Voltaire — To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize
Monday, May 31, 2010
Triumph of the Northern Eurasians
Peter Frost explains why non-Africans have the same amount of Neanderthal admixture, whether they be Europeans, East Asians, or Papua/New Guineans.
Mangan, Derbyshire and MacDonald
Dennis Mangan critiques John Derbyshire's critique of Kevin MacDonald's The Culture of Critique.
Voters in California favor Arizona's new immigration law
Arizona's new law is particularly popular with whites and unpopular with Hispanics in California.
Obama's incompetence, arrogance and laziness
Roger Kimball explains why Obama is doing such an awful job as President of the United States.
Apparently it is against the law to boycott Israel
This is from the Antiboycott Compliance section of the Bureau of Industry and Security website:
Maybe we should have a law that makes it illegal to boycott Arizona?
The Bureau is charged with administering and enforcing the Antiboycott Laws under the Export Administration Act. Those laws discourage, and in some circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from furthering or supporting the boycott of Israel sponsored by the Arab League, and certain Moslem countries, including complying with certain requests for information designed to verify compliance with the boycott. Compliance with such requests may be prohibited by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and may be reportable to the Bureau.
Maybe we should have a law that makes it illegal to boycott Arizona?
Jurors attacked by Hispanic gang member's family
Jurors who had just convicted a Hispanic gang member of murdering a 16-year-old boy were confronted outside the Riverside courthouse by the defendant’s angry relatives, who shouted threats and punched one juror, sheriff’s officials said. Two family members and a friend of the defendant were arrested. Joaquina Munoz and Arely Munoz were arrested on suspicion of accosting jurors who had just convicted Andres Munoz of murder. The jurors had found Andres Muñoz guilty of first-degree murder for the 2006 shooting of Derek Ochoa, 16, in a case involving gang rivalry in Riverside’s La Sierra neighborhood.
A poll shows that 30% of the French agree that Jews have more influence on finance and the media than other groups
The poll also showed that 28% think that Arabs are more likely to commit crimes than members of other ethnic groups, a number that has more than doubled since a similar poll was conducted in 2009. Almost half of respondents, 49%, thought that immigrants are better able to exploit the social welfare system than are the native French, and 12% said homosexuals were more obsessed by sex than others. Meanwhile 28% said they regarded blacks as more physically powerful than other groups.
Hispanic woman arrested after trying to steal a baby and kills its mother
A Latina who lied to her family about giving birth tried to kidnap a newborn baby and kill the child's mother, but was foiled when the mother managed to bite off part of her assailant's finger and alert family members, police said. Gabriela Osorio, 28, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and attempted kidnapping shortly after she fled the victim's house with the baby, said Cpl. Anthony Bertagna, a spokesman for the Santa Ana Police Department. The mother was treated for stab wounds but has been released from the hospital and is at home with her child. Bertagna said the story began in 2009 when Osorio believed she was pregnant and was showered with attention from her boyfriend and family. She later discovered she was not pregnant, but did not tell her loved ones. Instead, she hatched a plot to steal a baby. Police say Osorio told them that she began visiting medical clinics around Santa Ana looking for women who had recently given birth and who matched her physical characteristics. She met and befriended the victim, a 26-year-old Santa Ana woman, at a clinic a week before the attack. Osorio showed up uninvited at the victim's house. She told investigators that she intended to take the baby and flee. After failing to sneak the baby away, Osorio grabbed a plastic bag and tried to suffocate the mother. At some point during the struggle, she also grabbed a knife and stabbed the woman three times. The wounded mother bit off the tip of Osorio's ring finger and ran outside, screaming for help. Osorio then fled the residence with the baby in her arms. Police apprehended Osorio near the house a short time later. Along with attempted murder and attempted kidnapping, Osorio was charged on suspicion of burglary and assault.
Between 20 and 25 bodies, thought to be the victims of drug gang violence, have been found in an abandoned silver mine in southern Mexico
The bodies appeared to have been thrown down a ventilation shaft over a period of time. The mine is near the city of Taxco in Guerrero state, a focal point for drug-related violence that has claimed some 23,000 lives in Mexico since 2006. Police and soldiers have been using breathing equipment as they descend deep underground to recover the bodies. Many of the corpses had their hands and feet tied, Mexican media reported. The mine is located near Taxco, a city popular with tourists. While much of the drug violence has been in northern Mexico, in particular in areas bordering the United States, other regions have not been immune. Guerrero, in the south and with a Pacific coastline, has also seen vicious bouts of bloodshed amid bitter turf wars for control of the trade in illegal drugs.
The failures of Obama
Dan Surber explains how Obama has mishandled four major crises since becoming President of the United States and three of those crises involve Islamic terrorism.
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Dowd: President Present strikes again
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Islam, immigration and so-called homegrown terrorism
James Fulford explains that many of the people identified as "homegrown" terrorists are actually either Muslim immigrants or the children of such immigrants. These terrorists come from places such as Pakistan, Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Jordan. The best way to fight "homegrown" terrorism is to reduce immigration from Islamic countries.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of U.S. voters say military troops should be sent to the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration
A new nationwide telephone survey finds that just 18% are opposed and another 15% are not sure. A majority of Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters all support the concept of using the troops to stop illegal immigration. President Obama recently announced that he is sending troops to the Mexican border, but the stated purpose is to prevent the spread of drug-related violence. The new survey also finds that just 26% of voters believe the U.S. Department of Justice should challenge the legality of Arizona’s new law in federal court. Fifty-six percent (56%) oppose such a challenge, and 18% more are not sure. Earlier polling found that most Americans trust the Arizona state leaders more than leaders in Washington, DC on the topic of immigration. A senior official at the Department of Homeland Security has said that it may not process illegal immigrants sent to them by Arizona authorities. Only 24% of voters support that approach while 55% disagree and believe Homeland Security should process the illegal immigrants arrested under the new law. One-in-five voters (20%) aren't sure which course is best. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters now favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own states. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters believe a police officer should be required to check the immigration status of anyone stopped for a traffic violation or violation of some other law if he suspects the person might be an illegal immigrant. Boston and Los Angeles were among the first to announce boycotts of Arizona, but 68% of Americans say it’s a bad idea for other cities or states to boycott Arizona over its new immigration law. Voters across the nation are extremely skeptical about the federal government’s role in the immigration debate. Three-out-of-four voters believe that the federal government is not doing enough to secure the nation’s borders. In fact, 56% believe that the policies of the federal government encourage illegal immigration. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of voters say illegal immigrants are a significant strain on the U.S. budget. Most voters continue to say as they have for years that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of illegal immigrants.
Open defecation in India
It is believed that Indians leave an estimated 100,000 tons of human excrement each day in fields of potatoes, carrots and spinach, on banks that line rivers used for drinking and bathing and along roads jammed with scooters, trucks and pedestrians. In the shadow of its new suburbs, torrid growth and 300-million-plus-strong middle class, India is struggling with a sanitation emergency. In India, 75% of the country’s surface water is contaminated by human and agricultural waste and industrial effluent. Everyone in Indian cities is at risk of consuming human feces, if they’re not already, the Ministry of Urban Development has concluded. Illness, lost productivity and other consequences of fouled water and inadequate sewage treatment trimmed 1.4% - 7.2% from the gross domestic product of Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam in 2005, according to a study by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program. Snarled transportation and unreliable power further damp the nation’s growth. Companies that locate in India pay hardship wages and ensconce employees in self-sufficient compounds. The toll on human health is grim. Every day, 1,000 children younger than 5 years old die in India from diarrhea, hepatitis-causing pathogens and other sanitation-related diseases, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund. India has the greatest proportion of people in Asia behind Nepal without access to improved sanitation, according to Unicef. Some 665 million Indians practice open defecation, more than half the global total. In China, the world’s most populous country, 37 million people defecate in the open, according to Unicef. India has the highest childhood malnutrition rates in the world: 44% of children younger than 5 are underweight, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute. Half of India’s schools don’t have separate toilets for males and females, forcing young women to use unisex facilities or nothing at all. Twenty-two percent of girls complete 10 or more years of schooling compared with 35% of boys, a national family health survey finished in 2006 found.
Tories allow a misogynist Muslim preacher into Britain
Zakir Naik, an Indian televangelist described as a hate-monger by many, says western women make themselves more susceptible to rape by wearing revealing clothing. Naik, who proselytises on Peace TV, a satellite television channel, is reported to have called for the execution of Muslims who change their faith, described Americans as pigs and said that every Muslim should be a terrorist. In a recent lecture, he said he was with Osama Bin Laden over the attacks on the United States, adding that the 9/11 hijackings were an inside job by President George W Bush.
