The emotional subject of white American resettlement out of the south-west has been featuring here pretty regularly of late.  James has posted some related material.  But most of the energy for this discussion is on the threads where the chief proponent of resettlement is GT, who you will recall also guest-blogged for us on black serial killers three weeks ago.

Now, the 5th April issue of Nature is carrying a feature that will greatly interest GT.  The headline, “Return of the dustbowl”, is alarmist and doesn’t really do credit to the seriousness of the research.  But here’s the straight from the shoulder payoff:-

The drought that spawned the great American Dust Bowl of the 1930s may become the new climatic norm for much of the southwestern United States and other subtropical regions of the world. In a report published today, researchers in the United States and Israel project an imminent increase in aridity in subtropical regions over the next century, which will affect several important agricultural regions.

The results indicate that growing drought in the southwest is a problem that is likely to affect agriculture. “This is something that is already under way. It’s not an end of the twenty-first century thing where we have the luxury to sit around and wait,” says Richard Seager, a climatologist with the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in New York, who led the 13-member research team ...

“This is a robust prediction that’s been backed by observation,” says Dennis Hartmann, a climatologist in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. “It seems like a reasonable scenario for the future.”

The implications for such a drying are far-reaching. California, for instance, accounts for approximately 16% of all US agricultural exports. Seager suggests that North American farmers need to rethink certain agricultural practices, including adopting more water-efficient irrigation systems such as those being used in Israel.

And, where there are water shortages, there is also the potential for political conflict. “As Mark Twain wrote, ‘Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over’,” says Seager. Mexico depends on water originating from the Colorado River, he notes, whereas Iraq and Syria depend on the waters of the Euphrates, which originate in Turkey. Cross-border conflicts are likely to arise as these streams of water dry up.

It is not, therefore, at all unreasonable to posit, as GT does, that ethnic competition in the south-west will centre on water - and thus food - availability.  Watch for the early signs that others, who may not intend white Americans much good, understand both this and the need to secure the situation for themselves first.

In May 2005 a generally good review of Frank Salter’s On Genetic Interests appeared here.  It is by Pierre van den Berghe, the Congolese-born Belgian sociologist who coined the term, ethnic nepotism.  I hope that the following reproduction of that review will interest and inform MR readers.  It is interspersed with a brief commentary by JW.

This is the kind of book which social scientists should read if they ever hope to become literate about human biology and its implications for our social behaviour. For many, if not most social scientists, human sociobiology (or evolutionary psychology, or behavioural ecology, or ethology, or whatever label you want to give to the biology of behaviour) is simply anathema, on both theoretical and ideological grounds. However, increasing minorities of anthropologists, psychologists, economists, political scientists and sociologists are beginning to absorb the social implications of human evolution and genetics. All ideological trends, by the way, are represented among these ‘revisionists’.

Salter’s book is divided into three parts. First, he expands W. D. Hamilton’s ‘inclusive kinship’ theory to ethnies. Then he draws the policy implications of ethnic nepotism. Finally, he concludes with the ethics thereof. No summary can do justice to a work so rich and novel in content, but let me try.

Of course, appeal to authority is not a logical argument.  But it is encouraging that guys like van den Berghe and E.O.Wilson have commented favorably on Salter’s work and have not, for example, compared it to Jack D Ripper ranting about “precious bodily fluids” in the movie Dr. Strangelove

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From the Wikipedia page on Plato’s Republic, commenting upon the inappropriateness of the title as given in English:-

An ancient Greek politeia was considered to be a way of life; so in actuality a proper translation would be ‘how we live as people’

How we live ... we.  In ways we all understand, the whole of the 20th Century was a working out of the question of how we may live, justly, as people of the modern era.  The answer to which postmodernity, ably assisted by certain interested parties, seems to have brought us is that our children’s generation and all the generations that follow them shall never take up arms against their neighbour nor threaten the Jewish destiny nor enslave the backward African. 

