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Saturday, November 30, 2019
DAVID REICH NEXT QUESTION
Neanderthal, Denisovan, and other archaic human extinctions, last 50,000 years, were unnatural selection, not natural selection, true or false?
Closely related question: West Eurasian males mating with ANI females, natural or unnatural?
Related question: Why?
Closely related question: West Eurasian males mating with ANI females, natural or unnatural?
Related question: Why?
THE CHINESE BLAME OTHERS FOR EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THEIR STUPID COUNTRY AND CULTURE
Apparently, they blame us for the Taiping Rebellion. SEE WIKIPEDIA, ETC.
That was a biggie!
Christian missionaries are to blame, because the Chinese then slaughtered 20 TO 30 MILLION OF EACH OTHER!
2014
BREAKING: Chinese Ministry States: GM Soybeans Harm Health of China’s 1.3 Billion People. Chinese ‘Science & Technology Abstracts Newspaper’ under the leadership of China’s State Science & Technology Ministry, published a paper that may deeply damage the Biotech industry worldwide. The published paper, titled ‘Must face up to the harm caused by imported GM soybeans to the health of 1.3 billion Chinese people’ was written by Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice President of the Academy of Military Science. The paper calls for China to adopt strong preventative measures to assure bottom line protection for the life safety and health safety of the Chinese people.
That was a biggie!
Christian missionaries are to blame, because the Chinese then slaughtered 20 TO 30 MILLION OF EACH OTHER!
As for the United States for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance....We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."--
Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commandant, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing.
BREAKING: Chinese Ministry States: GM Soybeans Harm Health of China’s 1.3 Billion People. Chinese ‘Science & Technology Abstracts Newspaper’ under the leadership of China’s State Science & Technology Ministry, published a paper that may deeply damage the Biotech industry worldwide. The published paper, titled ‘Must face up to the harm caused by imported GM soybeans to the health of 1.3 billion Chinese people’ was written by Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice President of the Academy of Military Science. The paper calls for China to adopt strong preventative measures to assure bottom line protection for the life safety and health safety of the Chinese people.
BLACK LIVES MATTER WHEN CHINA MILITARY OPERATIONS AFRICA MIDDLE EAST SUBCONTINENT
it will use predominantly African negro mercenaries.
Trust me.
Trust me.
HELLO TO ALL THE ANTI IMPERIALISTS OUT THERE IN LIBERAL LA LA LAND
"Danish politicians are very cautious about what's going on. Not many will say it's a good idea to do too much business with the Chinese," he added.
Friday, November 29, 2019
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
PHENOMENOLOGY AND POPULAR CULTURE
Re Plato's Pop Culture Problem, and Ours Editorial, re Arnold Schwarzenegger and Plato,
I had not read this editorial when this post was first written, but just now saw it. I had even written the commissioner/councillor bit before reading it! Rather a coincidence really, my reference to a video store and nude dancing themes.
The NYT professor comes out, I think, favoring 'freedom' of property and press, regardless of where the chips fall re Plato, or Aeschylus. Doesn't he, more or less, have to? Perhaps I overstate his affiliations with the publication.
Could one ask for any better, more overt, connection between the freedom of the market place, constitutional expression and property rights of pornographers, and the American intellectual establishment?
He claims that Plato had ignored the distinction between the medium and the reality depicted in it. I would have thought, rather, that had been part of Plato's point.
His is really a sophistical defense of freedom of speech, wrapped in a lot of philosophical twaddle.
Could it have been any other way?
Cf. another (phenomenologist existentialist) philosopher, with 'flexible' views: Martin Heidegger, (I don't know whether he was good looking or not, but that is important to Americans),'Anything Goes', with popular culture.
Perhaps a mise en scene for a cartoon, with Andrew Martin, Sartre, Heidegger, this editorial author, and even perhaps Governor Scharzenegger (as an enforcer), would be in order?