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Senior member of extreme Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir teaches at LSE
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Senior member of extreme Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir teaches at LSE
Barack Obama's credibility hits rock bottom after oil spill and Sestak scandal
Toby Harnden argues that the combination of Obama's passivity over the Gulf oil spill catastrophe and his cynical political manoeuvrings could spell disaster for him.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Korean couple sent to jail over child's death
A Korean couple whose baby starved to death while they raised a virtual child in an online fantasy game has been sentenced. Prosecutors at Suwon District Court had sought a five-year sentence for negligent homicide, but the court handed out a two-year sentence. Sentence was suspended for the female defendant, Kim Yun-jeong, 25, who is expecting the couple's daughter in August 2010. Her partner, Kim Jae-beom, 41, will serve two years. Three-month-old Kim Sa-rang died of malnutrition in September while her parents were engaged in 12-hour sessions of Prius Online. In the 3-D fantasy game, players nurture an online girl who gains magical powers as she grows. During their trial, the court heard that the toddler weighed 6.4 pounds when she was born, but was only 5.5 pounds at the time of her death.
Peter Beinart, Israel and Jewish ethnocentrism
Kevin MacDonald argues that Jews support liberal policies in the United States because it serves their ethnocentric desire to undermine white gentiles.
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Belated thoughts on Peter Beinart
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Skin color and empathy
Scientists have found that people have more empathy for someone in pain if they happen to be of the same skin color. Whites react more to the pain of whites than of blacks, and blacks react more to the pain of blacks than of whites. People who show a strong preference for individuals of their own skin color tend to show the least empathy for those of other skin colors.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Leader in Montreal Jewish community pleads guilty to child porn charges
The former Quebec director of B'nai Brith has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. Bill Surkis pleaded guilty to one count of accessing and one count of possessing child pornography when he appeared in a Montreal courtroom. The former director of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center turned himself in to police in 2009 after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Defense lawyer Steven Slimovitch said at the time that police phoned Surkis after he brought his computer to a store to have it scanned for viruses. A shop employee allegedly discovered 23 videos on the hard drive and alerted police.
Over 70 people have died as Jamaican security forces battled armed supporters of a drug lord wanted for extradition to the United States
The violence started as drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke's supporters torched police stations to protest his potential extradition to the United States. He was indicted in 2009 in New York on drug trafficking and gunrunning charges. Prime Minister Bruce Golding declared a state of emergency, giving security forces broad powers to restrict freedom of movement, search premises and detain suspects without warrants.
A Chinese man chained his eight-year-old son to a lamppost and tried to auction him to strangers
Yong Tsui offered the terrified child as a slave because he wanted him off his hands. He put up a table with a sign on it, giving the youngster's name and age and boasting of his capacity for hard work. But when bidders began to ask how much the boy ate, angry bystanders attacked the father. Police now have the child in care in Wuhan, central China.
Why does anti-Semitism exist?
Here is Ferdinand Bardamu's explanation:
The reason anti-Semitism exists can be explained with a simple quote I have used twice in the past two weeks: “proximity + diversity = war.” Like I explained on Tuesday, human beings are tribal, and multiple tribes in the same space will always be at each others’ throats. The beauty of Roissy’s equation is that it can be applied to any ethnic tension in any country on Earth, whether its the Quebecois in Canada, Chinese in Malaysia, or the Kurds in Turkey. No kooky tinfoil hat theories, no fudging facts, no insanity. Essentially, so long as the Jews remain visible minorities in gentile societies, anti-Semitism will persist. It will fluctuate in intensity, but it will never go away. If the anti-anti-Semites really wanted to accomplish their goal, they’d launch a campaign to get every Jew outside of the Holy Land to make aliyah, combined with a political push to get the U.S. government out of Israeli affairs.
Jewish former District Attorney has the task of destroying the fire department of New York City
Robert Morgenthau will be in charge of dealing with the "discrimination" experienced by blacks who were not smart enough to pass the tests to become firefighters. New Yorkers can now sleep peacefully knowing that - thanks to Morgenthau and other anti-white Jews - blacks with low IQ's will be able to become firefighters in place of more intelligent whites.
An important website if you care about your health
Barbara Dunn has created an important website dealing with the issue of infections acquired while in hospitals and other health care facilities. In fact, at any point in time, over a million people suffer from infections that they have acquired in hospitals. If you or anyone you care about need to use such facilities then check out her site:
Healthcare-Associated Infection: Not on My Watch
Healthcare-Associated Infection: Not on My Watch
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Black mayor will be going to prison
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been sentenced to a maximum of five years behind bars for violating probation. Wayne County, Michigan, Judge David Groner issued the order after Kilpatrick was found guilty in April 2010 of violating his probation by failing to report assets that could be used to pay restitution. He said Kilpatrick must serve a minimum of a year and a half, minus 120 days credit for time served. Kilpatrick pleaded guilty in September 2008 to two felony counts of obstruction of justice stemming from his efforts to cover up an extramarital affair. He also pleaded no contest to charges of assaulting a police officer attempting to serve a subpoena on a Kilpatrick friend in that case. He was accused of blocking a criminal investigation into his office and firing a police deputy to cover up the affair.
The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among Hispanics and Asians born in the United States
The number of interracial marriages in the United States has risen 20% since 2000 to about 4.5 million, according to the latest census figures. While still growing, that number is a marked drop-off from the 65% increase between 1990 and 2000. About 8% of U.S. marriages are mixed-race, up from 7% in 2000. The latest trend belies notions of the United States as a post-racial, assimilated society. Demographers cite a steady flow of recent immigration that has given Hispanics and Asians more ethnically similar partners to choose from while creating some social distance from whites due to cultural and language differences. White wariness toward a rapidly growing minority population in the United States also may be contributing to racial divisions. Broken down by race, about 40% of Asians born in the United States now marry whites — a figure unchanged since 1980. Their likelihood of marrying foreign-born Asians, meanwhile, multiplied 3 times for men and 5 times for women, to roughly 20%. Among Hispanics born in the United States, marriages with whites increased modestly from roughly 30% to 38% over the past three decades. But when it came to marriages with foreign-born Hispanics, the share doubled to 12.5% for men, and 17.1% for women. In contrast, blacks are now three times as likely to marry whites than in 1980 with about 14.4% of black men and 6.5% of black women currently in such mixed marriages. Among whites born in the United States, about 0.3% married blacks in 1980; that figure rose to about 1% in 2008. About 0.3% of whites married Asians in 1980 and about 1% in 2008. About 2% of whites married Hispanics in 1980, rising to about 3.6% in 2008.
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Interracial Marriage: 2008 stats
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Interracial Marriage: 2008 stats
70% of whites support Arizona's immigration law, versus just 31% of Latinos
While 68% of Latinos believe that immigration strengthens the United States, just 43% of whites think that. In addition, only 38% of whites approve of Obama’s job as president, versus 68% of Latinos and although only 34% of whites hold a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, 54% of Latinos view the party in a positive light.
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Activists blast Mexico's immigration law
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Women who are open and trusting become more shrewd and less trusting when given testosterone
A study asked adult women to rate the trustworthiness of photos of strangers' faces. The hormone testosterone, normally linked to competition and dominance, made the most socially naive women more vigilant. But it had no effect on women naturally less trusting. Trust plays an important role in the formation and maintenance of human social relationships. Previous research has shown that the peptide hormone oxytocin increases trust in humans. Testosterone reduced interpersonal trust but only in subjects who were generally trusting, and therefore more at risk for deceit. Whereas in some mammals, testosterone is confined to motivating aggression in competition for status and resources, in humans the hormone seems to motivate for rational decision-making, social scrutiny, and cleverness, the apparent tools for success in a modern society. These findings are broadly consistent with previous research which showed that testosterone injections in men influenced aspects of their spatial and verbal abilities. There is growing evidence to suggest that testosterone has activational as well as organizational effects in men and women. It is possible that testosterone can activate changes in the way people perceive and think about aspects of the world.
Stalinist spies and the Democrats
Pat Buchanan provides some historical facts that the Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media would like to forget:
The FDR and Truman administrations were shot through with treason. Alger Hiss, who was with FDR at Yalta and Truman in San Francisco when the U.N. was founded, was a Stalinist spy, exposed by Whittaker Chambers and Rep. Richard Nixon.
Harry Dexter White, Treasury's No. 2, who pushed the infamous Morgenthau Plan to turn Germany into a pastureland, was a Soviet agent, as was White House aide Laughlin Currie and State's Laurence Duggan, whose treason was confirmed by the VENONA decrypts of Soviet cables in 1995.
William Remington at Commerce was convicted of perjury for denying his ties to a spy ring. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for their role in betraying the secrets of the atom bomb.
The VENONA transcripts contained the names of scores of U.S. citizens assisting known Soviet agents during and after World War II.
By 1952, Truman, having been repudiated by his own party in New Hampshire, was down to 23 percent, and was the most unpopular president ever to leave office.
But Joe McCarthy's approval, four years into this crusade in January 1954, stood at 50 percent, with only 29 percent disapproving.
