Cornell University News Service reports that:

A new research program by a Cornell computer scientist, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Utah, aims to teach computers to scan through text and sort opinion from fact. The research is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has designated the consortium of three universities as one of four University Affiliate Centers (UAC) to conduct research on advanced methods for information analysis and to develop computational technologies that contribute to national security. Cornell will receive $850,000 of $2.4 million in funding provided for the consortium over three years…

The new research will use machine-learning algorithms to give computers examples of text expressing both fact and opinion and teach them to tell the difference. A simplified example might be to look for phrases like “according to” or “it is believed.” Ironically, Cardie said, one of the phrases most likely to indicate opinion is “It is a fact that ...”

Recall that words associated with emphatic factual assertion are used to discriminate between “racist” and “anti-racist” text by the EU-funded anti-majority artificial intelligence watchdogs.  In their research the appearance of such words would tend to indicate that the work was “racist” where “racist” was defined by similarity to the writings of selected “racist” authors.  So does this mean Homeland Security’s “fact vs opinion” discriminators will classify “racist” writings as “opinion” and “anti-racist” writings as “fact”?  Well, perhaps, but what is more important is why this “ironic” correlation exists. 

We can test this assertion about the phrase “It is a fact that ...” by running a simple google search on that phrase.  What we find is that there are two very different ways in which “It is a fact that…” can be used:  1) To assert the primary point of the writing.  2) To support the primary point of the writing.  Using “It is a fact that…” as part of an opinion piece means the author isn’t necessarily asserting his primary proposition but is rather asserting supporting arguments which he believes are verifiable facts.  The latter makes sense and, particularly when expressing opinions violating sensibilities of the likely audience, requires the emphatic use of verifiable facts.  On the other hand, when one is reinforcing the sensibilities of the target audience, the primary proposition of the opinion piece is frequently asserted as fact which the audience is likely to accept without objection precisely because it is the common sensibility of the audience.

I don’t know whether this idea will fly but ...

I am interested in building up a list of corrective word and phrase definitions, each of which encapsulates our worldview and might have some utility in combatting the pervasiveness of left-speak.  For example:-

