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If Jews Can’t Travel To Many Muslim Countries, Why Should Western Countries Allow In Muslims?

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

It does not terribly bother me that Jews aren’t welcome in Saudi Arabia and about 15 other Muslim countries. We Jews should return the favor to Muslims and advocate restrictions on their entrance to Western nations.

From Quora:

It’s well known among expats here that an Israeli stamp on your passport can get you denied entry to many countries in the Middle East.
With the tension between Israel and many countries in the Middle East, travel on an Israeli passport, unless previously arranged as part of a diplomatic mission, will likely subject you to intensive screening and refusal of a visa at the airport in the Gulf states, in less stable countries you might be arrested.
A visa application for tourism or work in the Middle East will ask for your religion. It is at this stage that the application for entrance into Saudi would likely be rejected, not at the airline. Note: It is completely acceptable to put ‘Non-Muslim’ in these visa documents. The airline would refuse to put you on the plane if you don’t have a visa, Saudi has a history of not giving you a visa if you’re Israeli or have israeli stamps…
To summarize:
1. Saudi has no diplomatic relations with Israel, and as such does not recognize Israeli passports. Mostly. There are occasional exceptions.
2. There are many Jews working in Saudi under the passports of many nationalities. The official position of the Saudi government is to not forbid Jews from Saudi.

According to Wikipedia:

Sixteen countries forbid admission to Israeli passport holders:
Algeria[8]
Bangladesh[9]
Brunei[10]
Iran[11][12]
Iraq (except Iraqi Kurdistan)[13]
Kuwait[14]
Lebanon[15] (neighboring country; territory dispute – Shebaa farms)
Libya[16]
Malaysia (Clearance permit needed from the Ministry of Home Affairs.)[17]
Oman[18]
Pakistan (Clearance permit needed from the Ministry of Internal Security.)[19]
Saudi Arabia[20][21]
Sudan[22]
Syria[23] (neighboring country; territory dispute – Golan Heights)
United Arab Emirates (accepted for transit only; not allowed for admission)[24]
Yemen[25][26]
In addition, Iran,[27] Kuwait,[28] Lebanon,[29] Libya,[30] Saudi Arabia,[31] Sudan,[32] Syria[33] and Yemen[34] do not allow entry to people with evidence of travel to Israel, or whose passports have either a used or an unused Israeli visa. As a consequence, many countries will allow for a second passport to be issued to citizens wishing to circumvent this restriction.

Dave Kopel writes in 2011 for the Volokh Conspiracy:

In January, Delta Airlines announced that Saudi Arabian Airlines is joining Delta’s SkyTeam network of international airline partners. Yesterday, WorldNet Daily reported that Delta employees would be enforcing a no-Jews policy when checking in passengers on SAA flights from the United States to Saudi Arabia.
I looked around the web for verification, and found the following: In 2004, a Saudi government website, promoting visits to Saudi Arabia, did state a “no Jews” policy. Apparently in response to extensive U.S. criticism, that statement was removed. The visa required for entry to Saudi Arabia mandates that the applicant disclose his or her religion. The typical advice for American visitors is to write “non-Muslim” or “Christian.” However, a 2007 article in Commentary magazine by scholar Joshua Muravchik reports on his recent visit to Saudi Arabia; he wrote “Jewish” on his visa application, and was nevertheless granted a Saudi visa.
It does seem to be widely reported, without contradiction, that Saudi authorities will deny visas to anyone who has an Israel entrance or exit stamp on his passport. This category would include not only Jews who have visited Israel, but also the many Christians who visit the Holy Land, as well as business travelers to Israel. Several other African and Asian governments apparently have similar policies.
At airport check-in in the United States, a responsibility of the U.S. airline which is checking in travelers for an international partner airline is to verify that the travelers have the appropriate documentation required by U.S. law (e.g., a passport) and by the foreign airline (e.g., an entry visa from the Saudi government).
The WND article reprints two letters from Delta Airlines to a person who raised questions about the above. Essentially, Delta’s position is that they just enforce whatever the destination government requires, and if you don’t like the destination government ‘s discrimination, go complain to the U.S. State Department.
I would have preferred an answer to the effect of “We have confirmed that Saudi Arabia does not discriminate against Jewish visitors, or people who have visited Israel, and we would never partner with an airline which would require us to enforce such reprehensible policies.”
Saudi Arabian Airlines is government-owned (with some ancillary services, such as catering, being privatized). Delta Airlines is exercising a choice to make its employees complicit in the enforcement of the Saudi government’s policies of hatred and discrimination against anyone who visits Israel. If Delta’s business alliance with the Saudi government is conditional on that government not reinstating a formal ban on all Jewish visitors, Delta has not taken the opportunity to say so. When I travel, I will exercise my own choice not to fly Delta.