And was that really a time of anti-communist hysteria?
Why, then, does not a single Gallup poll from 1950 to 1954 show even 1 percent of Americans giving anti-communist extremism or witch hunts or Joe McCarthy as an issue of concern?
Not only did Joe Kennedy Sr. admire and support Joe McCarthy, Jack Kennedy befriended him, Bobby worked for him, Teddy played touch football with him at Hyannis Port and the Kennedy girls dated him.
When, at a Harvard reunion, Jack heard a speaker say he was proud the college never produced an Alger Hiss or Joe McCarthy, JFK roared, "How dare you couple the name of a great patriot with that of a traitor?" and stormed out.
Affirmative action in the 21st century
Steve Sailer shows how unworkable and harmful so-called anti-discrimination laws have become. Affirmative action often results in better-qualified whites being discriminated against in favor of less qualified blacks.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - 5/24/10
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18. Just 49% of Democrats Strongly Approve of Obama’s performance. That’s down from a high of 65%. Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. Fifty-four percent (55%) disapprove.
Foreign fans don't want to go to South Africa for World Cup
The World Cup is set to be a major financial disappointment for the host nation South Africa, after it became clear that international fans have decided to stay away and their tickets are being sold cheaply to South Africans. Organizers have revised visitor estimates – and thus tourism income – down from an initial 750,000 to 200,000. Airlines, hotels and guesthouses are slashing their prices. On 15 April, 2010 hundreds of thousands of cut-price match tickets went on sale in South Africa, in a bid to fill 3.2 million seats at 64 matches. At the taxpayers' expense, municipalities and state-owned companies such as Telkom have bought thousands of tickets to give away to employees or offer as prizes.
Support for the REPEAL of the new national health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever
A new national telephone survey finds that 63% of U.S. voters now favor repeal of the plan passed by congressional Democrats and signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. Previously, weekly polling had shown support for repeal ranging from 54% to 58%. Currently, just 32% oppose repeal.
Australia expels Israeli official
Australia said it would expel an official from the Israeli embassy after finding the Jewish state was behind fake Australian passports linked to the killing of a Hamas operative.
Fighting off rivals may be responsible for masculine traits
Almost all of the traits considered to be masculine such as big muscles, facial hair, square jaws, deep voices and a propensity to violence seem to have evolved specifically for their usefulness in fighting off or intimidating other men, allowing the winner to get the girl. On average, men have 40% more fat-free mass than women, which is similar to the difference in gorillas, a species in which males unquestionably compete with other males for exclusive sexual access to females. In species whose males do not fight for access to females, males are generally the same size as, or smaller than, females.
Kenyan sentenced for eating part of a man's ear
Susan Mwarabu was sentenced in Ramsey County District Court for biting off and swallowing part of a man's ear. Mwarabu, who lost her teaching job at Northfield Middle School after she was charged in the incident. It happened at the Uptowner Cafe in St. Paul. Mwarabu lost her teaching job at Northfield Middle School after she was charged in the incident. It happened at the Uptowner Cafe in St. Paul. Mwarabu, 31, did not know her victim, Christopher Hough, 33, before the incident. Mwarabu's attorneys requested that she be able to visit her ill mother in Kenya before she reports to the workhouse to complete her sentence.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Black female MP describes David Cameron and Nick Clegg as two posh white boys
Black Labour leadership candidate Diane Abbott is at the center of a race row after describing David Cameron and Nick Clegg as two posh white boys. Abbott, the first black woman MP, has previously faced accusations of racism after suggesting that the blond blue-eyed Finnish girls working in her local hospital were unsuitable as nurses because they had never met a black person before. Abbott has positioned herself as an anti-racism campaigner and once claimed that Britain had invented racism.
The Dalai Lama is a Marxist
Apparently, he finds Marxism to be morally superior even though Communist China is oppressing his native Tibet.
Archaeologists unearth a 7,000-year-old swastika in north-western Bulgaria
The swastika-decorated clay pottery fragment was found by archaeologists during excavations of a ritual pit around the village of Altimir near the town of Vratsa. The find dates back to the beginning of the Stone-Copper Age and shows that this symbol traverses the centuries and cannot be linked solely to Hitler’s party, archaeologists explained. The swastika as a symbol dates to the Neolithic period in Ancient India, according to previous archaeological finds. It can also be seen on Roman and Medieval artifacts. It was commonly used over much of the world and still occurs widely in religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.
The euro and the European Union
Angela Merkel says that if the euro collapses, so will the idea of European unity.
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Men have double the risk of catching HIV if their partner is pregnant
A study of more than 3,000 couples in Africa also backed previous research showing women are more susceptible to HIV infection when they are pregnant. The researchers speculate that changes in a pregnant woman's immune system may contribute to the increased chance of her partner becoming infected. Young women of reproductive age are among those at greatest risk of HIV infection in countries with high levels of disease. The study was carried out in Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Is lying proof of intelligence in young children?
A quick-thinking 2-year-old who masters the art of fibbing actually has a fast-developing brain and will probably be successful in adulthood. In fact, the more believable the tall tale, the more quick-witted the child will be down the line – and the better equipped to meet life's challenges. Lying, which requires the brain to manipulate information, is associated with brain regions that permit higher-order thinking. It's also very common: some 20% of 2-year-olds lie, nearly 50% of 3-year-olds lie, and close to 90% of kids lie at age 4. The most deceitful age of all is 12, when almost every kid tells fibs, and by the age of 16, lying starts to decrease. Just 70% of 16-year-olds lie. Parents should not be alarmed if their child fibs since those who have better cognitive development lie better because they can cover up their tracks.
Alcohol in Africa
Excessive drinking may be one of the reasons why Africa is so poor.
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Has Nicholas Kristof become less liberal?
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
Is the euro dead?
Jeff Randall says that the only way the currency can survive is by getting rid of weaker members such as Greece.
Friday, May 21, 2010
The genetic background of the South African Coloreds of the Western Cape
A genetic analysis shows that the major ancestral components of the Colored population are predominantly Khoesan (32–43%), Bantu-speaking Africans (20–36%), European (21–28%) and a smaller Asian contribution (9–11%).
Ethnic gang crime in Australia
Australian police like to downplay gang crimes committed by Asians and other non-whites.
A black robber who raped and tortured a young couple in their own home has been jailed indefinitely in Britain
Gavin Gordon, 31, a black drug addict who has a string of convictions for violence dating back more than ten years, was part of a gang that raped a 26-year-old woman in her home in Clapham, south London, while her boyfriend screamed as he was tortured in the next room.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The European experiment has failed and is only artificially being kept alive on a life-support system of taxpayer-funded bailouts
Gerald Warner says that the euro is now a zombie currency: only the political will of the European nomenklatura keeps it nominally in existence.
With 24 seats, Jews are vastly over-represented in the British parliament
The Jewish population in Britain is 280,000 or 0.46% of the total British population. There are 650 seats in the House of Commons so, as a proportion, Jewish entitlement is only 3 seats, but with 24 seats they are 8 times over-represented. The Jewish Chronicle has published a list of Jewish MPs in Britain’s parliament – Conservatives 12, Labour 10 and Liberal Democrats 2.
About 13% of the sub-Saharan gene pool comes from an earlier expansion of pre-modern humans that occurred about 111,000 years ago
Modern humans can be split into two groups: a group of pure Afrasians which includes all non-Africans, and a group of Afrasian-Paleoafrican hybrids which includes all non-Caucasoid Africans.
A judge in Malawi has imposed a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison with hard labor on a gay couple convicted of gross indecency and unnatural acts
I just wonder what excuse liberals will use to blame this decision by an African judge in an African country on white people.
Autism link with Africa and Asia
A survey has found an increased risk of autism in children whose parents had migrated to Britain from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. The greatest risk was for the Caribbean group followed by the Africans. The researchers didn't find an increased risk in the parents who had migrated to Britain from other European countries.
Shorter men are between 20% to 30% more likely to end up in prison than their taller counterparts
Biologists believe that 80% of height is determined by genetics which may mean that there is a genetic link to criminal behavior.
Latino rape suspect has been deported four times
The Hispanic accused of raping a woman behind a grocery store has been deported at least four times in the past 15 years. An officer responding to a woman's cry for help found 46-year-old Jose Madrigal on top of the woman and arrested him. According to court documents, the woman told police that Madrigal had followed her and offered her $35 for sex, but she said no. She said Madrigal then forced her into the bushes on the north side of the store and raped her. The 28-year-old rape victim was treated at a hospital. Prosecutors have charged Madrigal in district court with second degree rape. He is also is being held for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Nigeria's police force carries out extrajudicial killings, torture in custody, and sexual assaults against women
The report claims that Nigerian police openly parade suspects for the media, before executing them without trial. The Open Society Justice Initiative's study is the latest of a number of reports to severely criticize Nigeria's police for brutality and corruption. The group observed officers and suspects at 400 different police stations over two years. They say Nigeria's police, in effect, get away with murder. Police in Nigeria commit extrajudicial killings, torture, rape, and extortion with relative impunity. Nigeria Police Force personnel routinely carry out summary executions of persons accused or suspected of crime. The police rely on torture as a principal means of investigation; commit rape of both sexes, with a particular focus on sex workers; and engage in extortion at nearly every opportunity.
