There are two basic hypotheses explaining the profound disparity between Ron Paul’s online popularity and his dismal showing in “scientific” polls:

1) New Media users are profoundly different from the populous in their preferences for President.

2) The Old Media is profoundly biased against the populous’s real preferences for President but the populous is so dependent on the Old Media for information that the populous finds itself effectively unrepresented at election time.

What would be a fair test of these two hypotheses?

If #2 is correct, an election isn’t an adequate test since it is merely reflects the anti-democratic biases of the Old Media, so we can’t really conclude anything from an election in which a “long shot” candidate is defeated.

I would suggest that a real scientific poll wouldn’t ask people about which candidate they prefer, but rather work like a dating service, asking people about their preferences: matching the preferences of the people to the positions of the candidates.

By comparing the outcome of this position preference poll to the outcome of the current “scientific” polls of people asked to choose from among candidates, we would see a measure of the degree to which the people were being mislead by the Old Media.

To construct the questionnaire properly, see Why the Political Compass is Inherently Vectorist and How to Correct It.  The result of comparing “scientific” pick-a-candidate polls to such a match up between the policy positions of candidates and voters would be a measure of how much, and in what policy dimensions (and directions in those dimensions), the media is biased.

The trial of Iyad Albattikhi at Preston Crown Court came to a close today when, after 10 days of deliberations, the jury was unable to reach a verdict.  Justice Henriques:-

told them: “It is with very great regret I discharge you from returning a verdict. There will be a retrial.

“I would like to thank you for the very, very conscientious way you have gone about this case.”

He praised them for being “highly professional” in the midst of “continuous tensions and pressure”.

Mr Henriques thanked the Downes family for the “admirable way they had conducted themselves” throughout the hearing.

He added that the retrial was likely to take place around January next year and would be at Preston Crown Court or Manchester Crown Court.

Charlene’s mother and father spoke briefly to reporters on the steps of the courthouse (video).

The outcome is, perhaps, not surprising given the quality of the evidence presented to the court.  In the absence of DNA evidence, an audio recording of the barely distinguishable voices of Albattikhi and his business partner Mohammed Reveshi seems to have been the principal exhibit.  The two men denied even knowing Charlene, and claimed that references to her on the recording were totally innocent and misunderstood.  In the normal course of things, and assuming that no new evidence is unearthed by Lancashire Police, this should be enough to see them escape conviction next year.

I would very much like to know the ethnic make-up of the twelve men and women of the jury, and how they divided in the jury room.  I would also like to know whether the accepted fact of child abuse by “some of the men” working in the takeaways frequented by Charlene and other girls has triggered a police investigation.  I doubt it.  Other instances of grooming of white girls by Moslems in England’s northern towns have been ignored by police.  They would, after all, generate the “continuous tensions and pressure” referred to by Justice Henriques.

Investment bankers begging the Fed to lower interest rates while inflation is rising is the scenario, driven by destruction of the middle class and loss of the US dollar’s world reserve currency status, that I predicted a year ago could, by now, start showing signs of hyperinflation.  Well—I was wrong because the other shoe has not dropped yet: Lowering of interest rates by the Fed to stop what Jim Cramer‘s above video meltdown refers to as financial “Armageddon”.

Will the Fed really let deflationary depression set in, ala the 1930’s, rather than the Wiemar situation that I thought more likely?

Doreen Lawrence, OBE, mother of Saint Stephen, speaketh mutlicultural wisdom and the world doth quake:-

Boris Johnson is not an appropriate person to run a multicultural city like London.  Think of London, the richness of London, and having someone like him as mayor would destroy the city’s unity.  He is definitely not the right person to even be thinking to put his name forward.

Those people that think he is a lovable rogue need to take a good look at themselves, and look at him.  I just find his remarks very offensive.  I think once people read his views, there is no way he is going to get the support of any people in the black community.

So Boris Johnson is aiming to defeat the racial Marxist and white self-hater Ken Livingstone, and become Mayor of my sad, meaningless capital city.  Fine.  But let’s get one thing straight.  Boris is a liberal Tory.  He is on message.  Really.  His campaign team said so:-

[He] loathes racism in all its forms.

