My thanks to Michael R for the latest on the long-running story of the gay sheep of Oregon:-

Science told: hands off gay sheep

Experiments that claim to ‘cure’ homosexual rams spark anger

SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of “gay” sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.

The technique being developed by American researchers adjusts the hormonal balance in the brains of homosexual rams so that they are more inclined to mate with ewes.

It raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual. Experts say that, in theory, the “straightening” procedure on humans could be as simple as a hormone supplement for mothers-to-be, worn on the skin like an anti-smoking nicotine patch.

So far so good.  But then the Times reports the reactions from a famous lesbian who won Wimbledon once or twice, a Professor of bioethics who seems, to judge from his blog, terribly interested in homosexuality (and doesn’t much like Iran), Peter Tatchell of the former Bermondsey bedsit tendency, and a spokesperson - or possibly spokes-sheep, it isn’t clear which - from animal rights group, PETA.

For some reason none of these people are advocates of parental rights.  Ovine, yes.  Homosexual, certainly.  Parents?  Children?  Not a chance.

It puts me in mind of a similar “debate” some years ago about a newly discovered and effective means to restore hearing function to certain deaf children.  The outrage from professional deafness advocates was very similar to the story here.  A hitherto undiscovered richness in deaf culture was noisily evoked.  We the public were asked to believe that something profoundly rewarding in signed interaction, something that weighed more heavily in the treasures of the personal life than the very voices of those one loves, would be lost to these children if the treatment was provided.  It was obviously untrue.  But then as now, nobody wanted to point out the reason for the deception: that it is unbearable for the disadvantaged, having fought perhaps all their lives to erect some semblance of self-respect and equal worth, to have this exposed as nothing by the simple mechanism of parental choice.  So unbearable is it, the antis will willingly deny new generations of children a normal life.

For such delusion to attend disability is no cause for our political satisfaction.  It is human farce upon human tragedy.  But it is also not really the point because rights of free speech and free association are taken from the majority not to raise others to some leftist utopia of joyous equality, but to deprive the majority of its healthy and natural cultural hegemony.  There is absolutely no morality in this, and no reason why we should hesitate to prick the “rights” balloon out of some newly learned Marxist sensibility.

Back in September I posted a piece titled Why we do it … and is it enough?.  It flowed from a call from Rusty Mason for less focus on analysis and news and more action.  The post generated a long and lively thread.  Too lively in parts.

Anyhow, on Svi’s Inverted World thread the same demand for a more pro-active way forward at and beyond MR has surfaced via a couple of suggestions: one from JB, to whit:-

How about creating a ‘Activism’ section ?  Debating and talking among ourselves is alright but we have to expand and bring more of our people to the cause.

How about making a movie reviews section?  It would probably bring more traffic to the site.

Is there anything we can do to help you get that radio/podcasting station done?  Will Steven Palese be a regular?

... and the second from Lurker:-

Its been said before - do movie reviews on IMDb.com and vote for those you approve of.  Reviews that more people ‘find useful’ in imdb parlance get pushed up the ranks, just like on Amazon (who own IMDb).  They could be cross-posted here too.  If we knew they were there (on IMDb) we could then vote for them if we felt like it.

Now, Lurker is correct, the movie reviews idea has been floated before.  Much in the same vein the sturdy Calvin, he of the Vox Celtica, suggested concentrating reviews of appropriate books at Amazon .  We will fully support such suggestions.  I think that in response to the first time the movie reviews idea was floated I said something like, “OK, we will willingly open a page on that, linkable from the left column.  But we’ll need someone to step forward and take on responsibility for editing and generally nourishing it.”

Thereafter, silence.  But these things don’t just happen.  If you read this and think, “Hey, that would be great” and if you can write as well as or better than the average IMDb reviewer please consider whether you have the time and energy to make it work.  We will provide the platform and welcome you, cost-free, among our number.  If you can’t commit to running the thing but would relish reviewing the movies, then that again would be a fine and, obviously, necessary way to help. 

The Contact button is right there under the header bar.

In closing, the radio facility has been a bigger build than anticipated.  We are in the “any day” phase.  There are interviewees lined up, of whom the least interesting and talented will certainly be the first.