For these, the worst sins in the world, our children shall be of a people no more.  They shall be consigned to racial anonymity.  One among many, they shall be atomised individuals laying claim no more to the lands of their fathers.  Their lives shall be lighted no more by the ancient, natural virtues of dignity and honour, which all European peoples have held dear, but by a petty tolerance, fairness and false decency.  Mindless work shall fill the daylight hours and dedicated consumerism shall follow.  Drinking, drug-taking, gambling, football shall dull their senses, analgaesia in consolation for the loss of everything.

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The following racial diagram is derived from the genetic data (no “self identified race” is used as input) via a technique called “GAMOVA” in a paper by Caroline M. Nievergelt, Ondrej Libiger and Nicholas J. Schork titled “Generalized Analysis of Molecular Variance”:

This isn’t the first time genetic correlation structure has shown that race precedes the “social construction of race”.  Andrew D. Skol et al in “An Algorithm to Construct Genetically Similar Subsets of Families with the Use of Self-Reported Ethnicity Information” used a computer program called STRUCTURE to demonstrate that the genetic data contains the correlation structures prior to “socially constructed” race and matches that “social construct” very closely.

However, in the abstract for “Generalized Analysis of Molecular Variance” we read:

However, many of these strategies are either rooted in cluster analysis techniques, and hence suffer from problems inherent to the assignment of the biological and statistical meaning to resulting clusters, or have formulations that do not permit easy and intuitive extensions. We describe a very general approach to the problem of assessing genetic background diversity that extends the analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) strategy introduced by Excoffier and colleagues some time ago. As in the original AMOVA strategy, the proposed approach, termed generalized AMOVA (GAMOVA)

So a question to the more technically literate readers:

How do these techniques compare in their results and how might their differences affect the potential for Removing Lewontin’s Fallacy From Hamilton’s Rule, hence extending the theory of Ethnic Genetic Interests and providing a stronger foundation for Universal Nationalism?

The Jerusalem Post reports that:

The new Symantec figure does not mean that a high proportion of Israel’s 3.7 million Internet users engage in “malicious activities,” cautioned Reznik. [Ricardo Reznik, vice president for Marketing at Rosh Ha’ayin-based TrekIT—JAB]

Although Israel tops the ranking in per capita Internet abuse, in absolute terms it does not even place in the top 10, lagging far behind the top-ranked USA, the world’s largest Web market, which accounts for 31% of the malicious activity.

This doublespeak is just too cute:

A high “proportion of…users” is not a high “per capita” according to one of Israel’s top authorities on Internet security (according to the Jerusalem Post).

Just to be clear on what a “high proportion” is, they tell us to look “in absolute terms [Israel] does not even place in the top 10”.

How perfect…

Even ignoring the relative transparency of the attempt to obfuscate the statistics—an endearingly minor rhetorical crime compared to the standards set by movements documented in MacDonald’s “The Culture of Critique”—this is one reason I am an Oslo Accord Zionist.  Various people make statements about “Jews” as a group, but what better way to test those predictions than the behavior of a Jewish national ecology?

Please, I’m not being coy or sarcastic here.  I genuinely think Zionism is the most admirable aspect of Jewish character and I’m not being sarcastic or coy there either.  I’m saying a lot.  High verbal intelligence of the Ashkenazim Jews is another admirable trait of Jews and is nothing to be sniffed at (verbal IQ is the best predictor of economic development in a nation).  Zionism is honest.  Zionism tests Jewish character.  Zionism provides Jews much fewer excuses for failure and much more difficult routes by which accounts of “human accomplishment” may be confused with parasitism of others.  Zionism is anti-vectorist.

Zionist Jews who are honest enough about their Jewish identity to actually move to Israel, unlike the essentially hypocritical Zionist diaspora Jews, should not be a scape goat for the activities of diaspora Jews.  That’s just too easy, and ultimately intellectually dishonest of Jews (like Soros) and “anti-semites” alike.

Life and blogging are sometimes unpredictable.  A week ago I put up a fairly extensive post on metapolitics and Man.  In it I drew together some strands of what, in my addled brain, passes for philosophical thought.  There was nothing there that hasn’t been aired before at MR, and none of it was very remarkable, no doubt.