Naturally.  Don’t we all flop down and loathe, loathe, loathe five times a day, just like the jihadis?  Except one faces Eltham, of course.

Not that it does Boris any good.  He just can’t flop down enough for the likes of Labour’s black female MP’s:-

Dawn Butler and Diane Abbott, Labour MPs for Brent South and Hackney North respectively, said his views on race harked back to the 1950s.

... Ms Butler highlighted a 2002 article in which Mr Johnson referred to the Queen being greeted in Commonwealth countries by “flag-waving piccaninnies”.

She claimed he also said that he expected, during a mooted visit by Tony Blair to the Congo, that “the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief”

Ms Butler, whose Brent South constituency is the most ethnically diverse in the UK, said: “These are disgraceful comments that shame Boris Johnson and shame the Conservative Party.

“This is the most offensive language of the colonial past and it shows that the Tory party is riddled with racial prejudice.

“No one with such views can be the mayor of a city with the largest black population in Britain.”

Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, said: “David Cameron is fooling himself if he thinks that Boris Johnson’s 1950s attitudes to race will be acceptable to Londoners, both black and white.”

Well, keep shouting, girls.  Keep pushing the racial unity line at the top of your testosterone-modulated voices.  Let’s see if you are right that English London loves its NuLab vibrancy as much as you say.  First signs are not encouraging.  The Independent leader reported a poll that gave Boris a clear lead over Livingstone.

Thanks to Micheal R for the link to this super-zivian tale of a Jewish psychologist.  The Jewish News Weekly hits all the right buttons, so I will just post it and refrain from further comment.

Psychologist: BOYS FROM SINGLE MOTHER, LESBIAN FAMILIES TURN OUT FINE

According to research psychologist Peggy Drexler, boys will be boys, whether dad’s around or not.

In her book “Raising Boys Without Men,” Drexler details the results of her years-long study of single mothers and lesbian couples. Her most striking conclusion: It’s possible, even likely, that boys from those families will grow up emotionally stronger and more well-rounded than boys from traditional mom-and-dad households.

Drexler will be making several appearances at local bookstores and at a reception sponsored by the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation.

“What surprised me,” says the former San Francisco resident, “was that these mothers were establishing a creative new way of parenting. Good parenting was not anchored to gender.”

She also discovered that the boys in her study formed multiple healthy attachments with male role models other than their fathers, were deeply involved with sports, were diligent about completing household chores and related to women with respect and openness.

“That was the other thing that surprised me,” she says. “The boys were very savvy, with a lot of empathy and sensitivity to themselves and others.”

Drexler studied two populations, single mothers (by choice or circumstance) and lesbian co-moms. Her subjects for the latter group all lived in the Bay Area, and a large number of them were affiliated Jews.

Jewish herself (she formerly belonged to S.F.’s Congregation Sherith Israel), Drexler observed that Jewish families in her study “very much felt that the Jewish spiritual values would provide a strong sense of respect for community.”

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We all know the theory, that Jews are parasites on other nations, has some corollaries such as their tendency to lack a Yeoman class (and therefore hype the mythology of the Jewish peasantry right when they are participating in the destruction of a nation’s family farms, and grabbing the farmers’ daughters, as they were during the entry of the baby boomers to female fertility).  It is therefore gratifying to see that Zionism as the cure for Jewish virulence seems to be paying off for the Jews:

Rise of Israel’s Orthodox Schools Sparks Fear of Army, Work Force Shortage
Study: One-Third of Jewish Students Will Receive Haredi Education in 2012

Daphna Berman | Fri. Aug 03, 2007
Jerusalem - Two recently released government reports have reignited scrutiny of ultra-Orthodox participation in general Israeli society.

A study released last month by the Central Bureau of Statistics predicts that one-third of all Jewish elementary-school students in Israel will be enrolled in the ultra-Orthodox education system by 2012. A week after the education study was released, the Israeli military reported that the number of eligible 18-year-old men not enlisting in the army had sharply risen to one-quarter, nearly half of them ultra-Orthodox.

The findings have alarmed many secular Israelis, who warn that the government-subsidized education system for ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim, is creating a generation of students unequipped to enter the job market and unwilling to serve in the army.