Is the break-up of the United States inevitable?
Chuck Baldwin explains why the United States will not survive as a single nation.
The French cabinet has approved a bill making it illegal to wear in public clothes designed to hide the face
The legislation amounts to a ban on the full-face Muslim veil. Women wearing the veil in public could be fined, and men judged to have forced them to do so could be imprisoned. Parliament passed a non-binding resolution condemning the full Islamic face veil as an affront to the nation's values of dignity and equality. A law against conspicuous religious symbols effectively banned headscarves from state primary and secondary schools in 2004. The bill puts France on course to become the second European country after Belgium to declare the wearing of such veils illegal in public places. There are several types of headscarves and veils for Muslim women - those that cover the face being the niqab and the burka. In France, the niqab is the version most commonly worn.
Jews and Buchanan
The National Jewish Democratic Council wants to censor Pat Buchanan for pointing out that five of the last seven Justices nominated by Democratic Presidents since JFK have been Jewish.
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Blacks with college degrees earn substantially less than white college graduates
African-Americans who have a bachelor's degree and higher have a higher unemployment rate than whites who have only a two-year college degree. In 2008, the mean annual income of blacks with a four-year degree was more than $13,000 less than that of whites with the same level of education. And blacks who had a master's earned about $1,500 a year less than whites with a bachelor's degree.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The wealth gap between white and African-American families increased more than four times between 1984-2007
Middle-income white households now own far more wealth than high-income African Americans. Many African Americans hold more debt than assets and at least 25% of African-American families had no assets to turn to in times of economic hardship.
A new study says women who wed men who are much older — or much younger — have an increased risk of death
According to the study, women marrying a partner seven to nine years younger increase their relative mortality risk by 20% compared with couples who are both the same age. If your partner is seven to nine years older, your relative mortality increases by only 8%.
Armed with a stun gun, a black woman chased a restaurant worker over a botched order
Angered that drive-thru workers at a Wendy's botched her order, a black woman in Florida stormed the Daytona Beach restaurant and tried to tase an employee with a stun gun. Melanese Reid, 20, became enraged after fast food workers failed to provide her with the requisite number of mustard and mayonnaise packets. After Reid and Katrina Bryant, 23, argued with drive-thru employee Jason Hill (and called him "bitch" and "faggot") Hill "told them that they were childish and to leave," according to a charging affidavit prepared by cops. Reid then attempted to slap Hill, but the worker was able to deflect her hand. At that point, witnesses told cops, Reid and Bryant exited their red PT Cruiser and entered the Wendy's. While inside, Reid, armed with a pink Cheetah brand stun gun, chased Hill "around the kitchen/employee area of the restaurant with the Taser turned on and making the 'electric' noises." For her part, Bryant "cheered [Reid] on" while continuing the previous argument using "profane and discriminatory language." After Hill escaped, the women fled when a Wendy's manager announced that she was calling police. Reid and Bryant were arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony. The stun gun was recovered from one of the women's purses. While Reid denied ever going inside Wendy's, Bryant contradicted her pal's claim. Bryant told cops that after Hill released Reid's hand at the drive-thru window, Reid entered the restaurant and threatened the worker with the handheld stun gun.
White mother cries because her daughter isn't biased against whites
A 5-year-old girl in Georgia is being asked a series of questions in her school library. The girl, who is white, is looking at pictures of five cartoons of girls, all identical except for skin color ranging from light to dark. When asked who the smart child is, she points to a light-skinned doll. When asked who the mean child is she points to a dark-skinned doll. She says a white child is good because "I think she looks like me", and says the black child is ugly because "she's a lot darker." As she answers her mother watches, and gently weeps. Her daughter is taking part in a new CNN pilot study on children's attitudes on race and her answers actually reflect one of the major findings of the study, that white children have an overwhelming bias toward white, and that black children also have a bias toward white but not nearly as strong as the bias shown by the white children. The mother, whose name the study prohibits from being used, says her daughter has "never asked her about color" and that the results of the test were an eye opener, and she says she and her daughter "talked a long time about it."
Homosexuality kills approximately four times as many people as drunk driving
Half Sigma wants to know why there is no public information campaign warning people of the dangers of gay sex?
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For the first time ever, Africa is the source of a majority of Minnesota's legal immigrants, with Somalis topping the list
The flow of immigrants to Minnesota is quietly reaching record highs amid signs of what could prove to be a profound and lasting shift in their continents of origin. For the first time ever, African nations are supplying more than half the state's legal immigrants. Four countries from that continent now stand atop the list. Arrivals are doubling and quadrupling from countries such as Kenya and Liberia even as numbers are tapering off, for a variety of reasons, from past immigrant taproots such as India, Thailand and Russia, federal data show.
Armed robberies are 28 times more frequent in South Africa than in Japan
According to the South African police, nearly 2.1 million crimes were recorded in South Africa in 2008. About 30% were cases of murder, assault causing injury, or robbery. There were about 18,000 murders, and about 121,000 armed robberies. Sixty percent of armed robberies occurred on public streets. Although South Africa's population is one-third of Japan's, it is plagued by 14 times more murders and 28 times more armed robberies.
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at any point in time, 1.4 million people worldwide suffer from infections acquired in hospitals. A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report published in March-April 2007 estimated the number of U.S. deaths from healthcare associated infections in 2002 at 98,987. The risk of acquiring healthcare-associated infections in developing countries is 2-20 times higher than in developed countries. Afflicting thousands of patients every year, HAI often leads to lengthening hospitalization, increasing the likelihood of readmission, and adding sizably to the cost of care per patient.
Monday, May 17, 2010
The worldwide eradication of smallpox may, inadvertently, have helped spread HIV infection
Experts say the vaccine used to wipe out smallpox offered some protection against the AIDS virus and, now it is no longer used, HIV has flourished. The investigators said trials indicated the smallpox jab interferes with how well HIV multiplies. Smallpox immunization was gradually withdrawn from the 1950s to the 1970s, following the worldwide eradication of the disease, and HIV has been spreading exponentially since then. The smallpox vaccine appeared to cut HIV replication five-fold.
Only 21% of mainline U.S. Protestants had income of $100,000 or more, compared with 46% of Jews and 42% of Hindus
I find it truly ironic that so many white Protestants are pro-diversity when diversity seems to be working against them.
Jews don't like the taste of their own medicine
Under Canadian hate crime laws the Jewish slur for a gentile woman "shiksa" is now considered ethnically offensive. Jewish groups think that the term is acceptable even though it is offensive to gentiles and demeans non-Jewish women. Apparently, to the Jews, it is okay to be ethnically offensive as long as you are talking about white gentiles.
Elena Kagan and Half Sigma
Dennis Mangan wonders if Jewish ethnic solidarity has anything to do with Half Sigma's support for Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court.
Some interesting facts about Latinos and Arizona's new immigration law
(1) Sixty-four percent of the American public supports Arizona's new immigration law.
(2) Only 20% of non-Hispanics oppose the new law.
(3) In the 2008 Presidential Election, according to the Census Bureau survey, non-Hispanics cast 92.6% of the vote.
(4) In highly diverse public high schools in California, it usually becomes quickly apparent to students that average school performance typically follows a remarkably common hierarchy: Asians, then whites, then English-speaking Latinos, then blacks, and finally non-English speaking Latinos. At Live Oak, whites average 799 on California’s API scale, while Hispanics average 622.
(2) Only 20% of non-Hispanics oppose the new law.
(3) In the 2008 Presidential Election, according to the Census Bureau survey, non-Hispanics cast 92.6% of the vote.
(4) In highly diverse public high schools in California, it usually becomes quickly apparent to students that average school performance typically follows a remarkably common hierarchy: Asians, then whites, then English-speaking Latinos, then blacks, and finally non-English speaking Latinos. At Live Oak, whites average 799 on California’s API scale, while Hispanics average 622.
Obama's aunt from Kenya can stay in the United States, an immigration judge has ruled
I wonder how many more of his African relatives will he be bringing over from Kenya.
