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Sep 26, 2010

Desmond Tutu: We Must Boycott and Isolate Israeli Universities

 



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Desmond Tutu: We Must Boycott and Isolate Israeli Universities

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:34 AM PDT

The University of Johannesburg's Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university's active support for and involvement in the Israeli military. Archbishop Desmond Tutu supports the move. He explains why. By Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Sabbah [...]

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Eight American Universities Say Yes to Apartheid

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 10:00 AM PDT

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A letter from Gaza appeared on the Web dated September 24, 2010. It was from a group of Gaza academics and students and sought to publicize the fact that eight American universities have recently signed agreements with various Israeli universities to offer U.S. students free semester long [...]

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Voices for peace?

Posted: 26 Sep 2010 08:55 AM PDT

By Paul J. Balles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz When Time Magazine carried an article on "Why Israel Doesn't Care about Peace", a whole coterie of American Zionist supporters reacted as if Time had become anti-Semitic. For any writer to cast the slightest aspersion on Israel's claim to wish for peace is tantamount to alleging [...]

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Being happy–is it good for the Jews? "Before Professor Dershowitz accused me of being an anti-Semite (news to me), I was a happy person. Since then, I'm still a happy person". –Michael Santomauro

An antisemite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an antisemite.--Michael Santomauro



Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish!!
Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box." --Michael Santomauro

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The NEW YORK TIMES: On Jim Russell--So?

 

The New York Times


September 26, 2010

In Politics, Just How Far Is Too Far?

THORNWOOD, N.Y.

Pshew. In this year of free-range Islamophobia, birtherism and on-demand rage, when politicians feel they must turn up the dial to 11 to be heard: No Shariah law! Repeal the 17th Amendment! Bring guns to your rallies! — it looks as if someone has finally managed to show how far is too far.

That someone is Jim Russell, the obscure Republican taking on Representative Nita Lowey in the 18th Congressional District that includes much of Westchester County and a slice of Rockland. TheRepublican Party plans to go to court to remove him from the ballot and says it will endorse another candidate after the Web site Politico turned up a 2001 essay in which Mr. Russell seemed to embrace, among other things, racial separatism, eugenics and an assortment of historical and literary figures with anti-Semitic or Nazi ties. It also turns out that he has attended gatherings of groups with white nationalist views.

Mr. Russell's offending words came in an article titled "The Western Contribution to World History," published in The Occidental Quarterly, a journal that's home to many far-right writers and scholars.

Most of it is quite bland. Some of it is not. One section takes in the mating behavior of finches, "the destructiveness of school integration, especially in the middle and high school years," and media moguls promoting miscegenation in films directed toward youths. "In the midst of this onslaught against our youth, parents need to be reminded that they have a natural obligation, as essential as providing food and shelter, to instill in their children an acceptance of appropriate ethnic boundaries for socialization and for marriage," Mr. Russell wrote.

Yikes. No wonder it was featured for a while on the Web site of the former Louisiana politician and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. (For good measure he also in 1996 had a letter published in the Journal News saying court orders can't alter what nature has preordained: "that it is normal and healthy for people to prefer the company of their own kind in their neighborhoods and schools."

THAT said, in an election year with no brakes, Mr. Russell in person seems pretty tame: he is a soft-spoken 56-year-old father of two daughters with a doctorate in historical theology from Fordham University. Mr. Russell got about a third of the vote when he ran against Ms. Lowey in 2008. Mr. Russell's campaign has mostly been relatively mainstream conservatism focused on immigration, economics and opposition to Westchester's federal Fair Housing settlement. He cites Ron Paul as a big influence, but you can find more rabid political red-meat in other races.

Mr. Russell said Republicans were being "hypersensitive" in dropping their endorsement but that, in retrospect, some of his writings went too far. "It was 10 years ago," he said of the essay. "Some of it's a little bit more strident than I would put it today."

Still, it's not entirely clear what his being the target of ritual stoning says about the fickle nature of political pariahhood.

Maybe Mr. Russell's potential banishment indicates that at least segregation is off the table, but then there's Rand Paul, the Tea Party favorite in Kentucky, who has suggested that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was too broad and should not apply to private businesses, like luncheonettes.

Perhaps Representative Eliot L. Engel, a Democrat, was taking a cheap shot when he asked why Mr. Russell got the boot while the Republican candidate for governor, Carl P. Paladino, got a pass for sending racist and pornographic e-mails, but the e-mails are a lot grosser than Mr. Russell's essay.

