108 “catcalls”. Here’s what happened when the Herald carried out the same experiment in Auckland.

My explanation: There are few blacks and mestizo-Hispanics in New Zealand. White and Asian communities tend to be more polite than black and Puerto Rican ones. White areas in USA are similar to white areas in NZ and Australia and England etc.

Warner Epic: “New Zealand is not about colour we are about our people and believe we are all one! NZ is not like Aus, England or the U.S we don’t believe in race we believe in Humanity and thats the reason why our country is the way it is.”

Luke Ford: “And yet, strangely enough, life results by race fall out in exactly the same proportion in NZ as in the rest of the world with East Asians at one end, whites in the middle, and blacks at the other end (when it comes to crime, academic achievement, income, family stability, etc).”

Warner Epic: “Luke I’m sorry I think your wrong there man, I’m from there and thats not how we are , I don’t understand what all this White and Blacks talk is really don’t get it! In NZ that kind of talk will get you hurt or disrespected , we are the only country that still sings our national anthem in both maori and english! New Zealand is a beautiful hard working country that has done amazing , but above all it’s a place where you can go and just be yourself! and know one will care.”

Luke Ford: “Beautiful. And if New Zealand had been founded and dominated demographically by Sicilians or Africans or Chinese or Muslims (instead of WASPs), I am sure it would have the same character it has today. Race is irrelevant. Religion is irrelevant. Ethnicity is irrelevant. We are all God’s children.”

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How Often Do You See Orthodox Jews Strolling?

New York Times journalist Joseph Berger writes in his book The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America:

Suddenly, in what looks like a whimsical scene out of a Truffaut movie, a Hasid wheels by on a beat-up bicycle, balancing his round black hat on his head. But he is not taking a leisurely ride or training for a triathlon. Instead he has the frenzied look of someone on an urgent errand.

Indeed, no one is strolling, dawdling, loitering. The walks are clipped, fevered; nothing is frivolous or indolent about anyone’s gait. Everyone is hurrying to do the work of the Creator… There is much to squeeze in. In addition to work or schooling, there needs to be a time and place for prayer, study and the fulfillment of the various rituals that define the week and the season.

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The Parallel Universe Of The Hasidic Jew

New York Times journalist Joseph Berger writes in his book The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America:

In the secular realm, the laws of the Russian or Polish state persecuted Jews and barred them from whole territories or occupations, so Hasidim paid lip service to those laws, observed them in fear but, like the Sicilians did with various conquerors, ignored or broke them outright when they could because they were the oppressive laws of a powerful invader. What was paramount was the the Torah, as enforced by the rabbis and rabbinic courts, where the reckoning for transgressions was divine or in some cases could lead to communal ostracism. That history of a dual system sometimes explains, though it does not excuse, what outsiders today view as a cavalier disregard that Hasidim have for America’s tax laws, fire codes, educational standards and other manifestations of the governmental authority.

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