Crime and race in New York City
Blacks made up 55% of all police stops in 2009, though they’re only 23% of New York City’s population; whites accounted for 10% of all stops, though they’re 35% of the city’s population; Hispanics made up 32% of all stops, though 28% of the population, and Asians, 3% of all stops and 12% of the population. Blacks committed 66% of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009. Blacks committed 80% of all shootings in the first half of 2009. Together, blacks and Hispanics committed 98% of all shootings. Blacks committed nearly 70% of all robberies. Whites, by contrast, committed 5% of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009. Whites committed 1.8% of all shootings and less than 5% of all robberies. Any given violent crime is 13 times more likely to be committed by a black than by a white perpetrator.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
The Japanese government has blocked legal efforts to clamp down on child pornography
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan has refused to support legislation that would outlaw the possession of child pornography on the grounds that it would infringe individuals' freedom of expression. The DPJ opposed the bill and instead called for the definition of child pornography to be narrowed down.
Genes that let you live to be 100?
Scientists have apparently discovered genes whose lucky carriers have a much improved chance of living to be 100 even if they indulge in an unhealthy lifestyle. The genes appear to protect people against the effects of smoking and bad diet and can also delay the onset of age-related illnesses such as cancer and heart disease by up to 30 years. No single gene is a guaranteed fountain of youth. Instead, the secret of longevity probably lies in having the right collection of genes, according to studies of centenarians and their families. Such combinations are extremely rare — only one person in 10,000 reaches the age of 100. The genes appear to give a little extra protection against the diseases of old age. Centenarians seem to have a high chance of having several such genes embedded in their genomes. These genes are thought to include ADIPOQ, which is found in about 10% of young people but in nearly 30% of people living past 100. The CETP gene and the ApoC3 gene are found in 10% of young people, but in about 20% of centenarians. The studies show that tiny mutations in the make-up of particular genes can sharply increase a person’s lifespan. The human genome contains about 28,000 genes, but they are controlled by a tiny number of so-called regulator genes.
The joy of Internet access
A study has found that access to the Internet leads people to feel better about their lives. Looking at a number of social and economic factors that determine happiness — including gender, age, income and education — the survey showed that Internet use empowers people by increasing their feelings of security, personal freedom and influence.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Mean IQ in Islamic and non-Islamic countries
Research has found that the Muslim country mean IQ of 81 is half a standard deviation below the mean IQ of non-Muslim nations and is not related to strength of Muslim culture as defined by the percentage of Muslims in the country. The mean IQ of 84 in Arab countries is not associated with per capita income and is incompatible with the intellectual achievements of the golden age of the Muslim Empire. Possible explanations for this decline include hybridization with sub-Saharan Africans, dysgenic decrease in the more educated Muslims employing birth control as suggested by Meisenberg, the Muslim religion not fostering critical thinking, and the intellectual contributions being both exaggerated and made by non-Muslims.
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Were ancient humans racially divided?
Research on ancient humans seems to suggest that people in Africa had already divided into genetically distinct groups before Homo sapiens moved into the Middle East. This may mean that racial divisions and racism have been favored by natural selection.
Is Ireland a hotbed of Islamic extremism?
That is the view of Imam Ali Al-Saleh, who is the head of Ireland's biggest Mosque, the Islamic Cultural Center in Dublin. Al-Saleh said many Islamic extremists came to Ireland as asylum seekers and now their children are becoming adults, taking over university societies, brainwashing other students. These Islamic extremists are being bolstered by students from the Middle East. As Al-Saleh puts it, Ireland is an extremist safe haven and an al Qaeda base.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Why do Democrats like nominating Jews to the Supreme Court?
If Elena Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2% of the U.S. population, will have 33% of the Supreme Court seats. Of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats, five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. Not in living memory has a Democratic president nominated an Irish, Italian or Polish Catholic, though these ethnic communities once gave the party its greatest victories in the cities and states of the North and not in nearly half a century has a Democratic president nominated a white Protestant or white Catholic man or woman.
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Jewish Ethnocentrism
Do we really want Commissar Kagan?
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Neanderthals and the weak version of the Out of Africa theory of human origins
Modern humans are largely descended from a series of population expansions that began around 80,000 years ago somewhere in eastern Africa and culminated about 60,000 years ago in a major population event that would create 96-99% of the gene pool outside Africa. The remaining 1-4% came from Neanderthals in Europe and West Asia, and other human ancestors elsewhere. This admixture seems to have occurred in two stages: an early one in the Middle East, when modern humans began spreading out of Africa, and a later one, when modern humans began to spread from Asia to Oceania. Curiously, the admixture looks Neanderthal in both cases.
Male physical competition, not attraction, was central in winning mates among human ancestors
Scientists thought that people's mating success was mainly determined by attractiveness; but for men, it appears that physical competition among males was more important. Humans are similar to many of the apes in using male competition to determine access to mates, the winning male choosing the women of his dreams. On average men are not all that much bigger than women, only about 15% larger, but the average guy is stronger than 99.9% of women. Men have 60% more muscle mass than women. Other traits indicate physical prowess was the major force in human mate competition through history. Men are far more aggressive than women, and approximately 30% of men in small-scale foraging communities die violently.
Just one-in-ten Hispanic high school dropouts has a General Educational Development (GED) credential
In contrast, two-in-ten black high school dropouts and three-in-ten white high school dropouts have a GED. The relatively low level of GED credentialing among Hispanic high school dropouts is especially notable because Hispanics have a much higher high school dropout rate than do blacks or whites. Some 41% of Hispanics ages 20 and older in the United States do not have a regular high school diploma, versus 23% of comparably aged blacks and 14% of whites. Hispanics are the nation's largest minority group; they make up 47 million, or 15%, of the population of the United States. As of 2008, there were 29 million Hispanics ages 20 and older.
Children and so-called white bias
A study shows that white and black children tend to associate white skin with positive attributes and dark skin with negative ones.
Genes and marriage
Recent studies suggest that genetic factors may influence commitment and marital stability. Hasse Walum, a biologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, studied 552 sets of twins to learn more about a gene related to the body’s regulation of the brain chemical vasopressin, a bonding hormone. Over all, men who carried a variation in the gene were less likely to be married, and those who had wed were more likely to have had serious marital problems and unhappy wives. Among men who carried two copies of the gene variant, about a third had experienced a serious relationship crisis in the past year, double the number seen in the men who did not carry the variant.
The ability of Tibetans to live at high altitudes may be due to their DNA
Researchers found 10 genes which help Tibetans thrive at heights where others get sick. Two of the genes are linked to hemoglobin - the substance in blood that transports oxygen round the body. Altitude sickness is the name given to ill-effects caused by the body's struggle to deal with a lack of oxygen at high altitude. It can lead to brain and lung complications, which can threaten even the fittest mountaineers. People native to high altitudes appear to be immune to such effects, through thousands of years of genetic selection.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Slavery continues to exist in African nations in the 21st century
Slavery in modern Africa is practiced most notably in Sudan, Ghana, Mauritania, Benin, Gabon, Mali, and the Ivory Coast, where tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of people are enslaved.
Blacks are only 12.4% of the U.S. Population, but they commit 33.6% of the rapes of white females
Reginald Thompson argues that a white female is at least 9 times more likely to be raped by a black man than by a white male. He also says that when a black man marries a white woman, he is 82% more likely to murder her than if he was married to a black female.
China's first man in space has said that Chinese astronauts eat dog meat to keep their strength up as they orbit around Earth
Yang Liwei, the military pilot who commanded the Shenzhou Five mission in 2003, revealed the menu on-board the spacecraft in his autobiography. He listed a menu including braised chicken, steamed fish and dog meat from Huajiang county in Guangdong, which is famed for its nutritional benefits in China. He said that the diet had been specially drawn up for the astronauts by Chinese nutritionists and that the food had been purchased from special suppliers in Beijing. Dog is widely eaten in northern China, where it is believed to help battle the winter cold. The menu was still in use in 2009, when Chinese astronauts conducted their first ever spacewalk.
70% of Massachusetts voters favor a proposal that would stop illegal immigrants from receiving public benefits
A telephone survey shows that just 17% of Massachusetts voters oppose the proposal to prevent illegal immigrants from gaining access to public housing, unemployment benefits, welfare or workers compensation.
The genetic consequences of the Arab trans-Saharan slave trade
The slave trade initiated by the Arab conquest of North Africa in the seventh century has resulted in 1/4 to 1/2 of the North African gene pool being made up of sub-Saharan African mitochondrial DNA lineages.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
A black woman has been accused of stabbing her husband with scissors because she was unhappy with his performance in bed
Michelle Thomas, 26, was arrested after police were called to the couple’s house in the east Texas town of Hudson. The man told police Thomas became angry with him after a sex session left her unsatisfied. He said Thomas grabbed a pair of scissors and began slashing him, according to court papers. The court affidavit states police found the man with superficial cuts to his chest, thumb and knee. Thomas alleges her partner was drunk, threw her onto the bed and began choking her. But police found no injuries on Thomas, according to the affidavit. The man said he only touched Thomas during the sexual encounter. Thomas was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, although the man told officers he didn't want to press charges. Thomas faces up to 20 years in jail.
