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When two sea anemones are placed together, and their tentacles intertwine, the anemones can either remain in contact, disband, or begin stinging each other with the “stinging cells” (nematocysts) on their acrorhagi. The third option constitutes an evolutionary example of aggression, seeing as the nematocysts are basically spring-loaded coils which inject paralyzing neurotoxin into their targets, killing them or forcing them to withdraw. Some scientists doing work in the 70’s and 80’s discovered that the likelihood that the anemones would wage war on each other was dependent on size, and, genetic similarity

. Until now the SPLC has done nothing to combat this form of Ocean-floor Racism. I say: A polyp-on-polyp hate crime is still a hate crime.

Anatomy of a hater ...

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Adult Actinia tenebrosa are able to distinguish between adult and juvenile clonemates and non-clonemates on tentacle contact, and aggression is directed only against non-clonemates. These findings support similar results for other anemones (Francis, 1973a,b; 1976, 1979; Bigger, 1976, 1980; Purcell, 1977) corals (Hildemann et al., 1975; Bigger and Runyan, 1979) and a colonial hydroid (Ivker, 1972).
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Adult aggression is able to cause the death of juvenile non-clonemates and results in the separation of genotypically dissimilar adults. + Since defending adults are almost always successful in adult-adult conflicts (Ottaway, 1978), the immigration of dissimilar adults should be prevented by conflict with the resident clone.

D.J. Ayre, Inter-Genotype Aggression in the Solitary Sea Anemone Actinia tenebrosa. 1982.

PF

A poem by Xenia Sunic

In the temple of silence
We shall meet one day,
When winter starts fading away,
And the weary stars
Fall on the grass,
And turn into yellow primroses—
Heavy with cold spring silver dew,
Imbued, with the pale mystery
Of the moon that moves
Into the remotest corners
Of the living roots—in the dark earth;
That blooms with the early spring flowers
Whose strange sweet scent,
Reminiscent of winter’s death,
Springs into new life’s creation
In the unusual morning twilight,
When the pregnant, pink moon starts waning,
Under her white lace covered face.

Intoxicated with night’s love,
She vibrates her passionate flow of tenderness,
Through gleaming river of stars;
And discloses her naked beauty
To the rousing sun
In the temple of silence;
Where the new spring is being born,
In magic sun cycles-
And Mnemosyne enters,
With wreath of wild flowers
On the wings of Northern wind,
And plays the music,
Of the lone wolf howling in the wilderness—
That echoes through the ancient memory
Of blood consciousness, and wild yearnings.

... these words:-

The disgraced district attorney in the Duke lacrosse rape case apologized to the three athletes in a carefully worded statement Thursday as their lawyers weighed whether to sue him - and some legal experts say they have a case.

While prosecutors generally have immunity for what they do inside the courtroom, experts said that protection probably doesn’t cover some of Mike Nifong’s more questionable actions in his handling of the case - such as calling the lacrosse players “a bunch of hooligans” in one of several interviews deemed unethical by the state bar.

“I think their chances of success suing Mr. Nifong are reasonably good, despite what we call prosecutorial immunity,” said John Banzhaf, a professor at the George Washington University School of Law.

On Wednesday, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper threw out the case against the three young men, pronounced them innocent and delivered a withering attack on Nifong, portraying him as a “rogue” prosecutor guilty of “overreaching.” Cooper said Nifong rushed the case, failed to verify the accuser’s allegations and pressed on despite the warning signs.

In his first comment on that decision, Nifong said in a statement Thursday: “To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused.”

He issued what appeared to be a plea to the students not to take any further action, saying, “It is my sincere desire that the actions of Attorney General Cooper will serve to remedy any remaining injury that has resulted from these cases.”

So far, attorneys for David Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty have not said whether they plan a civil action against Nifong. But they have not ruled it out.

Last June I reported on some military crystall-ball gazing by the MoD’s Development, Concepts & Doctrine Centre.  In a speech to the United Services Institute in London, the DCDC’s head, Rear Admiral Chris Parry,  spoke of a “Europe, including Britain ... undermined by large immigrant groups with little allegiance to their host countries” within 10 years.

Yesterday the Guardian ran a piece on another DCDC report, this time looking 30 years ahead.  Some of it, including the observation that the middle-class might transmogrify into Marxist revolutionaries, gave me a good laugh.  Parry should have taken a few political lessons from the Birmingham School of 1970.

But this was more interesting:-

Pressures leading to social unrest

By 2010 more than 50% of the world’s population will be living in urban rather than rural environments, leading to social deprivation and “new instability risks”, and the growth of shanty towns. By 2035, that figure will rise to 60%. Migration will increase. Globalisation may lead to levels of international integration that effectively bring inter-state warfare to an end. But it may lead to “inter-communal conflict” - communities with shared interests transcending national boundaries and resorting to the use of violence.