Theme music: (IT REALLY SELDOM GETS BETTER THAN THIS, RE PHENOMENOLOGY THEME):
LOST IN A MASQUERADE
Think also, Carnival of Venice
and , oh why not say it,
DON GIOVANNI
I had not read this editorial when this post was first written, but just now saw it. I had even written the commissioner/councillor bit before reading it! Rather a coincidence really, my reference to a video store and nude dancing themes.
The NYT professor comes out, I think, favoring 'freedom' of property and press, regardless of where the chips fall re Plato, or Aeschylus. Doesn't he, more or less, have to? Perhaps I overstate his affiliations with the publication.
Could one ask for any better, more overt, connection between the freedom of the market place, constitutional expression and property rights of pornographers, and the American intellectual establishment?
He claims that Plato had ignored the distinction between the medium and the reality depicted in it. I would have thought, rather, that had been part of Plato's point.
His is really a sophistical defense of freedom of speech, wrapped in a lot of philosophical twaddle.
Could it have been any other way?
Cf. another (phenomenologist existentialist) philosopher, with 'flexible' views: Martin Heidegger, (I don't know whether he was good looking or not, but that is important to Americans),'Anything Goes', with popular culture.
Perhaps a mise en scene for a cartoon, with Andrew Martin, Sartre, Heidegger, this editorial author, and even perhaps Governor Scharzenegger (as an enforcer), would be in order?
Theme music: (IT REALLY SELDOM GETS BETTER THAN THIS, RE PHENOMENOLOGY THEME):
LOST IN A MASQUERADE
Think also, Carnival of Venice
and , oh why not say it,
DON GIOVANNI
DAVID REICH CLOSES THE BOOK
with an analogy between ancient and modern orthodox Hebrew nationwide endogamy ideology, and Reich's nonreligious globalist multiculturalist mixture ideology.
DAVID REICH NEANDERTHALS DENISOVANS OTHER ARCHAIC HUMANS WENT EXTINCT FOR FUN
IT IS REALLY AN ENLIGHTENMENT LOCKEAN REASONED ACCOUNT OF PREHISTORY. IT IS ALMOST AS IF THE GOOD BUT OBSOLETE ARCHAIC HUMANS AGREED WITH THE MODERN HUMANS TO GO.
ALMOST A SOCIAL CONTRACT KIND OF ARCHAIC THING. ALL OF THEM GOOD HOMINIDS.
Sunday, October 13, 2019
MODERN HUMANS REICH'S ACCOUNT LIKE A LOCKE TABULA RASA OUT OF AFRICA
'The spread was so fast that it is hard to believe that archaic humans put up any resistance at all', really.
East Asia, West Eurasia, same almost instantaneous story he tells.
It somehow does not fit his male dominator mixture paradigm, so he can dismiss it as something he need not comment on adversely.
It is almost as if they were talked into their graves, reasoned into their graves by more enlightened humans than they, went extinct voluntarily without a struggle, acknowledged they were obsolete.
Hardly even any evidence of his favorite ancient human process, mixing. Almost no mixing here, between archaic humans, who had been there for almost 2 million years, with modern humans. Just an abrupt quiet early and welcome grave, to hear Reich recount it.
He makes it sound like a brief and peaceful liberal transition to modernity. David Reich, p. 191. An effect akin to erasing a blackboard, creating a blank slate for the new people......
I will tell you a different story, a darker story, anon.
'The spread was so fast that it is hard to believe that archaic humans put up any resistance at all', really.
East Asia, West Eurasia, same almost instantaneous story he tells.
It somehow does not fit his male dominator mixture paradigm, so he can dismiss it as something he need not comment on adversely.
It is almost as if they were talked into their graves, reasoned into their graves by more enlightened humans than they, went extinct voluntarily without a struggle, acknowledged they were obsolete.
Hardly even any evidence of his favorite ancient human process, mixing. Almost no mixing here, between archaic humans, who had been there for almost 2 million years, with modern humans. Just an abrupt quiet early and welcome grave, to hear Reich recount it.
He makes it sound like a brief and peaceful liberal transition to modernity. David Reich, p. 191. An effect akin to erasing a blackboard, creating a blank slate for the new people......
I will tell you a different story, a darker story, anon.