Adults with sickle cell disease scored worse on memory function tests than healthy adults, suggesting the blood disorder may affect brain function
Researchers have found that people with sickle cell disease scored lower on tests of intellect, working memory, processing speed and attention span than healthy people. The differences in intelligence were striking enough that researchers worry some patients might have trouble staying employed, managing their money and keeping track of their medications. The oldest and the sickest sickle cell patients scored the worst, suggesting the longer a person lived with the disease or the worse it was, the bigger the effect on brain function.
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Why do Mexican immigrants prefer Arizona to New Mexico?
Steve Sailer explains that New Mexico is less attractive to Mexican immigrants than Arizona because it has a much larger Hispanic population which means that it is almost as economically backward as Mexico itself. Mexican immigrants know that if you want to find a job you must go to the states with the most white people.
38% of California's prison population is Latino
California spends around $3 billion on Hispanic prisoners. As California's Hispanic population continues to increase this cost is only going to go higher.
A Catholic schoolgirl has been branded a 'truant' by her teachers after she refused to dress as a Muslim for a school field trip to a mosque
Staff had ordered 14-year-old Amy Owen and her classmates to dress in headscarf, wear trousers or leggings and keep her arms covered for the compulsory visit to the mosque after it was arranged to promote 'community cohesion.' Parents at the 1,100 pupil Ellesmere Port Catholic High School in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire were also told they were each required to make a £3 contribution towards the trip for all Year Nine students. But when Amy refused to dress in Muslim attire for the visit to Al Rahma Mosque in Toxteth, Liverpool, staff warned her about rules and said refusal would mean non attendance which would then be marked down as an 'unauthorised absence.' In a stern letter to her family with words in block capitals and underlined, the school's headmaster Peter Lee said the visit was 'as compulsory as a geography field trip.' He added: 'There are two reasons for these visits. One is that the scheme of work in religious studies REQUIRES children to have knowledge and understanding of other world religions. The second is that the school is REQUIRED to promote tolerance respect and understanding. This is known as community cohesion. A failure to do this could result in an unwelcome inspection judgement. None of us would relish that. Whilst I may not require you to pay for this I must require your child to participate.' It is believed up to ten other families from Amy's Year 9 classes also refused to dress as Muslims and were marked down in the truanting register.
Americans continue to overwhelmingly believe that English should be the official language of the United States
A national telephone survey finds that 87% of Adults favor making English the nation's official language. This is the highest level of support yet but in line with what voters have been saying for several years. Just 9% disagree. Eighty-three percent (83%) say a company doing business in this country should be allowed to require its employees to speak English. Eleven percent (11%) say companies should not be permitted to require their employees to speak English on the job. Only 10% of Americans say requiring people to speak English is a form of racism or bigotry. Eighty-four percent (84%) disagree and say that's not true. Twelve percent (12%) believe that declaring English the official language would limit free speech in this country, but 78% feel otherwise and see no limits being placed on free speech. The findings come at a time when President Obama and major Hispanic groups, among others, are protesting Arizona's new law empowering local police to stop those they suspect of being illegal immigrants. Despite national protests and threats of boycotting Arizona, 59% of U.S. voters continue to support the state law, which Arizona officials say is necessary because the federal government is not doing its job to halt illegal immigration. Fifty percent (50%), in fact, have an unfavorable opinion of those who protested the law in marches and rallies. Support for English as the official language is high across all demographic groups. However, Republicans consistently support it more strongly than Democrats and adults not affiliated with either party. Ninety-five percent (95%) of those who work in the private sector think companies should be allowed to require their employees to speak English on the job, a view shared by just 69% of government employees. Over 80% of whites, blacks and those of other racial and ethnic backgrounds agree that requiring people to speak English is not a form of racism or bigotry. These groups also agree by similar percentages that such a requirement is not a limit on free speech in this country. Eighty percent (80%) of voters believe that those who move to America should adopt American culture. The president in remarks July 2009 said that “instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English,” Americans “need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.” But Americans strongly disagree: Eighty-three percent (83%) place a higher priority on encouraging immigrants to speak English as their primary language. Just 13% take the opposite view and say it is more important for Americans to learn other languages.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
More than 1 million illegal immigrants are living in Britain — double the British government’s most recent estimate
A proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants could add a total of 2.2 million to the British population because each of the 1.1 million regularized illegals would be entitled to bring at least one spouse, child or other family member into Britain.
Why does Pakistan export jihad?
Fareed Zakaria writes that since its founding the Pakistani government has supported and encouraged jihadi groups, creating an atmosphere that has allowed them to flourish.
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A black man faces murder charges for killing his elderly neighbor and her daughter
Roanoke Rapids Police say Tony Gorham robbed and killed Alice McCrary and her daughter, Nancy Burgess. They say McCrary was speaking to her son and said her neighbor was at the door and wanted to use the phone. The son called police later when no one answered the phone.
Lafourche Parish deputies have arrested four Hispanic men who raped and killed a woman before trying to hide her body in the woods
Deputies charged Gonzalo Portillo Cortes, Esdras Sanchez Garcia, Luis Nava and Jose Castillo Moreno with aggravated rape and first-degree murder. Lesley Peters, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Office, said deputies found the four men in their vehicle in Houma, where they were residing. Peters said the victim, 33-year-old Angela Laudun, voluntarily left a Galliano bar to allegedly have sex with the men in exchange for money at a home the men were repairing. Laudun, Peters said, became concerned at one point and tried to get away, but the suspects held her down and repeatedly raped her. Peters said after killing Laudun, the men put her body in an SUV, drove to the woods just north of Golden Meadow and left her there. Later a local resident bush hogging found the body and reported it to the Sheriff's Office.
South Asians are committing gendercide in Britain
South Asians in Britain are copying their Indian cousins and aborting their unborn daughters.
The racial gap in Iowa
Minority students at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa especially black, Hispanic and American Indian students graduate at lower rates than their white peers, with the biggest gap between black and white students. The graduation gap is not universal across all minority groups. Asian-American students often have higher rates than white students. Officials want to improve graduation rates for black, Hispanic and American Indian students. The minority graduation gap is a crisis nationally in higher education and before students arrive at college. Nationally, high school graduation rates are about 70%, but rates for black, Hispanic and low-income students are lower, at slightly more than 50%.
Elena Kagan and free speech
Patrick Cleburne explains why Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court will promote a pro-Jewish/pro-diversity/anti-white gentile agenda.
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Nearly one in five Israeli men between the ages of 35 and 54 do not work, including Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews
Nearly 27% of Arab men and 65% of ultra-Orthodox Jews don't work with the non-employment rate for ultra-Orthodox men having tripled since 1970. This nonproductive part of Israel's population, which survives largely on welfare, is also the fastest growing. Arabs and the ultra-Orthodox together make up less than 30% of the population, but they account for nearly half of school-age children. Over the last 30 years, the percentage of working ultra-Orthodox men has decreased because of government programs that subsidize their religious study.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Why do Jewish groups oppose American nationhood?
Many Jews consider white gentiles who are opposed to illegal immigration to be racists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other extremists.
Whites and Asians are more than twice as likely to hold a bachelor's degree as blacks and Latinos
In the last ten years, racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 83% of our population growth. Since most of this growth has come from Hispanic immigrants - both legal and illegal - this will probably mean that the percentage of Americans with college degrees will decline in the future.
Obama panders to his Jewish masters
Obama nominates Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court meaning that there will be no white Protestants on the court for the first time in its history. I wonder how all the diversity-supporting WASPs feel now that they have no representation on the court that their ancestors created?
Racial versus gender gap
Why is it that society is not as concerned with closing the gender gap in health as it is with closing the racial gap in education?
Witchcraft and barbarism in Africa
Attackers in Burundi chopped off the limbs of a 5-year-old albino boy and pulled out his mother's eye, killing them over the belief that their body parts would bring wealth and success. Those deaths and other recent attacks in Tanzania are part of long pattern of violence against African albinos. At least 10,000 have been displaced or gone into hiding since attacks against them spiked in late 2007. Since then, 57 albinos have been killed in Tanzania and 14 in Burundi. The killings are fueled by superstitious beliefs that human albino body parts will bring others wealth and success. Body parts are sought for their supposed miraculous powers and some use them as human sacrifice as advised by witch doctors. African albinos endure insults and segregation throughout their lives, and face greater discrimination than Western albinos because they live in darker-skinned communities. They also have a high risk of contracting skin cancer in a region where many jobs are outdoors. Ten assailants armed with guns and grenades killed Desire Vyegura, 5, and his mother, Susann Vyegura, in Burundi. Both victims had their limbs chopped off. Attackers also pulled out one of Desire's eyes and chopped off his mother's breasts. The attack took place in Cankunko village in the Cendajuru district, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of the capital city, Bujumbura. The market for albino parts exists mainly in Tanzania, where a complete set of body parts — including all limbs, genitals, ears, tongue and nose — can sell for $75,000. Albino children who are not killed at birth will often face discrimination, ridicule and stigmatization by family and friends. Mothers often refuse to breast-feed albino babies and husbands accuse women of sleeping with white Europeans, leading to divorces. In Africa most albino children are brought up by single mothers. Before the recent killings, five other albinos had been attacked in Tanzania since February 2010. One of those albinos died.