What to make of the assertion of the Nevada Republican Senate nominee, Sharron Angle, that the Second Amendment was added so people could protect themselves against a tyrannical government, and "if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies"? And then there's State Representative Tom Emmer, the Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota, whose view of the ability of states to nullify federal laws approximates that of Jefferson Davis.

You wonder what would have happened if Mr. Russell were in a competitive race or if he were sitting on a wad of cash to finance his own campaign. After all, there's a candidate running for the Senate in Connecticut whose contribution to Western civilization might have merited a dour footnote in Mr. Russell's essay and whose Republican primary opponents depicted her business's health and safety record in ways that could have described the gladiators in the Roman Coliseum. But then she also has $50 million or so to rub off those rough edges. Or maybe it would take more than $50 million to save Mr. Russell from his own words.

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CHILLING LINK- Please watch this one!

 

From: Nick Maine <nmaine@bigpond.net.au>


Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:33 PM

France losing its destiny

This is a chilling video of what will happen to all civilised countries unless we rid ourselves of the criminal politicians who have created this situation. Past politicians who now live in luxury at taxpayer expense should be arrested and their assets confiscated then tried in a criminal court.

Australia will you listen next time and put the criminal major parties last on your ballot paper and it is best to put the Greens last as they are basically stooges for the labor party. 

Are you going to keep passing this advise on so that by the next elections the sheeple will be awakened and vote to save themselves.  

Now look at the video:-

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Why doesn't this get onto our TV screen and in the newspapers???

http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnplayer.swf?aid=17933

WAKE UP EVERYONE THIS WILL COME HERE UNLESS WE GET RID OF THE GREENS THIS NEEDS TO BE PASSED AROUND AS FAR AS POSSIBLE

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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John Graham: Why is the American Bar Association swinging Left?

 

John Graham: Why is the American Bar Association swinging Left?

http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=3444

The alert but not particularly conservative Politico webzine has an interesting item "Right sees law group tilting left" by Josh Gerstein (9/25/10):

The American Bar Association, which was dogged for decades by criticism over a perceived liberal bent, is risking reigniting that debate by taking bold stands on a pair of hot-button social issues.

At its annual meeting last month in San Francisco, the nation's largest lawyers' group passed a formal resolution, urging every state in the union to permit same-sex marriages.

In June, the ABA took what it acknowledged was an "extraordinary action" by filing a brief urging a federal judge in Arizona to block enforcement of that state's highly controversial law intended to crack down on illegal immigration

What is going on? Apparently what is going on is that the ABA's new president is Stephen Zack of Miami, of whom Politico says that he

defended the group's support for same-sex marriage and its opposition to the Arizona immigration law as part of the organization's broad duty to defend civil rights…

The fact that the public is sharply divided on the gay marriage issue and appears to broadly support the Arizona immigration law isn't relevant to whether the bar group should speak out on those issues, Zack insisted. "If that was the touchstone then in the 50s, we should not have taken a stand opposing segregation," Zack said.

Evidently it is a personal matter:

Zack said his background has made him acutely aware of the danger of depriving people of their rights. "I came from Cuba in 1961. I'm the first Hispanic-American president of the American Bar Association," he said. "I keep that experience very close to me. To me, the loss of liberty is not a theoretical exercise. It actually happened."

Another of those socially conservative Hispanics? Well, not quite.

The preface to an article by Zack on Latina Lista (Guest Voz: First Latino President-elect of American Bar Association speaks out about civic education [November 20, 2009]) says

Mr. Zack will be the first president in the ABA's 131-year history who happens to be both Latino and Jewish.

And Zack himself says

In the early 1900s my grandfather had come to Cuba from Russia, looking for a better life, searching for freedom, hoping for the right to practice his religion and beliefs without persecution. For many years, he found that. He raised a family, worked hard and prospered. Unfortunately, there came a time when that changed for my family in Cuba.

When I was 13, we left Cuba to come to the United States. My grandfather became a refugee for the second time, once again having to flee his home in search of that better life…

Far from being Hispanic — his family spent apparently less than 60 years in Cuba –- Stephen Zack is yet another descendant of Russian Jews working off ancestral animosities against mythical Cossacks by wrecking the societies which so unwisely gave them shelter and hospitality.

Complain to Stephen N. Zack

John Graham is the lead author of the TOO article "Is the Madoff Scandal Paradigmatic?"

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Kevin MacDonald: Recent research on Individualism/Collectivism

 

Recent research on Individualism/Collectivism

Kevin MacDonald

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Individualism-Collectivism.html#KM

September 25, 2010

In cross-cultural perspective, the unique thing about European culture is the tendency for individualism. Individualism is the basis for Western modernization — for why the West has dominated the rest of the world. It is intimately linked with a suite of traits, including democratic and republic forms of government, relatively high status for women, relatively low ethnocentrism, moral universalism, and science.

