Some highlights for this week:  The Holocaust Industry gets $115 billion incentive… China surpasses Japan as creditor… China’s antisatellite weapon test successful… US citizens need passport for borders with Canada and Mexico… Altruism center of the brain… New drilling technology may make geothermal energy competitive with nuclear… US attacks international freedom of speech via UN… Moribund H-1b visa hirers start slow recovery… Gated communities and county devolution… Largest housing sales decline in 24 years… WSJ starts supporting prizes as risk management technique… Get Carter… Baby grabbing to meet bureaucratic adoption targets…

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There has been a lot of Establishment hand-ringing of late over the waning sense of Britishness among the natives of these islands.  Specifically, the hand-wringing is about the uncomfortable likelihood that by being true to themselves the natives will leave the Third World of Bradford, Leicester, Peckham and Hounslow high and dry, together with their newly minted British identities.  The future of the great coerced experiment of the Multicult in England, particularly, is riding on whether the pols can keep us from understanding our own distinctiveness.  They, however, can only approach the issue in one way, which is also the wrong way ... as a crisis of that fungible commodity, “identity”:-

White children living in mixed-race communities feel as marginalised and uncertain of their British identity as ethnic minorities, a controversial government report has found.

A review of citizenship lessons in schools by Sir Keith Ajegbo, a Home Office adviser, concludes that white children are suffering “labelling and discrimination” that is severely compromising their idea of being British.

His review will suggest that while most people assume issues about diversity or “cultural and community cohesion” centred on the black or Asian communities, just as much thought and resources need to be put into providing diversity education to white pupils.

To demonstrate that his sudden concern for English children is indeed motivated by something other than compassion, the half-caste Mr Ajegbo informs us:-

“It makes no sense in our report to focus on minority ethnic pupils without trying to address and understand the issues for white pupils.  It is these white pupils whose attitudes are overwhelmingly important in creating community cohesion.  Nor is there any advantage in creating confidence in minority ethnic pupils if it leaves white pupils feeling disenfranchised and resentful.”

But why would they not feel “disenfranched and resentful”?  Has it not occurred to Mr Ajegbo that, cast as sinners, they are actually the sinned against?  As immigration’s victims they have nothing to gain from “creating community cohesion”.  The only thing that is worse than a multiculturalism that doesn’t work is, as they say, one that does.

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One of my favorite moments in cinema history is during John Carpenter’s suppressed movie “They Live” when the protagonist puts on the “Hoffman lens” he found, allowing him to see which of the populus are aliens.

As he starts realizing there are aliens walking among us, an ugly short woman dressed in fine furs and jewels scowls into a watch radio: “I’ve got one that can SEE!” before pushing a button and disappearing in a flash.

It’s one of my favorite moments in modern myth because it is so frequently applicable.  For example, let’s take Jimmy Carter’s recent defense of Palestinians.  This has resulted in suspicions that he can SEE and a full investigation of any history of behavior on Carter’s part that may support the theory he was harboring a working pair of eyes while pretending to be a legitimate head of state:

“When you tie this in with what he says about the Jewish lobby, it just exposes where his heart really lies.”...“He’s an extremely vain and an extremely stubborn man,” Mr. Sher said. “He has hostility not only toward Israel, but toward American Jews and the pro-Israel community. The venom is starting to come out. Jimmy Carter once told us that he has lust in his heart. We all have to wonder what else is lurking in there?”

Extreme drug resistant TB or XDR-TB is forcing South Africa to do more than make up propaganda portraying white male heterosexuals as perpetrators of the crimes committed by black males there.  Unlike containing the AIDS epidemic, which is as impossible as containing the sexual urges of the black male population of Africa, the carriers of XDR-TB are being “forceably detained” in quarantine.  And, right on cue, this is creating an outcry about “human rights violations” among the vectorists who are not only morally outraged by anything that might impede the spread of the most virulent genetic systems in existence at any point in time, but who have the “moral high ground” among the world’s would-be “elites” who are, themselves, infectious diseases of sorts.