During the 1940s and 1950s, most Jewish residents of Arab countries left:

The reasons for the exodus included push factors, such as persecution, antisemitism, political instability,[15] poverty[15] and expulsion, together with pull factors, such as the desire to fulfill Zionist yearnings or find a better economic status and a secure home in Europe or the Americas. The history of the exodus has been politicized, given its proposed relevance to the historical narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict.[16] When presenting the history, those who view the Jewish exodus as analogous to the 1948 Palestinian exodus generally emphasize the push factors and consider those who left as refugees, while those who do not, emphasize the pull factors and consider them willing immigrants.

I don’t think any people, including Jews, needs to give citizenship to people who hate them. Why should Israel (or the West) grant citizenship to Muslims or even allow them in? That makes no sense.

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Credit Scores Correlate With Relationship Health

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Credit score correlates highly with IQ.

WP: The one number that’s eerily good at predicting your success in love
When people are looking for a significant other, they often try to find someone whose values, education, earnings, hobbies and even height match their own. But new research suggests there’s one promising measure for finding a committed partner that most daters overlook — credit scores.
A credit score is a number that is supposed to reflect the risk of lending money to someone, based mostly on their past history of borrowing, repaying and defaulting on debt. Banks have long used credit scores to evaluate customers, but these days potential employers, landlords, insurance companies, cellphone companies and many other businesses do, too.
A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Board that looks at what role credit scores play in committed relationships suggests that daters might want to start using the metric as well. The researchers found that credit scores — or whatever personal qualities credit scores might represent — actually play a pretty big role in whether people form and stay in committed relationships. People with higher credit scores are more likely to form committed relationships and marriages and then stay in them. In addition, how well matched the couple’s credit scores are initially is a good predictor of whether they stay together in the long term.

From the Audacious Epigone:

GNXP’s Razib alerted me to CreditReport.com’s listing of average credit scores by state*. Not surprisingly, the scores correlate strongly with a couple of the usual suspects. With the percentage of a state’s population that is non-Asian minority (NAM), the correlation is an inverse .74 (p=0). With IQ, the correlation is an even stronger .77 (p=0).
Because these relationships are somberly unsurprising, they’re not likely to be given any attention by Important People, anywhere, ever. (That is, unless to point out societal racism, evinced from racial disparities on the blank slatist assumption that differences in groups are entirely contingent upon external social forces, or to argue for more educational spending to combat American profligacy**).
Living around people who are not up to their eyeballs in debt makes for a better quality of life. Economic downturns are less disruptive, business is easier to conduct, neighbors are more likely to take care of homes they have equity in and cars they’re not half-expecting to be repossessed, etc. A state’s average credit rating could easily be included among the 44 social, cultural, and economic factors CQ Press uses to calculate its livability index. That index correlates with a state’s estimated average IQ at a nearly identical .80 (p=0).
A visualization illustrates that unlike the red-blue political divide conceptualized as pitting the coasts against the nation’s interior, when it comes to desirable places to live (weather excluded), a north-south divide emerges.
Steve Sailer excerpts from George Will’s obituary for the late Senator Moynihan:
The Senate’s Sisyphus, Moynihan was forever pushing uphill a boulder of inconvenient data. A social scientist trained to distinguish correlation from causation, and a wit, Moynihan puckishly said that a crucial determinant of the quality of American schools is proximity to the Canadian border.”
Richard Lynn has suggested that a north-south IQ continuum has evolved through selection for greater intelligence in less hospitable environments. It seems at least plausible that colder environments also selected for greater resistance to and tolerance of cold in the process. Which, in addition to historical settlement patterns, might offer some explanation as to why the north-south contiuum continues to exist (not just in the US, but internationally as well^).