amnesty  a public admission by the US federal government that its immigration laws do not work, and a private admission that they are not meant to
anarcho-capitalism  religion of the capitalist self, attractive to 40 year-old businessmen trying to be hip
anti-discrimination law  destruction of European peoples’ freedoms of association
anti-racism  fanatical hatred of normal Europeans
anti-semite  any European who resists behaviour by Ashkenazic Jews damaging to his people
Ashkenazic Jews  non-semitic tribe of Central Asian origin who comprise 90% of Jewry
assimilation  once proof that any European could find his or her own place in America; assimilationism  the ideology that assimilation is just as possible for non-Europeans
Auschwitz  one-time labour camp, now a temple of perpetual European damnation
Boer genocide  wave of farm murders since the ANC came to power in SA
Canadian anglophones  francophiles
Canadian francophones  anglophobes
civil rights  government-decreed access for blacks to white society, with no corresponding demand for improvements to black behaviour; African-American civil rights movement Anti-white, pro-black agitation of the 50’s and 60’s organised by Jewish political activists until the Black Power Movement could take over
color-blind  blind
conservatism  the political expression of love of self, love of kind, love of country; Conservative Party  right-liberal political group in Britain; social conservatism  understanding of and profound respect for sociobiologically-derived mores and traditions
cognitive dissonance  an anxiety condition common among liberals who encounter, for example, race-realism
cognitive eltism  the idea that Europeans should be displaced and/or replaced by the world’s smartest non-whites because the world’s dummies are a downright disaster
conspiracy theory  smear term for almost any mention of the elephant in the living room
correlation vs. causation  (also “correlation is not causation”) ostrich tactic commonly employed by race-deniers when confronted by Occam’s razor or plain common sense
culture war  the use of homosexual and ethnic minority interests to undo, subvert or otherwise destroy personal and societal norms
democracy  an oligarchy in which the ordinary people think they can elect their leaders
distributism  economic system aiming at the diffusion of property among the populace
diversity  political buzzword for the decivilisation of European societies, often applied to specific localities (opp of “hideously white”)
economism  the belief that only economic and financial ends are really important
egalitarianism  the pretence that poofs, dykes and low-IQ folks are equal to or the same as normal Europeans
equal rights  equal outcomes ... and jam for equality professionals; a mandate for authoritarianism and theft by taxation
european  of Europe or the peoples of Europe
far right  smear term frequently applied to any normal European
fascism  political philosophy peculiar to Italy; fascist  smear term frequently applied to any normal European
freedom  not choice, not an unfettered will, not anything open to the moderation of politics.  Something more.
gay rights  sad wrongs done to our freedoms of speech and association; euphemism for Homosexualist Marxism; the buggering of normalcy
genetic determinism  Orwellian attempt to smear hereditarians with fanaticism by those who are themselves fanatical in their environmental determinism
hate  the idea of or desire for self-determination among European peoples; hate crime legal confirmation of the primacy of minority feelings; hate speech language tending to the survival of European peoples; hate speech law  legalistic attempt to eliminate from public discourse all language tending to the survival of European peoples
holocaust gratuitous Jewish-racial hagiography on an industrial scale
homosexual  (incl. lesbian) human tragedy requiring of the sufferer personal self-restraint in return for public tolerance
illiberal  non-liberal; comment, itself “illiberal”, upon the opinions of a normal person
immigrant  alien aggressing against European economic, land and genetic resources
integration  slow European genocide, and the only genuine alternative to multiculturalism (happily, that’s failed multiculturalism, of course) or repatriation
interculturalism  pathetic attempt to replace failed multiculturalism with chapati-baking lessons for the (remaining) white housewives of Leicester
Iraq  mental condition affecting the Bush dynasty
la-la land  that place under the soil where ostriches and liberals stick their heads
liberal  captive of liberalism; liberalism  the politics of decivilising the West
libertarian  childish right-liberal freedom junkie with an IQ of 120; libertarianism  (second-wave) purest form of liberalism, tending to the atomisation of society into competing sovereign wills and disqualifying the ethnic interest-based presumptions on which racial survival depends
limousine liberal  members of the political class who gush regularly for the poor they hope never to meet
melting pot genocide of the dark ally and the bed pillow
Mark Stein widely-published Canadian journalist and dissembling shill for the “war on terror”
Marxism  the still-beating heart of the left, even after 100,000,000 deaths by collectivism and state terror, and the collapse of all social and economic credibility
Mexico  a country shortly to be found south of MT and west of LA
multiculturalism  failed attempt by the liberal establishment to force unassimilable aliens on Europeans through the recognition of only cultural differences
nation  a people and a land - Blut und Boden, the one inseparable from the other; nationalist  person who comprehends the inseparability of blood and soil
nazi (from Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP) smear term frequently applied to normal Europeans; nazi war crimes  war crimes by nazis
neoconservatives  Jewish ex-trotskyites and fellow travellers who stole the GOP from European-Americans, captured the US Presidency, opened the borders as wide as possible and declared war on Israel’s enemies.
one-man-one-vote  (abbr. OMOV) a method of restraining indigenous and socially conservative interests at the ballot box
paternalism  feminist paranoia about the benign father figure
patriot  person who does not necessarily comprehend the inseparability of blood and soil, but loves the soil anyway
political correctness  self-censorship in imitatio Marxo for the comfort and good of blacks, queers, liberal academics, etc
pornography  extreme expression of secular Jewish individualism
precision bombing  whoops!
psyops  cynical manipulation of public feeling and opinion by an hidden enemy within
racialist  normal person who puts the interests of his or her people first; racial majority  European people who, by their mere existence, obstruct progress towards the goals of liberalism; racial minority  client group of any liberal, assumed to be inherently noble and in need of protection from white racism and privilege; racial prejudice  believing non-whites are racially inferior, since believing them equal is apparently not a prejudgement; racial supremacism scare story told by race-deniers to avoid the normality of racialism; perfectly logical result of Nature’s diversity racist  term of abuse for a normal European person; a conservative winning an argument with a liberal (Thomas Sowell)
repatriation  redemption from the folly and self-destructiveness of post-war immigration policy in the West
sixties  decade of moral self-indulgence, of revolt against the father, of flight into fantasy, of conservative collapse
social engineering  proof that Man is not perfectible
social scientist  professional bigot who researches us solely to reinforce his or her anti-white, anti-male or heterophobic prejudices
state  the institutions of power through which the liberal-left has marched
Steve Sailer  American journalist with extremely sound race-realist credentials but a fatal incapacity or unwillingness to follow the political logic
terrorism  blind hatred in pursuit of political self-justification
taboo-breaking  wet dream of all liberals, providing the alleged taboos are the natural foundations of society ... but shock and horror if the taboos are their own
two-party system  one-party system
unfettered will  being anyone and doing anything your silly head wishes; the execrable understanding of human nature which is the holy of liberal holies, for spaced-out jumpers everywhere: “I can fly, baby ...”
war on terror  popular belief among certain European peoples that Apache attack helicopters in Lashkargah will save them from what Moslems do in bed in Brussels and Bradford
white flight  Orwellian term blaming whites for their own ethnic cleansing
white privilege the allegedly academic theory that the poor outcomes of certain minorities are caused not by their own failings but by the skin colour of Europeans
white separatism  precondition for racial survival in a multiracial state, akin to repatriation in the ancient nations of Europe
white supremacism,  see “racial supremacism”