It’s a different game entirely when you have responsibility for the country you occupy isn’t it?  What a relief it would be for Jews to face these realities, cast off the parasitic ways of the diaspora and become a true nation again!

PS: I did not see the entry on The Fjordman Project before setting forth to post this blog entry.  I make no bones about being hostile to the Jewish diaspora that sees itself as “the light unto the nations” while exhibiting virulence virtually unmatched by any other people and I call “coward” all those, such as “Fjordman”, supporting Israel who are not, thus, “anti-semitic”.

Many internet sites that focus on the problems and dangers caused by the massive immigration into Europe of nonWestern and mainly Moslem peoples reject contributions by people who do not support Israel.

“Fjordman” is a well-known contributor to several of these sites and he has written an article that sums up the arguments why Europeans should support Israel. (Why Europeans Should Support Israel, Created 2007-03-12 07:49 Published on Brussels Journal.

I find “Fjordman’s” arguments in favor of making support for Israel a priority unpersuasive.

“Fjordman” asserts there is a powerful “anti-Israeli and sometimes outright anti-Semitic current that is prevalent in too much of Europe’s media”. “Fjordman” does not define what he means by “anti-Israeli” or “anti-Semitic” nor does he provide any examples of what he obviously wants his readers to believe are twinned thought-crimes.

Since expressing hostility against Jews, Moslems, or nonWesterners in general is subject to legal penalties in many European countries, I am not surprised that “Fjordman” evades his duty to provide examples of the alleged current.

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Heritage and Destiny is a quarterly magazine printed in England and promulgated by the rockface scalers of the England First Party and the British People’s Party.  It produces some good work, and an example was sent me today by Tom Sunic: a review of his Homo americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age by Peter Rushmore.

In the course of the review Rushmore observes Sunic’s treatment of Christian Zionism:-

Dr Sunic does not present Christian Zionism as some crude conspiracy of venal pastors and crypto-Jews. Nor does he view the U.S.-Zionist embrace (as more shallow analyses by more orthodox political commentators have tended to) as merely contingent on the ‘neoconservative’ reaction (developing out of early American Trotskyism) against Stalinist anti-Semitism.

His approach is to set Christian Zionism in the context of America’s broader political culture. Dr Sunic maintains that a fundamental deceit is at the core of the American system, just as it was behind the Iron Curtain. But most victims of Soviet tyranny had seen through the official lies decades before the system’s final collapse and had been only maintaining a polite fiction of believing in communist ideology.

... the Holocaust:-

Dr Sunic quotes Jean Baudrillard, the postmodernist critic of America, who has died since this book went to press, to support his argument that the “constant verbal and visual featuring of Jewish Holocaust symbolism” creates a “saturation process among the audience as was once the case with former Holocaust symbolism”. Relentless exterminationist propaganda, not to mention the vicious persecution of those who dissent from the dominant ideology, becomes self defeating.

In Baudrillard’s words even the image of Auschwitz itself - the holy of holies - becomes hyperreality: “not a site of annihilation but a medium of dissuasion”. In other words the exterminationists themselves eventually transform Auschwitz in the public mind from a “historical fact” to a propaganda or marketing tool.

... and, quoting from the text of Homo americanus itself, American anti-semitism:-

Yet Dr Sunic goes on, in a section which should be compulsory reading for many in the movement, especially the many varieties of Christian “anti-Semite”, to reject the most obvious forms of Jewish conspiracy theory.

“Blaming American Jews for extraterrestrial powers and their purported conspiracy to subvert Gentile culture borders on delusion and only reflects the absence of dialogue. American anti-Semitic delusions only provide legitimacy to American Jews in their constant search for a real or surreal anti-Semitic boogieman around the corner. Without the spectre of anti-Semitism, Jews would likely assimilate quickly and hence disappear. Thus, anti-Semitism provides Jews with alibis to project themselves as victims of Gentile prejudice. Consequently, it assigns them a cherished role of posing as the sole educational super-ego for Americans and by proxy the entire world.”

But many who read Sunic’s quite compact book will find not his stance on Jewry in America to be the most interesting thing about it but the deconstructionism that he commends for the postmodern American personality itself.  Rushmore merely notes:-

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