Credit scores correlate with IQ which correlates with health.

Yahoo:

In this era of big data, a bevy of numbers is used to “define” a person: your IQ, weight, age, income, and even your number of Facebook friends. Now, new research suggests that one number may reveal much more than ever intended: your credit score.
Originally developed to set interest rates for home loans, this stat is now being used to determine everything from job eligibility to the cost of life insurance. “Your credit score is simple, in the sense that it’s a single number,” Salomon Israel, a Duke University post-doctoral scholar and psychologist, told Yahoo Health. “But it actually reflects a multi-year history of decisions.” As a result, it’s thought to shed light on something that companies can’t directly observe: how prone you are to taking risks. This may allow life insurers to estimate how long you’ll live and how healthy you are.
In other words, your credit score, once strictly used as a measure of financial health, may be a simple way to identify complex personality traits with far-reaching effects. “Credit scores capture things like: How organized are you? How trustworthy are you?” said Israel. These qualities are part of what psychologists call social capital, which includes education, IQ, self-control, and perseverance. “People might not be willing to give up a personality test or an IQ test,” he said. But a credit score? Most of us don’t hesitate to turn this information over, although Israel speculated this might change if we knew exactly how revealing that single number can be.
In fact, according to a new study in PNAS, conducted by Israel and a team of researchers from Duke University, the U.K., and New Zealand, your credit score may illuminate what’s happening inside your body, not just in your bank account. When they evaluated the heart health and credit scores of 1,037 New Zealanders, all age 38, who’d been tracked since birth, they found that their financial rating was strongly correlated to their risk of heart disease. Specifically, those with lower credit scores faced a higher risk of cardiac trouble.

Credit scores, family stability and health correlate with race. East-Asians, for instance, have higher credit scores, more wealth, more education, more family stability, and longer lives than whites who in turn have more of all these good things than blacks.

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Jews & Germans

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life:

Just as Jewish groups’ principled declarations against totalitarianism did not prevent them from seeking entry for Jews who had been Communists, so the Christian groups’ equally sincere hostility to totalitarianism did not prevent them from seeking admission for their coreligionists who were former Nazis.
…One constraint was fear of confirming a long-standing and widely held negative perception of Jews. No lesson in comparative theology was as assiduously taught in Sunday schools across the United States as the contrast between the Old Testament God of Vengeance and the New Testament God of Love and Forgiveness. Recent experience had shown its continued currency. Toward the end of the war, President Roosevelt had casually endorsed, then quickly repudiated, a plan advanced by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau for the permanent deindustrialization (“pastoralization”) of Germany. Secretary of War Henry Stimson privately called the Morgenthau Plan “semitism gone wild for vengeance.”
…The popular association of Jews with Communism dated from the Bolshevik Revolution. Most of the “alien agitators” deported from the United States during the Red Scare after World War I had been Jews. In the interwar years the Communist Jew was a staple of anti-Semitic propaganda in both the United States and Europe….
Lucy Dawidowicz — later well known as an historian of the Holocaust, but in these years the American Jewish Committee’s expert on the percentage of Jews among ‘hostile witnesses’ before various investigative bodies. Jews, she found, often made up 75 percent or more of the totals. Worst of all, producing something near panic among mainstream Jewish organizations, was the number of Jews figuring in espionage prosecutions: the Amerasia case, the Canadian Spy Ring, the Judith Coplon case — culminating in that ultimate disaster for Jewish public relations, the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Morton Sobell, Harry Gold, and David Greenglass.
Jewish organizations worked frantically to combat the Jew-Communist equation, but it was a difficult brief. They could insist, correctly, that only a small proportion of Jews were Communists, or even well disposed toward the Soviet Union. But it was also correct, and becoming manifest, that a great many — perhaps most — American Communists in these years were Jews.
…Jewish organizations, throughout the fifties and well into the sixties, worked on a variety of fronts to prevent, or at least limit, the association of Jews with Communism in the public mind. Their principal co-operative venture was the ‘Hollywood Project,’ in which they jointly employed a West Coast representative who lobbied movie producers to avoid any unsympathetic representations of Jews. A good deal of this lobbying dealt with the Jew-Communist issue. The producer of I Married a Communist promised to see that no Communist character had a ‘name that can even remotely be construed as Jewish…
The inward turn on the part of much of American Jewish leadership, their insistence that ‘Is it good for the Jews?’ be the first, if not the only, question that Jews ask themselves — inevitably mandated a rightward turn as well. By the 1970s Jews were preeminent among the ‘haves’ in American society, and the gap between Jews and non-Jew, in income as well as in representation in all elite positions, widened over subsequent decades. Jews had everything to lose and nothing to gain from the more equal distribution of rewards which had been the aim of liberal social policies … The political movement called neo-conservatism was almost exclusively a Jewish affair; Commentary, published by the American Jewish Committee, became America’s best-known conservative magazine.
…The hard-line anti-Soviet articles in its monthly magazine, Commentary, were, according to Norman Podhoretz, “part of a secret program to demonstrate that not all Jews were communists.” One of the [American Jewish] Committee’s staff members secured agreements from Time and Life and several New York newspapers not to publish letters from readers commenting on the Jewishness of accused Communists…
One Jewish official complained to a colleague that American Jews were “not taking anywhere near the measures or using the efforts in combating Communism as they do against Nazism.”
…One should never confuse the calculated public posture of Jewish officialdom with the “around the kitchen table” feelings of American Jewry, and especially not with respect to cold war inhibitions about discussing the Holocaust… Without official sanction, it could not become a public communal emblem; without official reinforcement, it tended, at least for many, to decline in salience.

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Yidden Beware!

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Luke Ford

Yidden beware! A new generation of media-savvy goyim is using the media WE invented against us! How do we stop this cyber hate?

This is a time for extra vigilance! We must monitor EVERY video on Youtube and be ready to complain about it to the relevant authorities! If there is a copyright violation on display, let us not hesitate to use it against the antisemites!

Chaim Amalek writes: “I’ve already been in touch with the SPLC, and they promise to be in touch with Alphabet (formerly Google) at the top, as they run Youtube. We need to report this to Zuckerburg at facebook too. Let’s find out who is behind this and contact their employers and landlords and the banks that hold their mortgages, if any. We need to stomp this out ASAP!”

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The Subtle Heartbreak Of Female Aging

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

Chateau: One of the most famous photographs in history is the “Afghan Mona Lisa”, a pic taken by a National Geographic photographer in the 1980s of a 12 or 13 year old Afghan girl on the cusp of womanhood. In the pic, you can see her nascent, striking beauty beginning to assert itself. Many years later, that girl, now a grown woman, was tracked down and another photograph of her at approximate age 30 was taken. Here are the two pics side by side:

Tragedy. Beauty is but a flicker in the quickly brightening and fading light of a woman’s lifetime. If you think women don’t feel stress competing in the dating market, look at this photo for a helpful reminder of the Damocles Sword of sexual expiration that dangles over the head of every woman. Unlike men whose urgency centers on relieving the pressure valve in their gonads, women are inextricably bound to a powerful, implacable emotional urgency centered on the need to capitalize on their beauty before time runs out. Women have made a pact with the devil — in return for the promise of exquisite beauty, their window to this world of lavish male attention is woefully brief.

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Every Relationship Has A Submissive Partner

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

Rollo comments: In any relationship, by order of degrees, there will always be a dominant and a submissive partner. For what ever reason (probably a belief in egalitarian gender equality) he chose the submissive partner role and abdicated to the authority of a dominant partner who didn’t have his best interests as her concern. She grows to resent him and now his life is over.