I will tell you a different story, a darker story, anon.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
NEANDERTHALS AND MODERN HUMANS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Let's just describe the prehistory from the record that exists.
Neanderthals were very gradually driven to ground, over thousands of years of conflict, in what can only be described as a race or civilizational long war of attrition with modern human migrants out of Africa.
Neanderthals certainly weren't killed off suddenly by diseases.
They held territory, lost it, regained it, and lost it, over thousands of years of strife, from 2,600 to 5,400 years of overlap, according to Higham.
They intermixed slightly with modern humans, but that intermixing was minor compared to the violent population replacement that occurred gradually over a wide area over thousands of years.
Neanderthals weren't driven extinct by natural selection at all.
They were driven extinct by cultural conflict with modern human populations from which they differed markedly and readily identifiably in appearance and cultural heritage.
There is plenty of evidence in the fossil record that Neanderthals were often hunted and eaten like prey by modern humans in many places. Doubtless, the reverse is also true. Caves overlooking the Mediterranean in Spain are perhaps the most well known site.
It seems feasible, and probably genetically determinable, that Neanderthals were substantially more intelligent than modern humans.
It seems feasible, and probably genetically determinable, that Neanderthals were substantially more intelligent than modern humans.
LITIGATION AS TEAM PLAY TRIAL LAW AS A TEAM SPORT
This concept has taken hold with a vengeance everywhere it seems.
It is not just about retaining a law firm whose lawyers practice to some extent as a trial team or teams.
No. That is hardly the full extent of it.
When a client or an injured person seeks the advice of a lawyer, they are invited to join and to be a member of that lawyer's team. That team can include not only other lawyers and paralegals in the firm, but also a whole stable of affiliated experts, depending on the kind and complexity of the matter.
The client is encouraged to be merely a member of a team, working with and for other members of the team, under the direction of the lawyer or lawyers. The client is required to be a team player for something larger than themselves from the beginning.
SO IS BEN JUDAH WRONG? IS THIS WESTERN PROPAGANDA?
One of the gravest challenges to Russia is thought to be the country's demographic crisis. But once migrants are taken into account the numbers don't look quite as bad. However this could have the result of turning a demographic crisis into an ethnic one.
Hamid drives a clapped-out Soviet bus in a Russian mining colony beyond the Arctic Circle, where temperatures regularly plunge below minus forty. Yet this native of the Uzbek deserts has few regrets about his decision to migrate to Putin’s empire.
“In my country there more men than jobs - In Russia there are more jobs than men.” He expresses himself in the faultless Russian of a Soviet education. “It’s easy for us to come and work here. The borders are not hard to cross, we speak the language and there are lots of people who can make you the permits.”
Russia is now an immigrant society. In Moscow and other major cities, migrants from the ex-Soviet states of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe do the work that natives turn down. Tajiks sweep the streets, Moldovans wait tables and Uzbeks work on construction sites. The metro flutters with flyers stuck inside carriages hawking the mobile numbers of professional forgers -“We Make Your Moscow Permit.”
Russia has become the second most popular destination for migrants in the world after the USA. In St. Petersburg hour long queues snake round the migration bureau where hundreds of migrants nervously swap cigarettes for job tips as they wait to register. Magadan on the Pacific has several Georgian restaurants and even on the dirt tracks of northern Siberia, Uzbek cafeterias are not uncommon.
Visa-free regimes between Russia and most of her former colonies, along with the endemic corruption of her Gogolian officialdom, mean few bother with the hassle of formal immigration. Nor have many much intention of returning to their weak and mostly impoverished states for more than a holiday.
In 2009 the Russian Migration Service claims over 10 million migrants entered the country. They add that as many as 5 million illegals“are living in the shadows.” Many experts agree that the migrant population is over 8.5 million, although off the record, some diplomats suggest the real figure may be over 15 million. That would be roughly 8 million more workers that the 6.7 million drop that Russia has recorded since 1991.
Ethnic or demographic crisis?
