How gratifying when some geek researches an area of extreme and totally unacceptable male prejudice, and only ... confirms it.  Plus, in this case, an unexpected bonus.

From the Mail article, with apologies for the eggregious use of dishonest homosexual labels:-

Gay men are as bad as women at navigating, research has shown.  Both share the same poor sense of direction and rely on local landmarks to get around, a study suggests.  They are also slower to take in spatial information than heterosexual men.

... researchers say it is likely to make driving in a strange environment more challenging for gay men and women than for straight male motorists.

Psychologists at Queen Mary, University of London, conducted computer-based tests of spatial learning and memory on 140 volunteers recruited through advertisements in newspapers and magazines.  They showed that gay men, straight women and lesbians navigated in much the same way and shared the same weaknesses.  But there were also differences between gay and heterosexual men and straight and lesbian women.

The Queen Mary team, led by Dr Qazi Rahman, used virtual reality simulations of two common tests of spatial learning and memory developed at Yale University. In one,

... the Morris Water Maze (MWM) test, volunteers were placed in a “virtual pool” and had to “swim” through a maze to find a hidden submerged platform.  Cues in the form of pictures, doorways, a lamp, a bookcase and other landmarks were sited in different places.

The other task,

... the Radial Arm Maze test (RAM), involved finding “rewards” - musical tones - by exploring eight “arms” radiating out from a circular central junction. Four arms contained a reward and four did not, and participants had to avoid traversing an arm more than once.

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Most of us would be willing to sacrifice our lives in a war if necessary to stop the Old Media’s tyranny over our people’s minds, but few of us can see a clear means of accomplishing this since our people’s minds are driven primarily by our morals and the Old Media controls the morals imprinted on our people far more than any Christian church ever did.  We could go around blowing the brains out of news anchors, spreading hypercarcinogens in ventilation systems of Hollywood repaying—in some small part —what their images do to our peoples, mugging editors on the streets then killing them for their pocket change to pay for gas, food and lodging to get to the next serial “spiking”, etc. but it would merely be turned against us by the Old Media running endless “news stories” and making endless streams of “docudramas” portraying us as baby-eating perverts worthy of slow death by torture at best and “therapy” at worst—thereby strengthening the bondage of our people’s minds.

What to do?

Perhaps the Ron Paul grassroots campaign has demonstrated something we can do to bridle the old media beast…

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The widely circulated article “The Israeli Defense Company That Tallies the Iowa Caucus” may be a poison pill of sorts.  It makes the claim that the firm, Voxeo, that did the final count of Iowa caucus votes during 2004, was bought by the Israeli defense contractor Elron Electronics.  This ownership link may be a false claim according to a colleague:

I’m familiar with Voxeo; however, it doesn’t appear that Voxeo is
owned by Elron, though it’s true that the CEO, J Taylor, did sell his
earlier company to Elron. Chris Bollyn dropped the ball here, unless he can
prove that Voxeo is owned by Elron, which doesn’t;t appear to be the case.

Not that there aren’t many other reasons to be suspicious of the tally but this particular “link” is likely to be used to discredit legitimate suspicions if it is indeed a false link.

I am more of a Schopenhaurian than a Nietzscheian, and more of a Darwinian than a Schopenhaurian.  But the following two-part, 24-minute video by Alain de Botton is a populist introduction to the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.  It comes with Norman Lowell’s approval, so it has to be worth a post here.

Part One

Part Two

and, with thanks to skeptical ...

Paert Three

Thanks for keeping us company these past 12 months.  It’s been, I think, a pretty static year, as these things go.  Certainly no 2005.  But in my patch, at least, there has been an outbreak of honest talk in the press.  The genie is out of the bottle, and it won’t be put back.  The consequences of that will become clear in the year ahead.

Read about it here.

Good luck to you all.

There has been a lot of noise in the Old Media lately about a post to VNN by one “Bill White”—self-proclaimed leader of some obscure “white nationalist” organization(s)—supposedly “outing” Ron Paul as a white nationalist.

I’ve run across many white nationalists who think Bill White is, at best, a lone wolf with severe psychological problems and, at worst, an agent provocateur for the Mossad.  I’ve never run across a white nationalist with a verifiable identity that takes Bill White seriously.

If you have knowledge of the real situation regarding Bill White and/or his claims that Ron Paul is a white nationalist, please post them in a comment to this blog post and provide also some pointers to the “real world”—for verification so we can authenticate your claim.  The “real world” pointer could be as simple as your real identity so we can investigate whether you are yet another plant.

Musings from December 25, 2001…

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by David Hamilton

Conservatism was an attempt to preserve traditional ways and differed from Liberalism but became Liberal, Classical then Social Democratic - abstract rights, capitalism, economics, laissez faire and self interest- now Cultural Marxism.

Like the other parties they offer the electorate incentives to get into power and at election time pretend they will introduce popular policies like controlling immigration but once in office pursue their own agenda. This should be a criminal offence and the Party name subject to trading standards law.

Academic Conservatives have tried to revive Conservatism by turning it into a competing ideology but it has no goal only living life by belonging to a historical community and culture and passing it on to one’s children. It is not a different opinion in a rational debate but an attitude and temperament in life. Rational plans and formulae are for the rationalist-ideologues: which is why these are “intimations” not a blueprint and cannot be stated a priori like utopian ideologies. There is more to human nature than reason.

It is not just reaction to current dominant doctrines nor a rejection of future utopias as fantasy in order to re-live a past utopia, not an attempt to turn back the clock to a bygone time but is a traditional way of thinking and feeling for one’s own ethnic community. The turning point is now as we who feel alienated and dispossessed begin re-developing a tradition for our common good and to revive our collapsing civilisation. We value wisdom over rationalist ideologies.

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