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Life in Britain since 1997
Sean Gabb on what the rise of Tony Blair and the British Labour Party has caused:
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The English have chosen a new leader. Why must they pay to put him in office?
Since 1997, Britain has been turned from a reasonably free country into a police state. I have a good legal background. Even so, I no longer know what the laws are or how they are enforced. Indeed, it probably no longer matters what the laws say, as the police and administration often make them up as they go along.
Around 5,000 new criminal offences have been created. In the name of "equality" and "anti-racism", government power has been imposed into every area of private life. Call someone a "bloody immigrant", and go to prison. Refuse to accommodate homosexuals in your hotel, and go to prison. Refuse to employ an atheist in your religious school, and be shut down. Smoke in your own business premises, or allow others to smoke, and go to prison. Photograph a police officer while he is breaking the law, and go to prison. Upset a police officer, and be arrested, and have your DNA taken and stored on a database that is shared with several dozen foreign governments. Keep a firearm in your home for self-defence, and go to prison for five years.
Since 1997, habeas corpus has been abolished. We have serious criminal trials without juries. [First trial without jury approved, BBC News, June 18, 2009] The rule against double jeopardy has been abolished. Hearsay and similar fact evidence can be introduced. The police and 20,000 civil servants have the right to conduct warrantless searches of our homes. The police can authorise each other to break into homes to plant listening devices. Despite solid opposition, Labour is about to force to carry biometric identity cards that will give the authorities the ability to spy on—and therefore to control—every aspect of our private lives.
Nobody knows how many Third World immigrants have been encouraged to settle in the country. The official population of the United Kingdom is about 60 million. Based on sales of basic foodstuffs, the supermarkets believe the true population to be closer to 80 million. . [City Eye: Facts on a plate: our population is at least 77 million, By Martin Baker, October 28, 2007]It is impossible to say, as the true figures are either not collected or are hidden.
We know that the great majority of immigrants who have been granted citizenship vote for the Labour Party. There is also much anecdotal evidence—though this is not mentioned in the Main Stream Media—that illegal immigrants and "asylum seekers" are being registered to vote so that they can increase the Labour share of the vote.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
Is race really a cultural construct?
Here is how one reader at Andrew Sullivan's blog puts it:
If there is no "race" at the genetic level, then why is it that dark skinned people with very curly hair keep having children with dark skin and curly hair? Why do children of Asians look persistently different from children of Jews? There is something genetic happening that affects skin, hair, facial features, disease susceptibility, and a whole host of other things. But we are powerless to examine those differences because there's no such thing as "race" at the genetic level? The contention is absurd on its face.
Chinglish for dummies
Because the English and Chinese languages are so different, efforts by the Chinese to translate their language into English can often produce hilarious results. In restaurants in China, you can eat “fried enema” and “monolithic tree mushroom stem squid” and drink “The Jew’s Ear Juice.” If you want to buy clothes and you are on the large size then you can get them in “fatso” or “lard bucket.” If you need to use a public restroom then you should go to the "urine district" and if you have a medical problem in a sensitive region then you should visit the "Dondga Anus Hospital." Finally, what would a trip to China be without a walk through "Racist Park?"
Barack Obama has lost almost half of his support among Jewish Americans
A poll shows that 42% of Jewish-Americans would vote for Obama while 46% would consider voting for someone else and 12% said they did not know or refused to answer. In the Presidential elections of 2008, 78% of Jewish voters, or close to 8 out of 10, chose Obama. The recent poll held in April 2010 appears to show that support down to around 4 out of 10.
Testosterone, estrogen and male behavior
Estrogen, not testosterone, is what makes a male act like a male.
How to be influential in American politics
Jewish businessman, Haim Saban, admits that he promotes a pro-Zionist agenda in the United States by making donations to political parties, establishing think tanks, and controlling media outlets.
Pro-Zionist agenda promoted in the New York Times
Harold Bloom whines that anti-Zionism is the same as anti-Semitism.
Will Greece kill the European Union?
Europe’s consistent inability to move quickly enough to get ahead of the financial markets during the Greece crisis is shaking the euro and the foundations of the European Union itself, as critics of the euro have long predicted would happen. The question being raised with increasing urgency is whether the European Union can fashion a mechanism to speed decision-making before irreversible damage is done and the euro itself slips into history.
Black mother takes her 15 children to Walmart and leaves one behind
The black mother of a three year old, left at a Walmart, has been arrested and released on her own recognizance. Moriyyah Israel temporarily lost custody of 11 of her 15 children. Israel is charged with child endangering after leaving her daughter, Binah, in the store and, according to police, telling workers there that the child was not hers. Moriyyah Israel was questioned by police and appeared in juvenile court for a custody hearing. Family members say that Israel has 15 children - 11 under the age of 18 who she takes care of. They claim she inadvertently left the girl at Wal-mart. Court documents say the woman who left the child at Walmart specifically said it was not her child. Wearing handcuffs and leg irons, Moriyyah Israel seemed stunned in juvenile court, but agreed to temporarily give up custody of her children. Three-year-old Binah is one of 11 siblings who will be placed with family by Children's Services. Wal-mart workers say Binah had no underwear and had wet herself. They pitched in and bought her some food and new clothes. Family members say it was all an accident by a woman overwhelmed by taking care of 15 children. Moriyyah Israel had been married to the same man for 21 years, the father of 14 of her children, before he died. They say at that time, it became much harder for her to take care of the children. The family says she wasn't aware Binah was gone until the next morning. So far, no one has been able to explain that.
Young whites are leaving the suburbs
America's suburbs are now more likely to be home to minorities, the poor and a rapidly growing older population as many younger, educated whites move to cities for jobs and shorter commutes. An analysis of 2000-2008 census data by the Brookings Institution highlights the demographic tipping points seen in the past decade and the looming problems in the 100 largest metropolitan areas, which represent two-thirds of the U.S. population. The findings could offer an important road map as political parties, including the tea party movement, seek to win support in suburban battlegrounds in the fall elections and beyond. In 2008, Barack Obama carried a substantial share of the suburbs, partly with the help of minorities and immigrants. Analysts attribute the racial shift to suburbs in many cases to substantial shares of minorities leaving cities, such as blacks from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Whites, too, are driving the trend by returning or staying put in larger cities. Washington, D.C., and Atlanta posted the largest increases in white share since 2000, each up 5 percentage points to 44% and 36%, respectively. Other white gains were seen in New York, San Francisco, Boston and cities in another seven of the nation's 100 largest metro areas. About 83% of the U.S. population growth since 2000 was minority, part of a trend that will see minorities become the majority by mid-century. Across all large metro areas, the majority of the child population is now nonwhite. The suburban poor grew by 25% between 1999 and 2008 - five times the growth rate of the poor in cities. City residents are more likely to live in deep poverty, while a higher share of suburban residents have incomes just below the poverty line.
55% of Colorado voters favor a law like the one just adopted in Arizona in dealing with illegal immigrants
Fifty-five percent of Colorado voters favor a law like the one just adopted in Arizona that authorizes local police to stop individuals they suspect of being illegal immigrants, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state. Thirty-five percent oppose such a law. Nationally, 59% of voters favor a law like Arizona's. In Colorado, 79% of Republican voters and 56% of voters not affiliated with either major party favor a law that cracks down on illegal immigration like the one just adopted in Arizona. Fifty-six percent of Democrats oppose such a law. Bill Ritter, Colorado's Democratic governor, has said that he would veto legislation like the law just adopted in Arizona. Only 40% of voters in the state now approve of Ritter's performance as governor, while 58% disapprove. He announced in January 2010 that he would not seek reelection this year.
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England, Scotland and a fair voting system
Minette Marrin explains why Scottish independence would be good for both Scotland and England. At the end of 2006 a famous ICM poll found that 52% of Scots wanted independence from Britain and that 59% of the English favored separation from Scotland. So not only would it be good for Britain but also popular with both the English and the Scots.
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Kidnapping and murder at a Mexican wedding
Gunmen stormed into a church in the middle of a wedding ceremony in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, kidnapping the groom and three others, and killing one before fleeing, state prosecutors said. The shooting victim, described as a male in his early 20s, was shot in the back in the church parking lot. Local reports say he was fleeing from the scene when he was shot. The groom, his uncle, brother and best man were kidnapped. Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in Mexico, with more than 2,600 drug-related deaths in 2009. At least 870 people have been killed in Juarez in 2010, according to local reports. A report released in April 2010 by the Mexican government said Chihuahua state is the country's hardest-hit state by drug violence, with 6,757 people killed since the start of the drug war at the end of 2006.