The danger of demographic collapse is frequently cited as the Achilles heel of Russia, with the original BRIC report noting that it posed a danger to the country’s growth. In fact Russia does not have an economic demographic crisis – instead she has a demographic crisis in terms of ethnic Russians and fully fledged citizens as a proportion of the population.
Ethnic Russians were officially 79% of the population in the suspect 2002 census which did not include migrants, and was widely accused of exaggerating the number of Russians while masking Chechen demography. Taken at face value the census suggests the country is as Russian as Israel is ethnically Jewish or the United States racially ‘white.’ However, if you include migrant workers, ethnic Russians may make up as little as 73% of those living in Russia.
This multi-ethnic composition echoes back to imperial past of both Tsarist Russia and the USSR. Slavic Soviet elites voiced concerns throughout the 1970s and 80s about what they called “the yellowing” of their country, and the fact that ethnic Russians made up just 50% of the population by 1990 played a part in President Yeltsin precipitating the break-up of the USSR.
The news that Russia’s notoriously low birth-rates have picked up in recent years is of some comfort to the Kremlin. Levels today are comparable to other European countries, and higher than some – for instance Italy or Hungary. This contrasts with 1999 when post-Soviet fertility rates hit rock bottom at just 1.16, at a time when 40% of Russia’s population earned less than the official poverty rate. By 2009, when the numbers in official poverty dropped to around 10%, the fertility rate rose to 1.54. The Health Ministry says that in September 2009 births outnumbered deaths for the first time since 1994.
It is Russia’s male death rates – not birth-rates – that mark her out from the rest of the developed world. Male life expectancy is only 59 – compared to 73 for Palestinian men. However, male life expectancy did rise by four years between 2005 and 2009.
This slight improvement is partly due to the steady emergence of a private healthcare industry with access to western drugs. Russians were poorly nourished in the shortage economy of the late 1980s and early 1990s when adverse demographic trends set in. Now supermarkets and the availability of imported food are playing their part in these incremental improvements.
Russia’s demographics are still bad, but the country is not ‘dying out’ just yet thanks to these positive signs that the population is at least starting to recover. And, as well as a likely reliance on migrants for decades to come, it is striking that the highest birth rates in the Federation are in the non-ethnic Russian republics of the North Caucasus and outer Siberia. The Russian military is concerned that by 2015 an estimated third of its conscripts may be of Muslim origin, many from the war-torn Caucasian regions they are expected to serve in. The decline in the Russia population in both the Far East and republics such as Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan will make it far harder for the Kremlin to dictate their future.
Will mass-migration modernise Russia?
What insider Gleb Pavlovsky has called “a sociologically obsessed Kremlin” is trying to discreetly fashion a more multi-cultural society. In April, Putin himself bluntly declared that “the door will always be open” for those that wanted to tie their future to Russia. In September the head of the Federal Migration Service said migrants were the key to improving the country’s demographic situation. This echoed another statement by Putin in April that Russia was aiming to make foreign workers “feel more at home in Russia”, as he further liberalised labour laws with Kazakhstan and Belarus.
Last year the Kremlin claimed that the number of Russian citizens increased for the first time in 15 years – albeit it by a rather measly 25,000 – thanks to 330,000 new citizenships being awarded (mostly to migrants).
But benefiting from migration involves more than just letting people in. Most migrants live in penury and often suffer harassment by skinheads. Transient and largely unprotected by labour laws, their presence in turn risks driving down the wages of other workers and prolonging the lives of otherwise defunct and uncompetitive Soviet factories.
Mass migration has also politicised elements of Russia’s working class. The ‘Movement Against Illegal Immigration’, the myriad skin-head gangs and neo-Nazi brotherhoods have mobilised the energies of the losers of Putinism – a de-industrialised underclass who desperately need economic modernisation, an enabling welfare state and a crackdown on corruption. Ethnic struggles have eclipsed class struggle on the streets.
Migrants may yet save the Russian economy from a demographic crunch. Yet if Putin’s plans do not include strengthening the rule of law, they could lead to other challenges to the Russian state, holding back the modernisation of the country’s creaking industry and emptying what it means to be a ‘Russian citizen.’