My most recent post at Slashdot:

Readers of slashdot, typically “nerdy” males, are the ones most directly targeted by the government’s unofficial policy of tolerating racist gang rape of the least “street smart” or gang affiliated in its prison system.  This functions to keep the most dangerous element of the population, technologists, in a state of perpetual terror of the government’s wrath, not unlike the terror experienced by the denizens of George Orwell’s “1984” who live under the subtle but continual threat of their worst fears in the Inner Party’s “Room 101 [wikipedia.org]”.

When pressure came from Human Rights Watch [hrw.org] the US government’s response was to pass a “Prisoner rape elimination act” the chief result of which was to commission a study by one Mark Fleisher, who concludes that, get this [spr.org]:

sexual pressure ushers, guides or shepherds the process of sexual awakening.

So the way your government retreats from its threat of having some ethnic gang make you its bitch and infect you with Hepatitis C if not AIDS while sexually torturing you because you’re a technologist who got out of line, is to claim that you aren’t being raped, you are experiencing “sexual awakening”.

This should have topped the list and of course, since American technologists don’t count (just look at the H-1b and outsourcing riots trashing their ability to support families) it didn’t appear anywhere

I consider this infinitely more important than what Steve Sailer promoted as “what’s missing from this Slate Top 10 list”.:  The malign prosecution of the Duke University Lacrosse team for being white while male and heterosexual.

My previous post on a bit of Falluja ground truth now has a follow-up.  I was able to speak to the father of the US soldier who is in harm’s way and it was not pleasant seeing an otherwise very strong 50-something man virtually break down before me.  He is resigning himself to the loss of his son and it is visibly aging him (we have been acquainted for a few years now).  He going through slow torture accepting the loss of his still living son due to the fact that the powers that be cannot withdraw from Iraq without precipitating chaos and the fact that they cannot accept chaos as the outcome.  He told me one of the main purposes of his son’s presence is to keep watch on the Iraqi soldiers because they are so corrupt they cannot be trusted to keep insurgents from buying their way through blockades—and the insurgents have no shortage of money.  The “Iraqi people” are de facto a “nation” of mercenaries bringing home the bacon (well maybe not bacon) to their primary local loyalties—not the kind of force upon which you can build a nation.

How long before men like this decide, with their sons who may have been forced by economic circumstances to join the military, it is time to pull the plug on the government before they lose more of their sons down that hell hole of a war?

It is the chief myth of our age that the legitimacy of government is derived by Lockean consent.  Consent is the founding principle of democracy and everyone knows how sacred, beautious and alround super-desirable democracy is.

Well, we do, don’t we?  That’s what we are told, anyway.  But it doesn’t matter.  It really doesn’t matter what we think because all the noise about consent is a screamingly obvious sham.  The interests of the ruling elite simply do not lie in its own submission to popular consent.  They lie in securing and ever-strengthening its hold on power, infuence and wealth.  The elite will, therefore, seek by any and all means the submission of the people to that end.  It will manufacture consent long before it will relinquish what it loves.  And where consent cannot be manufactured it will resort to more coercive means, only the most benign of which is to spin popular opinion into its opposite (“We are more tolerant oblique open to change oblique eat more chicken tikka marsala than ever”) and blithely go about its business.

In this essay I will explore the roots of the modern managerial power elite, that loose association of political, cultural and corporate players who, though constantly changing, are nonetheless changeless and number globally perhaps no more than a few tens of thousands.  It is an alliance of interests and natures and origins.  In its generality it is not a conspiracy, although at the highest, most Bilderbergian levels all the characteristics of conspiracy - exclusivity, secrecy, conversation and decision - do indeed apply.  Even there, though, I wonder whether most of the 130 or so little big men who get to be ushered past “Security” really are the stuff of global dictatorship.  We do well to remember that the elite is not wholly of one mind and arose, indeed evolved over a lengthy period from a multiplicity of directions and through several agencies.  In all important respects that evolution was more organic than conspiratorial and more accidental than organic.

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I may or may not make this a regular feature depending on how my editorial team of crack news wranglers does.  So far they’ve done a very good job of rounding up news items for me pertaining to frontierist values—including the value of preserving frontierist peoples from extinction—something other frontierists—especially Europeans—seem to pretend is not a problem for the very planet, not to mention the human species.

The theme of these news items is two-fold: 1) Since the iceages, Euroman was selected as a frontier subspecies to the point he has demonstrated his exceptional potential to bring life to the stars, 2) Euroman, hence the entire family of life, is in danger of extinction because alien influnces have taken over his societies, inhibiting his natural—genetically endowed—expression of his frontierism, turning his powers inward toward the destruction of himself and the planet.