Population and Resources

The global population is likely to grow to 8.5bn in 2035, with less developed countries accounting for 98% of that. Some 87% of people under the age of 25 live in the developing world. Demographic trends, which will exacerbate economic and social tensions, have serious implications for the environment - including the provision of clean water and other resources - and for international relations. The population of sub-Saharan Africa will increase over the period by 81%, and that of Middle Eastern countries by 132%.

Assuming that these above-average military brains are sequential in their thinking, and don’t start from scratch somewhere else every time, last June’s report and this one should be read together.  In a nutshell, if Europe, including Britain, risks being “undermined by large immigrant groups with little allegiance to their host countries” within 10 years, and international “integration” leads to “communities with shared interests transcending national boundaries and resorting to the use of violence” within 30, we dissident sinners have got it wholly right.

Perhaps it would be unkind to mail Rear Admiral Parry and ask him where in his dark visions is the la-la land of multicultural happiness.  He cannot reply “In the liberal imagination,” and keep his rather interesting job.

The cunning, effort and sheer bloody manipulativeness that is required to post at majorityrights.com goes sadly unrecognised.  So here, for your edification and enlightenment, are two examples of the kind of thing that has sometimes to be done (it never works, of course, but it is done):-

The first is a letter written to the Schools Minister and Labour MP for Dorset South, Jim Knight.  The writer is one “John Standing” of Brighton, E.Sussex - a man indeed of some standing in the life sciences (though I wouldn’t be too sure about that).  He was moved to protest to Mr Knight by a BBC News article about the nature of the black male.  Well, it’s not about the nature of the black male, that’s the problem.  It’s about white racism:-

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I am indebted to Troy Southgate for putting up a link to this video, Roots, by folk-rock musicians and, it seems, English cultural heroes Show of Hands ...

As what, I suppose, might be described by our liberal friends - without much love - as a professional Englishman, my reaction to it was a curious mix of mild embarrassment and stubborn pride.  The one was a middle-class sensibility and the other something wholly Anglo-Saxon.  In fairness, this isn’t quite my usual musical stamping ground, and I’m not accustomed to hearing my own English voice shouting so unselfconsciously into the political wind (though I gather from Troy’s frequent references to such music on New Right Forum that there is a thriving sub-culture in statements of this sort).

After a couple of plays stubborness got the upper hand, I’m glad to say.  I was reminded of a moment towards the end of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, which I read thirty-five years ago, where the colours of the defeated French are ceremonially lowered before General Kutouzov, with all his Grand Army, a monument to stubborness, looking on.  I think the real event occurred after the Battle of Maloyaroslavets.  Anyway, Tolstoy has it that as the colours are lowered the company wait in silence for the words of their great chief.  None, however, come.  Instead he, well knowing the spirit of the common soldier, issues an almighty oath and turns his horse away.  The men assembled across the hillsides hear and understand, and they respond in kind with a long and faithful roar.

This crude vigour lives in our people, too.  The elegant flutterings of the intellectual lepidoptera never call it forth.  But music does, and it is here in this song.

“There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.”

Irving Krystol

Many watchful MR readers will have come across the following court report.  I say watchful because it appeared initially in the most out of the way and journalistically humble place, the Colne News Column of Pendle Today, date 6th October.

Chemicals Find

TWO Pendle men have appeared before Pennine magistrates accused of having “a master plan” after what is believed to be a record haul of chemicals used in making home-made bombs was found in Colne.

Robert Cottage (49), of Talbot Street, Colne, and David Bolus Jackson (62), of Trent Road, Nelson, made separate appearances before the court charged with being in possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose. The offences are under the Explosive Substances Act 1883.

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Did you, perhaps, dream as a youngster of becoming a professional sportsman?  It would only be natural.  Well, I would like you to imagine that the dream came true … at least, if the dream was to be play soccer.  I want you to imagine yourself as a regular team guy in a professional squad - not a star perhaps and not in the top flight.  But you are out there in front of the fans every Saturday afternoon of the season, fighting for another win.

But … wins are becoming harder to come by just lately.  There have been mistakes … mis-hit back passes, poor positioning, a bad penalty-giveaway.  Just dumb stuff, but none of it, as it happens, yours.

Still, points have been lost.  The expected good finish in the table … the possibility of promotion, is slipping away.  Worse, your win bonuses have suffered.  There is pressure on everyone – a lot of it - and especially on the boss.

Then, say, in match preparation at the ground one cold, wet Saturday morning he – let’s call him Stan - sends three of the guys to the gym to do some light weight work.  It doesn’t make sense.  He’s never done that before.

The rest of the players he calls together.

“OK, guys,” Stan says, ”now I want you to listen carefully to me.  Don’t any of you interrupt.  This is important.

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