Research on Individualism/Collectivism has become a rather large academic industry. Recent research has found genetic differences between individualist and  collectivist societies and has linked this dimension to economic growth and innovation. Several of these strands come together in a paper by Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gérard Roland, "Culture, Institutions, and the Wealth of Nations" put out by the Center for Economic Policy Research (short online version: "Does Culture Affect Long-run  Growth.")

The long version of the article notes that individualism/collectivism is "the main dimension of cultural variation."

Individualism emphasizes personal freedom and achievement. Individualist culture therefore awards social status to personal accomplishments such as important discoveries, innovations or great artistic achievements. On the other hand, individualism can make collective action more difficult because individuals pursue their own interest without internalizing collective interests. Collectivism makes collective action easier in the sense that individuals internalize group interests to a greater degree. However, it also encourages conformity and discourages individuals from standing out. This framework implies that individualism should encourage innovation, everything else equal, but collectivism should have an advantage in coordinating production processes and in various forms of collective action.

Their model relies on the idea that collectivist cultures are better at producing goods but that individualist cultures are better at creating innovations required for new products. Individualist cultures are therefore proposed to be better at producing growth, but not as good for efficiently producing goods once the technology is in place. In support, they note several anecdotal examples where technological innovations originating in Western societies led to products that were produced more efficiently in Japan. As another example, they note that General Motors was unable to introduce the Toyota culture based on teamwork and consensus into the United States.

This figure in the upper left below shows world-wide variation in individualism-collectivism ranging from yellow (individualist) to red (collectivist).

Geographical coincidence between serotonin transporter gene diversity and cultural traits of individualism–collectivism across countries. Gray areas indicate geographical regions where no published data are available. (a) Map of frequency distribution of Individualism-Collectivism. (b) Map of frequency distribution of S alleles of 5-HTTLPR. (c) Map of frequency of global prevalence of anxiety. (d) Map of frequency of global prevalence of mood disorders. Yellow to red colour bar indicates low to high prevalence. From Chiao and Blizinsky (2009).

Notice anything? Quite clearly, individualism is a European phenomenon.

Gorodnichenko and RolandIn essentially measure Europeanness  genetically, using Cavalli-Sforza's (1994) data on genetic distance based on blood groups and corrected for the percentage of an ethnic group in country. Although the authors see the genetic data as mere proxies for the cultural differences, needless to say, they are also proxies for underlying genetic differences between these culture regions that go well beyond genes for blood type.  By their measures, the US is the most individualistic country in the world, so that the closer countries are genetically to the US, the more individualistic they are. This is a strong correlation: "The strong negative correlation between genetic distance (computed relative to USA, which has a highly individualistic culture) and individualism suggest that genetic distance may be a strong instrument." 

The article also plugs into recent research indicating a genetic basis for individualism/collectivism. Collectivist cultures are associated with two genetic markers  both of which make people more prone to stress in the absence of the kind of social support found in collectivist cultures. Chiao and Blizinsky (2009) found a strong correlation between collectivism and the presence of a short (S) allele in the polymorphism 5-HTTLPR of the serotonin transporter gene SLC6A4 in 30 countries. This allele is known to put individuals at greater risk for depression when exposed to life stressors. The idea is that that collectivist cultures protect individuals from these risks by embedding them more strongly in communities with strong social links thus providing strong psychological support networks. Therefore the gene is more adaptive in collectivist cultures and probably selected against in individualist cultures.

Here's another figure from Chiao and Blizinsky (2009) again showing the rank order of cultures on individualism-collectivism but also showing the correlation with the percentage of the 5-HTTLPR allele.

Another (compatible) explanation is that people with the short form of the allele are more sensitive to social disapproval, as found in arecent paper by Thomason et al. People with the short form of the allele reacted more strongly to frowning faces — not a good trait if one is adopting non-conformist positions. It's a gene that those of us subjected to public opprobrium for politically incorrect views would do well to be without. 

Another genetic marker for collectivism is the G allele in polymorphism A118G in the ÃŽ¼-opioid receptor gene that leads to higher stress in case of social rejection. Way and Liebermann (2010) reason that this gene and the other genes linked thus far to individualism/collectivism operate by making people more socially sensitive. This in turn makes them more prone to depression in the absence of the strong social support available in collectivist cultures.For example,  adults who have had a serious personal loss have less activation in the ÃŽ¼-opioid system, suggesting that it is sensitive to social inclusion. They also point to a genetic variant in the monoamine oxidase system that is activated under conditions of social exclusion, although to date this gene has not been correlated with individualism/collectivism.

