Tucson, Arizona is known for its cowboys.  I recall visiting there circa 1990 and seeing civilians walking the streets with holstered fire arms.  With that sort of culture, I don’t think you can simply dismiss some of the threats, that are made within this town meeting, against the vicious traitors running Tucson these days:

Click here for Russel Dove’s street confrontation videos.

Two new experiences for me over the last few days have been commenting at the Guardian - twice - and at Alex Linder’s blog.

The Guardian stuff was a little tricky in terms of striking a publishable note.  But there was something very familiar about the thinking of its commenters.  A bit like Samizdata without the guns.  Or maybe This Inverted World without the race-realism (hell, when I think about it, I get into trouble every place I go).  But one of our wise and honoured commentariat said it was possible to get published on the Guardian threads, and he was right.

The second new experience was just a single comment on a very good Michael O’Meara piece at VNN.  It was his take on Le Pen’s disappointing result - superior to my effort on the same subject, I think.  Michael is a deep thinker, and I suspect that he understands as much about the desirability of a synthesis between a philosophy of the right and racial nationalism as any man in America.

Today, the VNN blog (not the main page) put up a post that read “VNNForum.com Arranging New Server:”.  VNN’s existing hoster had informed them that “The content on your sites is not something that we are able to accept or are willing to host here at cari.net.  Per our CEO your account will be terminated immediately.”

That’s something you’ll never read at the Guardian.  But you’ll never read Michael O’Meara, either.

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The Middle East Times ran a nice piece of disinformation on 16th April about the thousands of Iranians who ...

visit a new Holocaust Web site in Farsi run by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, despite their leadership’s questioning the Nazi genocide of Jews, the museum said.”

... The Web site was put online by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in January, and has so far had some 25,100 visits, including 12,170 from inside Iran, spokeswoman Estee Yaari said.

It includes 20 historical chapters on World War II, the Nazi regime, the systematic killings, and photos from the Nazi death camps and ghettos.

“We believe that making credible, comprehensive information about the Holocaust available to Persian speakers can contribute to the fight against Holocaust denial,” said Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev.

Iran’s firebrand president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has branded the systematic killing of 6 million of Europe’s Jews as a “myth,” and last year Tehran hosted a controversial revisionist Holocaust conference, sparking an international outcry.

Shalev calls the Web site a powerful tool against Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric, which has included calls for the Jewish state to be “wiped off the map.”

So let’s look at this “powerful tool”.  It isn’t clear, actually, whether the “25,100 visits” are unique visitors or just hits.  I presume that Yad Vashem isn’t too fussy about the difference and these are just hits - in which case the site is doing in three months about half what MR, also a specialised facility, pulls in a single day.

Now, the visitor figure for “Iranians” is less than half of the total.  But ... there are up to 40,000 Persian Jews in Iran who might be expected to have a greater than average interest in the site.

So how many Ahmadinejad-apostates is Yad Vashem really celebrating?  Based on our profile of visitors I would guess the site receives about 80 unique visitors per day from within Iran.  Of those half could easily be Jews, and of the remainder the preponderant majority are there in the expectation of sampling a Jewish deception.

The article quotes two visitor messages of support but doesn’t, of course, specify whether the authors were ethnic Iranians or Jews.  However, let us give them the benefit of the doubt.  They have had at least two successes for their trouble.

The population of Iran is 71 million.  But what the heck, there’s always a bit of good publicity to be got out of it.

Oh yes, and one more thing.  Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be wiped off the map.  His words were, “Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement.”

Yad Vashem, being a temple of historical fidelity, really should be able to get that right.  If it’s interest was in doing so.

Since a raciosexual cause seems supported by the circumstances of the Virginia Tech massacre, I decided to pursue that hypothesis by looking at all major US college massacres since Generation X started going to college.  I chose Generation X because it was the first generation to experience, during college age, the severe raciosexual repercussions of the radical, government mandated, experiments on humans conducted in US colleges by the combination of immigration and integration laws passed in the mid 1960s, along with the sexual revolution, feminism and gay liberation.

If the raciosexual cause hypothesis is accurate, I expected to see more East Asian perps than their percentage on campus. 

What I found was that:

• 4 of 4 college massacres since Generation X entered college were committed by immigrants.
• East Asians vastly exceeded expectations at 3 out of 4. 
• Europeans were vastly underrepresented at 0 out of 4.
• Africans committed 1 out of 4.

The African anomaly appears accounted for by a different model as his age was 43—not prime sexual competition age:

This means that we may need to look for a combination of causes that includes the general destabilization resulting from immigration, interacting with the raciosexual model in which East Asian males experience intense sexual stress during their young years due to the presence of highly diverse environments in US upper education.

From the Jerusalem Post:-

In the face of Iran’s race to obtain nuclear weapons, the Israel Air Force has expressed newfound interest in receiving the F-22 - a US-developed fifth generation stealth fighter jet - and has requested that the Defense Ministry present the request on its behalf to the Pentagon, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

While the sale or transfer of F-22s to Israel did not come up in talks Wednesday between Defense Minister Amir Peretz and US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, defense officials told the Post that Israel would ask to receive the aircraft in order to retain its “military edge” in the Middle East.