There are, I suppose, hundreds of words that could be so defined.  Bearing in mind that the object of the definition is to be accurate, concise (or, if not, funny), and fully “awake” you are cordially invited to improve on and add to the little list I have crashed out above.  If sufficient defs eventually build up - and we are not in a hurry - we can post them as a running feature linked from our front-page.  (I should just add that I will be sole editor and adjudicator of suitability, should anyone care to contribute).

Did you, perhaps, dream as a youngster of becoming a professional sportsman?  It would only be natural.  Well, I would like you to imagine that the dream came true … at least, if the dream was to be play soccer.  I want you to imagine yourself as a regular team guy in a professional squad - not a star perhaps and not in the top flight.  But you are out there in front of the fans every Saturday afternoon of the season, fighting for another win.

But … wins are becoming harder to come by just lately.  There have been mistakes … mis-hit back passes, poor positioning, a bad penalty-giveaway.  Just dumb stuff, but none of it, as it happens, yours.

Still, points have been lost.  The expected good finish in the table … the possibility of promotion, is slipping away.  Worse, your win bonuses have suffered.  There is pressure on everyone – a lot of it - and especially on the boss.

Then, say, in match preparation at the ground one cold, wet Saturday morning he – let’s call him Stan - sends three of the guys to the gym to do some light weight work.  It doesn’t make sense.  He’s never done that before.

The rest of the players he calls together.

“OK, guys,” Stan says, ”now I want you to listen carefully to me.  Don’t any of you interrupt.  This is important.

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A study funded by the European Union to create artificially intelligent anti-majority watchdogs.  Here is an excerpt:

The main aims of Princip project lie in the detection of racist content on the Internet…

The main body of linguistic work on racist language has concentrated on discourse analysis of majority groups within European countries and the USA with the aim of uncovering tacit or concealed racist attitudes. This has mainly been achieved by means of interviewing members of majority groups and subjecting the resulting text to a discourse analysis (prototypical example: Teun van Dijk, 1987, 19931 with many followers), or by means of studying existing political textual documents (M. Souchard, 1997) in order to detect recursive linguistic units and themes.