PS:  Thanks to Soren for applying the term “frontierist” to my views.  Its not bad as terms applied to me go.

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Because this will cost you money.  $19.95 a year, in fact.  But for that you get full access to the entire and most wide-ranging serious music back-catalogue in the world.  And to me that’s as near to a gift as one can get.

Naxos decided to open its doors in this way to the internet listener in 2003.  I don’t think it has precipitated the other giants to follow suit - no doubt because they cannot make money doing it.  But then they can’t make money at all.  The music industry in general, and not just the serious side, is in growing difficulties, and where it will all end is not yet foreseeable. 

But the corpus of Western music will stand as long as Western Man survives. And, certainly, the quality of music-making is as strong as ever.  There’s enough of it to explore at Naxos to last at least the year of the life of the subscription.

The catalogue includes a very nearly full representation of late romantic nationalist composition, which is the subject of this post.

There was a golden period for nationalistic composers lasting arguably from the operatic exploits of Michael Glinka (1804-1857) until deep into the 20th century.  It was made possible in no small measure because the compositional dependency on the patronage of great churchmen and petty princes was withering.  Artistically, however, the Age of Enlightenment did not provide sufficient answers.  The roots of the nation and its meaning for its people were not matters of interest to the old or new elites of Europe.  But the people themselves were another matter.  With the obvious exception of France, most of the European nations produced men desirous of expressing the soul of their homelands in sound.

In the music world descriptions of nationalist music tend, as one might expect, to be a trifle circumspect.  Much emphasis tends to be placed upon the composer’s conceivably non-political search for the national soul in ancient folk tales, traditions and songs.  It was a natural enough place to look, of course.  The question remains, however, as to how nationalism then fits with nationalism now.  My answer is that that special reverence which informed the best nationalist composition, and which was answered by all those who loved it so long ago, still obtains among listeners today.  Nothing has changed, beyond the fact that the race issue has been thrust upon us where once such a pass would have been unimaginable.  Reaching down into the lives of our ancestors and finding there a reflection of our collective selves is no less proper now than before, and probable more necessary than ever.  Marxism, anyway, makes crap art.

The following list, should you wish to explore the Naxos option, might be worth your time.  It is not complete by any means There is no song, for example.  I have not included Glinka’s successors in Mother Russia: that loose association of like-minded composers who came to be called The Mighty Handful.  Likewise Norway’s most famous composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) and the great Czecks Leoš Janá?ek and (1854-1928)) Antonín Leopold Dvo?ák (1841-1904) have been left off.  I would have liked to reference the Slovak, Vitezlav Novák (1870-1949). But his Moravian & Slovak Suite is not catalogued by Naxos.  The lesser known Scot, Alexander Mackenzie (1847-1935), is also not catalogued but deserves a mention here.  Anyway, here’s my list, much of it rather obvious I know ... but not all.  Some you may care to challenge.  That and any other ommissions will be most carefully studied by me in the thread.

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From the BBC:-

A Christian couple from Lancashire have been awarded £10,000 in an out-of-court settlement after they were questioned by police about their moral beliefs.
Helen and Joe Roberts, from Fleetwood, complained about taxpayers’ money being used for leaflets about gay rights and called homosexuality “immoral”.

Wyre Borough Council informed Lancashire Constabulary. Officers then quizzed the couple for over an hour.

The council and police said they had now apologised to the Roberts.

They also said policies had been revised to protect all parties.

I rather doubt that “all parties” claim.  “All parties” can only be treated equally if the decisions in specific cases are free of minority nepotism.  I just don’t believe that minorities who retain their ethnocentic (or faith-centric) worldviews can be as fair and self-abnegating as, regrettably, we are.  Like all councils Wyre (PDF) has its Equality Action Plan.  But how, exactly, could it implement a race-blind policy of council employment?  Does not equality imply merit under Britain’s current laws?  How is that possible if a nepotistic Pakistani happens to be taking the hiring decisions?  Genuine equality would require a certain standard in how races view themselves and eachother, and of course it does not exist.  Nor can it.

The same is true of any Marxistically-embattled minority viz-a-vis the majority.

Still, it’s good to see the Council and Lancashire Police forced into humility this time.  One must hope that a few egalitarian wings have been clipped.

The other cause for some Christmas cheer is this story from The Times:-

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