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Hispanic attacks co-worker who made fun of his small penis
A Hispanic airport security screener has been charged with aggravated battery for attacking a co-worker with a baton. The insults stemmed from an X-ray of the accused captured during a training exercise with the airport's full-body scanning machines. An arrest report says the 44-year-old beat a co-worker who had been making joke's about the size of Rolando Negrin's private parts for the last year. Workers with the Transportation Security Administration saw Negrin's body during training of full-body imaging machines. The report says Negrin told police he could not take the jokes any more and lost his mind. According to the report, a witness heard Negrin tell the victim in Spanish to get on his knees and apologize or he would kill him.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
A black man has been convicted of the manslaughter of an Ecuadoran immigrant
A black man charged in the fatal beating of an Ecuadoran immigrant has been acquitted of a hate crime and murder but convicted of manslaughter. Despite the split verdict, Hakim Scott faces up to 40 years in prison - and the jury is still deliberating the fate of his co-defendant, Keith Phoenix. Scott and Phoenix were hit with hate-crime charges because victim Jose Sucuzhanay - walking down the street arm-in-arm with brother Romel - was pelted with racial and anti-gay epithets before being bludgeoned. Prosecutors claimed Scott, 26, instigated the Dec. 7, 2008, incident by jumping out of an SUV to hit Jose Sucuzhanay with a beer bottle and chase Romel - but said Phoenix, 30, delivered punishing blows with a baseball bat. The pair were tried together but had separate juries. Scott's deliberated just eight hours before convicting him of first-degree manslaughter, which carries 25 years, and attempted assault, which carries 15 years.
Muslims in the New York Police Department and a Pakistani terrorist
Brenda Walker wonders if Faisal Shahzad got any help from one of the 1500 Muslims in the NYPD.
Headless bodies found in Mexico
Three headless bodies showing signs of torture were found just outside Acapulco and the bodies of five other men with multiple gunshot wounds were discovered in a car north of the Pacific resort. Police in the southwestern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said the three beheaded men appeared to be in their 20s and 30s, but their identities and a motive had not been determined. The U.S. State Department has warned that parts of Guerrero state could be dangerous for travelers due to drug violence. More than 22,700 people have been killed in drug-related violence since December 2006.
Friday, May 7, 2010
U.S. jobless rate rose to 9.9% in April 2010
But the government’s broader measure of unemployment rose to 17.1%.
Arizona immigration poll
Poll finds that 61% of voters nationally think Arizona was right to take action instead of waiting for the federal government to do something on immigration. Significantly more voters think the Obama administration should wait and see how the new law works (64%) than think the administration should try to stop it (15%).
China has seen a dramatic rise in cases of syphilis, as a result of rapid social change
Syphilis is now the most commonly reported communicable disease in Shanghai, the second-largest city. Pregnant women are also increasingly passing the disease to their children, with more than one baby with congenital syphilis born every hour in 2008. No other country has seen such a rise since the discovery of penicillin. Syphilis was almost eradicated from China in the 1950s with a sweeping program of antibiotics and brothel shutdowns. But researchers say around 20 people in every 100,000 in China carries the infection. The rise is due to China's economic reforms and the growing number of migrant workers and men with expendable income, which has led to a growth in the commercial sex industry.
Minorities in Portland, Oregon
Report shows that minorities consistently lag behind whites on nearly every indicator:
• About 7% of whites drop out of high school, compared with 30% of minorities.
• One in three children of color live in poverty, compared with 12.5% for whites. The child-poverty rate for Native Americans is 46%, for African Americans 41% and for African immigrants 56%.
• People of color earn about half that of white individuals: $16,636 a year compared with $33,095. Individual income for Latinos is about one-third that of whites.
Pakistani merchants and job seekers in the United States are posing as Indians in the wake of the Times Square bomb attempt
According to the latest U.S. census data, some 210,410 people of Pakistani origin reside in the United States. Nearly 15,000 Pakistanis received U.S. immigrant visas in 2009.
Polygamy and social welfare fraud
Polygamy in France is linked to fraud, where Muslim men hijack a generous social welfare system to line their pockets with state funds from each of their wives. The National Consultative Commission on Human Rights in a 2006 report made a minimal estimate of 16,000 to 20,000 polygamous families in France, or some 180,000 people, including children.
White teen killed by black gang in London
A white teenage boy was chased through a playground by a mob of black youths wielding knives and baseball bats before being stabbed to death in London’s latest outbreak of gang violence. Nick Pearton, 16, who was cradled by his mother as he lay bleeding from multiple knife wounds, became the tenth teenager to be murdered in the capital in 2010. The white teen was attacked in Home Park, Sydenham, after apparently being lured to the recreation ground by a phone call and then ambushed. People nearby, who called police to report a disturbance in the park, said that they saw the boy, who is white, running away from a group of black youths armed with knives and baseball bats. He staggered to a nearby fried chicken shop where he collapsed on the floor. His mother, Kim, ran to the scene and neighbors spoke of hearing her cries as paramedics tried to save his life.
Jewish crimes against humanity
How come we never hear about the atrocities committed by Jewish communists in the Soviet Union?
Proportional representation in Britain
BNP chairman Nick Griffin explains why proportional representation would make Britain more democratic.
Voters have lost faith in Obama to craft solutions to the country's economic challenges
Just 39% say they trust Obama more than the GOP members in Congress. Only 39% of voters said they would vote to re-elect Barack Obama if the election were held today, while 50% say they would vote for someone else. A quarter of voters would definitely vote to re-elect Obama, while 37% would definitely vote for someone else.
Black football player arrested for raping 16-year-old girl
The victim in the Lawrence Taylor rape case is a 16-year-old runaway who was driven to a hotel where Taylor was staying by a pimp. The Hall of Fame ex-Giants linebacker was arrested by police and could be charged with third degree rape, which would involve having sex with a minor.
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Hispanics want Americans to apologize for wearing American colors on Cinco de Mayo
Latinos believe that wearing red, white and blue on Mexican holiday is disrespectful.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Latino kills white teacher at child's birthday party
Raul Rodriguez thought it was alright to kill his neighbor because he thought she was playing the music too loud at her 3-year-old's birthday party.
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South Asian racists attack white man in Britain
Reece Johnson was walking with his 5-year-old son and girlfriend when a mob of 20 South Asian youths surrounded him and attacked him. One of the South Asian gang even sliced open his left cheek with a knife.
South Asian violence and voter fraud in London
British reporter beaten up by South Asians while he was investigating voter fraud in east London.
White high school student beaten to death in Mexico
A white high school student, Elisabeth Mandala, goes to Mexico to pursue her dream of helping to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States and is found beaten to death.
Students were kicked off campus for wearing American flag t-shirts on Cinco de Mayo
Apparently American flags are offensive to Mexicans.
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What are Hispanics genetically?
Scientists have found that Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Columbians from the Caribbean coast had higher proportions of African ancestry than other Latino populations, while Mexicans and Ecuadorians showed the lowest level of African ancestry and the highest Native American ancestry. European migrant contributors were mostly from the Iberian Peninsula and Southern Europe. Evidence was also found for Middle Eastern and North African ancestry, reflecting the effects of Moorish and Jewish invaders on the Iberian population.
A group of scientists have concluded that about 1% to 4% of the genome of non-Africans is derived from Neanderthals
The scientists asserts that the interbreeding did not occur in Europe but in the Middle East - some 100,000 to 60,000 years ago - before the modern human populations of Europe and East Asia had split apart. This new research undercuts the present belief that all human populations draw from the same gene pool that existed a mere 50,000 years ago. The Neanderthals interbred only with non-Africans, the people who left Africa, which would mean that non-Africans drew from a second gene pool not available to Africans.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
White gentiles in Jewish movies
Kievsky reviews The Tollbooth, a movie about a Jewish woman dating a white gentile.
Low levels of prenatal tobacco smoke exposure are associated with a higher risk of developmental problems for African American children than whites
Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke has already been linked to prematurity and cognitive defects in young children. Previous research has also shown racial differences in metabolism of nicotine among adolescents, adults, and pregnant women. The current study focused on the developmental differences between 242 white and black children at 1 and 2 years of age. The study was limited to children whose mothers had measurable levels of cotinine - a biological byproduct of nicotine - in their blood during pregnancy. The researchers found that low-level prenatal tobacco exposure was associated with deficits in both motor and cognitive development, but only for black children. The children were assessed for cognitive and motor development. Although the researchers found no statistically significant association between prenatal tobacco exposures and lower scores in white children, they stressed expectant white mothers should still refrain from smoking. All women should be aware of the dangers of tobacco smoke to themselves and their developing babies, but the research suggests African American women should be particularly careful during pregnancy.
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