The beauty is that no one, not even the world’s worst hypocritical Davos Man, is safe from this epidemic since the government requires you to accept into your physical environment people from around the world, lest you be accused of the moral equivalent of child molestation:  racist, nativist, xenophobic, prejudiced bigotry at “the Other” due to your paranoid small minded crypto-fascist, etc. blah de woof woof.  In other words, the elites in their walled compounds might be somewhat protected from this for a while, but if they so much as go to the opera to be seen by other “elites” they’ll be taking their lives into their hands.

A half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary was aired this evening with the title, “The Woman Who Never Was?”.  The article about it on the BBC’s website sets the scene:

Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘rivers of blood’ speech at a Conservative Party meeting in Birmingham in 1968 marked both the end of his chances of holding ministerial office and the birth of an enduring mystery.

In that speech he quoted a letter which referred to the plight of an unnamed woman pensioner in his Wolverhampton constituency whose life had, he claimed, been ruined by immigration.

This, according to Powell, was her story: “She worked hard and did well, paid off her mortgage and began to put something by for her old age. Then the immigrants moved in. With growing fear, she saw one house after another taken over.”

“She is becoming afraid to go out, windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letterbox. When she goes out to the shops she is followed by children, charming wide-grinning piccaninnies.”

‘Media circus’

The next day, Tory leader Edward Heath sacked Powell from his shadow cabinet as the debate over his speech and arguments over immigration reached boiling point.

The country demanded to know who this woman was but Powell repeatedly refused to say.

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I am very pleased to post the third of the essays PF has sent to me, venturing this time upon global and third world politics, and Iraq.  PF will now join the MR writers panel and post without further need of my engagement.  On behalf of everyone, then, I welcome a “potentially” valuable and unquestionably interesting and informative new member of the team.
GW

It certainly was an interesting facet of 20th century politics that both CIA and Communist intelligence agents were most interested in peddling/enforcing their universalist ideologies in oil-rich and resource-rich regions (Bolivia, Chile, Iran, Kosovo).

Its an open question whether the CIA and Russian intelligence were motivated by “Freedom” and “Socialism” respectively, or by the potential for large-scale resource acquisition.

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Some highlights for this week: LA ethnic gang violence spreads to formerly safe suburbs… Immigrant cooks spreading brain parasites to patrons of ethnic restaurants… 14 members of Carter’s advisory board resign over Carter’s book on Israel-Palestinian conflict… The most effective sabotage appears accidental… Passports… House construction by robot… Most women now live without husband… Condo market falling…  Another Neanderthal-Modern human hybrid found… Investment bank issues warning on Iran… Methane rocket engine test successful… “the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time”—Iran’s President… 500 gallons of fresh water per day—from thin air… Blair calls majority of Scots and English “crazy” for wanting devolution… Potential cancer cure—cheap—no patent… Harem forming behavior among women… Charles Murray on preventing the foolishness of the intellectual elite… Integrated function heat pump using 50% less energy than standard heat pumps… Jews incarcerated in Israeli jails rather than being raped by blacks and Hispanics in US jails…

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Here is the second of the two essays sent to us by PF: a thought-provoking extrapolation from bacterial population strategy into the modern method of majority population conquest by a minority - GW

Quorum Sensing is a kin-recognition mechanism which bacteria use to implement density-dependent strategies.  Each bacteria that utilizes Quorum Sensing produces a small molecule specific to its species called an Autoinducer.  Each bacteria cell both produces and is sensitive to this chemical.  If many cells of one species are living in a certain area, then there will be a large build-up of autoinducer molecules in that space; if only a few cells are living there, then there will be few autoinducer molecules.  The receptors of each cell are capable of measuring how much autoinducer is present in their environment - and this is how they determine the density of their own species’ cells.  When one bacterial species reaches a certain cell density, and hence its autoinducer reaches a certain concentration, the behavior of the bacterial population changes.

Perhaps the most well-studied examples are in the expression of virulence factors.  These are proteins that help the bacteria to manipulate and evade its host.  Expressing a virulence factor antagonizes the host immune system, and makes it more probable that the bacterial population will come under attack, since host immune systems tend to evolve recognition of virulence factors.  If the bacterial population expresses virulence factors when it is small, it is easily overwhelmed by the immune response.  But if the bacteria population waits until it has sufficient numbers, it can overwhelm the host by switching en masse to the new pathogenic form, with its much greater effect.

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