Even so, whenever one goes out on a limb in this way it is always with an expectation that the most godawful humiliation lies just around the corner.  After all, we are intellectual gunslingers of a sort and MR is, if not Dodge City exactly, certainly somewhere the tumbleweed rolls.

So after posting the piece I waited, as one does, for the saloon doors to swing open and the fun to start.  I was disappointed.

Then two days ago I posted an innocuous little piece about the popular redefinition of language not by the left now, and still less by the incompetent right, but by our children.  This wasn’t a controversial or dangerous post.  It was intended as light reading.  My holster stayed hanging on the hook behind the door.  So why, pray, have so many people taken it upon themselves to start shooting?

In a word, Wintermute, I suppose.  But, really, all he did was to light up an unmissably large target for lots of MR folks who really, really don’t like neoliberalism.  Quite right too.  I am a bit embarrassed to point out that none of what WM had to say, and none of the gunfire that followed, was aimed anywhere near where I take my philosophical stand.

I don’t want to repeat here all the remarks I made in my post of last week.  I do want to say that even the best understanding of the C-word that the thinking American right can offer does not include my meaning - which, anyway, is less political than metapolitical, less about “conserving” than according with our nature.

Here, then, is my meaning:-

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As I’ve previously hypothesized, the amygdala is a likely target for parasitic castration, which may partially explain the otherwise mysterious rise of autism, a disease affecting boys more than girls, in areas high in south Asian immigrants. 

Now we discover a specific pathogen, Toxoplasma gondiis, has evolved to not just attack the amygdala, but do so with such surgical precision that it has few noticeable side effects on the victims:

Rats infected with the parasite became mildly attracted to bobcat pee. However, they remained as fearful of open spaces as normal rats. They reacted normally to sound cues that suggested mild electrical shocks were coming. Normally rats are somewhat reticent when it comes to eating food that smells unfamiliar. And the infected rats were, just like the normal rats, reticent when it came to food scented with the unfamiliar odor of coriander.

“One would thus assume that if something messes up with fear to cat pee, it will also mess up a variety of related behaviors,” Vyas said. “We do not see that. Toxoplasma affects fear to cat odors with almost surgical precision.”

Where was this brain surgery located?

Vyas’s team looked at the distribution of the parasite in the brain of infected rats, and found it was almost twice as dense in the amygdala.

Does this mean Toxoplasma gondii is responsible for the rise of autism?  No.  It means, however, that the theory that “surgical” operations on the amygdala might be a form of parasitic castration is more likely than it would be in the absence of such clear parasitic targeting of the amygdala.  Moreover, Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted to humans from cat feces.

How likely is it that an intestinal parasite endemic to South Asia might have migrated to Euroman’s major technology centers along with the rise of affirmative action (both in India and in the US) in bringing many more “engineers” to the US from India’s lower castes via the dispossession of US technologists during the rise of H-1b visas, not to mention support personnel for said Indian immigrants such as restaurant workers?

If likely, we might expect to see an association between autism and intestinal pathology.

In his most recent Commentary article “Jewish Genius”, Charles Murray spends pages speculating about why Jews excel, only to end with this:

At this point, I take sanctuary in my remaining hypothesis, uniquely parsimonious and happily irrefutable. The Jews are God’s chosen people.

All well and good but he still can’t discuss at precisely what they excel because he’s afraid he must subtract.

To quote Kevin MacDonald:

The dispossession of Europeans is the ultimate defeat — an evolutionary event of catastrophic proportions for people of European descent. Whatever the contributions of Jewish “entrepreneurs, jurists, philanthropists, entertainers, publishers, and legions upon legions of scholars,” they could never make up for this cataclysmic loss

In other words, he’s afraid he’ll have to explain exactly why God hates Scotch Irish Iowans like Murray and myself so much as to “choose” such people for us to live with.

Perhaps Charles Murray would do well to drop the pretensions that the story of Moses and Exodus are true and consider the consequences of being not merely “nomadic” but a tribe with multinational urban populations since Babylonian times.  If he did while at the same time learning to subtract, he might infer not only how “persecution” of Jews could be much older than many now think, but he might see, much more importantly, how to inhibit their virulence—described so graphically and succinctly by Kevin MacDonald.

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