The Princip-project differs from previous linguistic research in the type and source of texts that it researches, in the method it uses and in the aims it pursues. The project deals with (mainly) open racist attitudes as expressed on the Internet. There has been research into web-based racist language before but this has generally been limited in its scope: using typical pieces of text from particular websites2. The Princip-project deals with large amounts of text published on the Internet and uses corpus linguistics methods as its primary research tool. The aim of the linguistic studies of the Princip project is to enable an automated multi-agent system to detect racist content without recourse to human input during on-line running.

Since this document may otherwise disappear from the net altogether I’m posting a copy here.

PS: As you read this document you will notice that nowhere do they cop to the fact that they are using the technique of “profiling” to “discriminate” between “racist” and “anti-racist” text.  Guys like “Godless Capitalist” like to point to government funded technology like this as evidence that “the cognitive elite” will crush any attempt by separatist movements to assert their fundamental human right of freedom of association/self-determination.  With such self-deceptive hypocrisy (no, Razib, hypocrisy isn’t simply saying you believe something and then not following it—its preaching something you don’t practice like Godless “Capitalist” does when he uses civil rights, immigration liberalizations and “fair” housing laws to gain access to other’s territory/property) there can be little doubt that “the cognitive elite” has all the intellectual integrity of brie on a hot summer patio table.

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NBC News anchorman got his reward yesterday for comparing the Iranian hostage-takers to the Founders last year and elite American forces to suicide bombers last month: an exclusive interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a Midtown Manhatton hotel.

Here are the interesting exchanges as reported by Williams:-

Brian Williams: How do you think the discussion has been allowed to get that far, that we’re discussing possible war between the U.S. and Iran?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: I think we need to ask this question from American, U.S., politicians. The world has changed. The time for world empires has ended. The U.S. government thinks that it’s still the period after World War II, when they came out as a victor and enjoyed special rights. And can rule, therefore, over the rest of the world. I explicitly say that I am against the policies chosen by the U.S. government to run the world. Because these policies are moving the world towards war.

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Being a European American I’m not very literate about my homelands’ policies or politics but do find the seemingly limitless potential displacement of my ancestral peoples distressing.  Among the key suspects is something called the Schengen Agreement.  I’d like to hear opinions about this agreement for it seems to me it is virtually guaranteed to produce unbridled immigration from all corners of the world into all signatory states.  My reasoning is this:  Since administration of the Schengen Agreement is left up to the states, the effective immigration policy to all of the European States participating in the Agreement is to admit as many immigrants to them as allowed by the signatory state with the most lax border enforcement.  With the proliferation of signatory states it seems inevitable that the degree to which immigrants from around the world are to be admitted to all signatory states is virtually limitless.

22nd April, 2007: 1st round of voting in the French Presidential Election.

22nd May, 2007: 6th May, 2007: 2nd round of voting in French Presidential Election, if required.

6th June, 2007: Trial in Paris on charges of conspiring to justify war crimes and to deny Nazi crimes against humanity.

20th June, 2007: 79th birthday party, possibly even in prison - he faces up to five years and a Euro 45,000 fine.  Unless, of course ...

The news that power corrupts might not surprise too many students of politics.  But electorates tend not to appreciate learning the Actonite truth too suddenly.  There are apt to be colourful consequences.  At least, that was the reaction in Hungary to the news that the elected left-of-centre government, led by blabbermouth Ferenc Gyurcsany, are thieves of power, and Hungarian democracy is a perfect sham.

Hungarian police have used tear gas and water cannon to quell violent overnight protests in Budapest in which buildings were attacked and cars set alight.

The clashes happened following a rally demanding the resignation of PM Ferenc Gyurcsany, after it was revealed his government had lied during an election.

The worst fighting came when protesters stormed the state television building.

Dozens of people were hurt, including many police officers. The city is now said to be calm.

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