... The F-22 formally entered operational service in the US Air Force in December 2005 but has not yet been sold outside the US due to a federal law which barred export sale of the aircraft.

Last March, however, Congress lifted the nine-year ban on its sale, potentially clearing the path for an Israeli purchase of what is considered the most advanced fighter jet in the world today.

The single-seater, double-engine aircraft can achieve stealth though a combination of its shape, composite materials, color and other integrated systems.

A positive US decision on the issue in the coming months could see the F-22 in Israel by the end of decade, years before the IAF is expected to begin receiving the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) - another stealth fighter under development - also known as the F-35, expected in 2014.

On Thursday, Gates tried to ease Israeli concerns about the planned American weapons sale to Saudi Arabia as well as other US Gulf allies, saying that Washington remained committed to preserving Israel’s military edge over its neighbors.

Gates also said his 24-hour trip to Israel did not include any discussions on taking military action against Iran. He reiterated his belief that diplomacy was the best course of action for halting Iran’s nuclear program.

In her talks with Gates, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned that the countries under threat from Iran were testing the Free World and vacillation was perceived as weakness. This might create a desire to appease Iran, she said. Livni cautioned that only the determination of the international community would keep the “moderate camp” on the same side.

“We live in a neighborhood in which a projected image is very meaningful,” she said. “If the impression is that the world is losing to the ‘neighborhood bully,’ they will want to join him.” Before leaving Israel, Gates visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, accompanied by Peretz.

If Israel acquires the F22 by the end of the decade that will intersect nicely with Iran’s anticipated roll-out of nuclear weapons.  The F22 was originally conceived as an air superiority fighter for use against the soviet airforce.  But it is equipped now for ground attack.  It certainly isn’t a very pretty airplane.  But strangely, prettyness never bothered the “neighbourhood bullies” of, for example, Lebanon.  2009 looks to be the earliest date when the bullies of Iran will also receive their due.

The largest turnout for over fifty years has produced a conventional Socialist v Conservative pairing for the 2nd round of the French presidential election, which will take place on 6th May.

It will be interesting to see if/how Sarkozy’s “right-wing action man” image is reworked from here.  Its success in bleeding away the support for Le Pen is now apparent.  It should have been so beforehand really, since its corollary - the rank hatred from the “anyone but Sarko” camp - certainly was.

For French nationalists the Le Pen vote of 11.5% holds little promise for the future.  His high-water mark of 22% in 2002 will haunt his successor.  The French liberal Establishment can draw three conclusions:

1) Their greatest electoral enemy is low turnout.  Providing the bulk of the electorate carry on believing that conventional politics will solve their problems, a high turnout - this one was 84% - will always work for them.

2) If after the eighteen days of the Paris riots and the vote against the EU Constitution the French people still support the political centre, there is virtually nothing that can threaten them.

3) Incorporating FN ideas into public discourse works against political nationalism.  It now remains to be seen how much of Sarkozy’s “I won’t betray you” promises to FN supporters and Royal’s wrapping herself in le tricolor will feed through to the victor’s presidential policy.  For the reason of No.2 above, very little, I would say.

The FN itself has an impossible task before it.  The softening of Jean-Marie’s language under the guidance of his youngest daughter, Marine, has benefitted it nothing.  I doubt now that Marine can succeed him to the party leadership.  In reality no one can.  He was a giant of nationalist politics, and without him the Party surely risks further electoral marginalisation from here.  As a producer of ideas for popular consumption perhaps it will continue to have some success.

But only nationalists execute nationalist policy.  And that’s what would save France.

... Watch PBS from 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm on Wednesday, April 25.  That 90 minutes will actually save you time because you’ll never watch television news again - not even on PBS.

Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln wearing a flight suit and delivered a speech in front of a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner. He was hailed by media stars as a “breathtaking” example of presidential leadership in toppling Saddam Hussein. Despite profound questions over the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House’s claim that the war was won. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews declared, “We’re all neo-cons now;” NPR’s Bob Edwards said, “The war in Iraq is essentially over;” and Fortune magazine’s Jeff Birnbaum said, “It is amazing how thorough the victory in Iraq really was in the broadest context.”

How did the mainstream press get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein to 9-11 continue to go largely unreported? “What the conservative media did was easy to fathom; they had been cheerleaders for the White House from the beginning and were simply continuing to rally the public behind the President — no questions asked. How mainstream journalists suspended skepticism and scrutiny remains an issue of significance that the media has not satisfactorily explored,” says Moyers. “How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from propaganda?”

On Wednesday, April 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS, a new PBS series BILL MOYERS JOURNAL premieres at a special time with “Buying the War,” a 90-minute documentary that explores the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.

From Bill Moyers journal.