Relying on a paper by Fincher et al., Chiao and Blizinsky propose that ultimately worldwide differences in genes for individualism/collectivism were favored by natural selection because collectivism is better for combating pathogens such as infectious diseases and parasites. The basic idea is that collectivist cultures would be less open to new people and hence less likely to be infected; retaining the status quo is adaptive because change may allow diseases and parasites to enter the  culture.

However, it should be noted that Fincher et al. simply find a correlation between pathogen presence and collectivism. Their proposal for why such a correlation should occur is not based on any data. The authors note that the basic correlation of is with latitude: Warmer climates have fewer pathogens and are more likely to be collectivistic. This correlation is also compatible with my argumentthat the European tendency toward individualism is the result of lessened importance of group-based competition during the Ice Ages for the ancestors of Europeans because large kinship-based groups would not have been supported because of the ecological constraints imposed by a cold climate. Indeed, the explanation of collectivism as involving its utility in group-based competition has far more surface plausibility than an explanation based on the putative benefits of collectivism for avoiding pathogens.

Although not included in the Gorodnichenko and Roland study, another gene linked to non-conformity is the 7R allele of the D4 dopamine receptor gene associated with novelty seeking, impulsivity, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This allele is absent in China, although alleles derived from the 7R allele are common. Cochran and Harpending (2009, p. 112) suggest that this pattern may be due to high levels of social controls weeding out non-conforming individuals. "The Japanese say that the nail that sticks out is hammered down, but in China it may have been pulled out and thrown away."

This scenario of actively suppressing non-conformists does not fit well with the pathogen prevention explanation of non-conformity but fits well with the importance of getting rid of such a gene in the interests of promoting cohesive groups. Similarly, I have argued that there was strong selection for social conformity within traditional Jewish communities. People who were less ethnocentric were ultimately excluded from the gene pool.

In any case, getting back to the Gorodnichenko and Roland, innovation was measured by the number of patents per million of population. The figure below shows a strong correlation.

Individualism versus Patents per Million Population

However, G&R do not correct their results for IQ — a rather amazing omission considering that Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen's IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2002) found strong associations between economic development and measures of average national IQ. Notice in the  figure that Japan with a high average IQ has the highest level of patents as measured by G & R but they score in the middle on individualism/collectivism. Israel is another society that, compared to Western norms, is relatively collectivist (~60 on Hofstede's index) but relatively high on patents. We may anticipate that as China continues its spectacular development, they will also have increasing numbers of patents per capita, given its huge commitment to education in basic science and engineering.

On the other  hand, it has often been noted that because of the increasing dominance in the West of the financial sector, smart people are increasingly going into investment banking rather than engineering and basic science. Unlike engineering and basic science, the financial sector does not contribute to growth or innovation. Indeed, the recent financial collapse resulting from malfeasance in the  financial sector shows that this sector is quite capable of having a negative effect on economic growth.

Moreover, because of free trade policies, individualist  cultures are prone to exporting jobs to collectivist cultures with a strong sense that economic policy should be designed in the national interest. As a result of an unholy alliance between ethnic lobbies and business interests, individualist cultures are also prone to massive immigration of both skilled and especially low-IQ unskilled labor without regard for effects on national cohesiveness or any other costs.

European-derived cultures are committed to multiculturalism, and they are being swamped by economic refugees from collectivist cultures, dispossessing their founding peoples. In the long run,  in the absence of a political revolution against non-European immigration, it is highly doubtful that individualist cultures can survive. The research reviewed here indicates that predispositions to individualism/collectivism are genetically based. The biological basis of individualism/collectivism combined with an official ideology of multiculturalism means that people prone to collectivism will likely continue their collectivist ways even as citizens of individualist cultures. Certainly the lack of integration of Muslims in Western societies is a prime example of lack of integration. And, although Jews have certainly assimilated in many ways, they retain strong tiesto other Jewish communities and a strong sense of fear and loathing of erstwhile European majorities. As these peoples become the majority, there is no reason to suppose that they will retain individualist political and cultural institutions. As they say, demography is destiny.

Kevin MacDonald is editor of The Occidental Observer and a professor of psychology at California State University–Long Beach. Email him.

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Prof. Kevin MacDonald: Recent Research on Individualism-Collectivism PLUS a John Graham Blog

 




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Being happy–is it good for the Jews? "Before Professor Dershowitz accused me of being an anti-Semite (news to me), I was a happy person. Since then, I'm still a happy person". –Michael Santomauro

An antisemite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an antisemite.--Michael Santomauro



Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish!!
Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box." --Michael Santomauro

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