If you find yourself in a slave-like state, more likely than not a woman’s realized you’ve failed a great many of her past shit tests and will be reluctant to give up any semblance of power she thinks she has at this point. When a woman comes to recognize that her BF/husband can’t or wont provide her with the security she needs for herself and her children she will assume the role of the primary herself. Power abhors a vacuum and she will readily step into the role of the traditional security provider if a man is unwilling or incapable of doing so.

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The Nun’s Story

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

Chaim Amalek writes: We committed life-long bachelors are beyond the reach of any app or web site. I’m watching “The Nun’s Story” on DVR, and it is our life. Only instead of dedicating it to Jesus, we have dedicated ours to blogging.

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Why Young Women Flake

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau: “So a flake is really just a hindbrain burp from a hot young woman who is beset with male admiration. She flakes because she is uncertain about choosing from amongst many potential suitors. It’s the beautiful agony of nearly limitless choice within a limited time frame.”

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Gay Men Game

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau: Alpha males and gay men have a lot in common. They know how to playfully jive with women. This is why there are so many fag hags in the cities. It’s not the shopping or in-depth color wheel knowledge that chicks love about gay men; it’s the teasing they get from them that they sorely miss from the straight men they date.

If you listen to a conversation between some gay guys and their chick friends, you’ll notice that the gays almost never answer a girl’s questions or discussion tangents logically. They will nearly always take the path of evasion, obfuscation, wit, teasing, cocky misdirection or backhanded compliments (aka negs).

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An Alpha & His Women

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

Hugh Grant and unidentified students party at the student halls, University of St. Andrews. 6th / 7th October 2007 Sourced from Perez Hilton website – unknown source

Source

Chateau: The problem is compounded for married women, who presumably have been out of the dating scene for years. A woman sheltered in the confines of marital piss has lost touch with distant memories of the alpha males who used her for sex and ignored her need for love and commitment. The memories of inglorious pump and dumps that followed from shooting out of her league have faded, replaced by a feedback mechanism that relies solely on sexual interest, thus titillating her ego as if she were a fresh-faced teenager again.

A woman who thinks inspiring a man to get erect is the ultimate arbiter of her relationship worth is in for a world of pain. It is a harsh lesson many women seem to forget as they are gleefully anticipating dating life after escape from marriage to a beta provider.

You might say there is price inelasticity in women’s long term mate value. The most powerful agent working against falsely held perceptions of men’s long term sexual interest in a woman are memories of past relationships that ended badly when she tried to date out of her league. But in a multi-year marriage, those memories tend to fade and so we get the phenomenon of women initiating divorce with the belief that they can get as good as they got when they were younger.

Reality soon disabuses them of that notion, and the aging divorcée either settles with a man of lower value than her husband was when she met him, or she persists in her delusion aided by the hallucinatory effects of mimosas, cockhopping and cheerleading spinsters like herself.

Chateau: Beasts who love to brag about their sluttiness aren’t convincing others so much as they are convincing themselves of their imaginary desirability. A grrlpower slut walk is just the medicine for a lonely loser girl who’s spent one too many nights with her purple saguaro, which now vibrates in fear. She can bellow at the top of her lungs along with the rest of the sideshow freaks what a DYNAMIC and MAGNETIC piece of ass she is, and for that brief moment — that sweet afternoon escape on the streets of the city — she believes it, and her happiness swells as she fondly misremembers all those depressing, sloppy one night stands as some sort of twisted proof of her femininity and sexiness.

This is the key to defeating feminism: separate the hotties from the uglies. Make it known in no uncertain terms that feminists are ugly, inside and out, and men are repulsed by them, and the hot chicks will feel burning shame and embarrassment to be connected with the dykes, rejects, careerist shrikes and spinsters who fuel the rancid ideology.

There’s nothing like a threat to the ol’ SMV to get a person to sit up and take notice.

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