A shorter version of this article appeared in the November 2010 edition of Prospect.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
RUMPOLE SEASONAL RANT
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member.
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves,
no birds, --
No vember.
Thomas Hood
No comfortable feel in any member.
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves,
no birds, --
No vember.
Thomas Hood
Thursday, November 28, 2019
SOME THINGS WERE TRUE EVEN IF JOE MCCARTHY SAID THEM
March 12, 1951
When Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy called Columnist Drew Pearson a Communist tool (TIME, Jan. 8), he thought he was safe enough. As usual, he made his attack from the libelproof U.S. Senate floor. But last week litigious Columnist Pearson thought he had found a way around McCarthy's immunity, slipped a libel suit against him.
McCarthy, charged Pearson's lawyers, had made the same accusations in a mimeographed release to the press before he entered the Senate floor, was thus legally accountable to the extent of $350,000 damages. For good measure, Pearson demanded $250,000 for being "painfully grabbed by the neck and kicked in the groin.
Pearson was a Communist tool, and deserved to be grabbed by the neck and kicked in the groin.
Drew Pearson, baby, David Karr, Andrew Older: Wikipedia, read all about it!
THE CLASSIC AMERICAN WHISTLEBLOWER WAS A SOVIET AGENT FEEDING INFORMATION TO A SOVIET ASSET JOURNALIST
Drew Pearson, Robert Allen, David Karr, and others who worked closely with them, are the classic examples of Soviet asset journalists.
Walter Duranty at NYT was also a classic.
Sally J. Taylor, author of the critical Duranty biography Stalin's Apologist, argues that his reporting from the USSR was a key factor in U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 decision to grant official recognition to the Soviet Union....Conquest believed Duranty was being blackmailed over his sexual proclivities. Wikipedia
Walter Duranty at NYT was also a classic.
Sally J. Taylor, author of the critical Duranty biography Stalin's Apologist, argues that his reporting from the USSR was a key factor in U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 decision to grant official recognition to the Soviet Union....Conquest believed Duranty was being blackmailed over his sexual proclivities. Wikipedia
SOVIET ASSETS DREW PEARSON ROBERT ALLEN I F STONE DAVID KARR ANDREW OLDER
Robert Allen, Pearson's longtime partner, Wikipedia:
"In 1933, Allen worked as a Soviet agent (Sh/147) for $100 a month.[5] According to John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev in their 2009 book Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America,[2][6] this was legal for Allen to do, being prior to the passage of the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act, and his motivation is unknown.
In the early forties he co-wrote the newspaper strip Hap Hopper with Drew Pearson. The strip was drawn by Jack Sparling.[7]
He served on General Patton's staff in World War II.
Why not gather these remarks below in one place, out of context though they are. One can read the entire posts at one's leisure.
DK on Pearson:
"...I have been rereading one of my favorite books, the diaries of Drew Pearson, Anderson’s onetime boss and later collaborator, who wrote a daily column, The Washington Merry-Go-Round, from 1932 to his death in 1969. Forgotten today, Pearson, whom I have already quoted with respect to Herbert Hoover, was one of the most extraordinary journalists in American history—a type whom we desperately need, but do not have, today....Pearson’s diary and the books he wrote with his original collaborator Robert Allen (mainly in the 1930s) are extraordinary today because of the intense interest they take in the lives and careers of public officials." DK
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Drew Pearson, the sequel
"In 2006, I did a long piece here about one of my favorite books, the diaries of newspaper columnist Drew Pearson from 1949 through 1959. Pearson was probably the single most famous and influential journalist of the middle third of the twentieth century. He and his one time partner, Robert Allen, created a sensation in 1932 with their anonymous book, The Washington Merry-Go-Round, which combined a scathing portrayal of the federal government in general and the Hoover administration in particular with a great deal of high-level Washington gossip. (Pearson at the time was related by marriage to the Patterson family, which owned the Washington Post.).........DK
Friday, June 07, 2013
Pearson and Assange
"Nearly eight years ago, I wrote a post on the career of Drew Pearson, the muckraker who with his collaborators Robert Allen and Jack Anderson infuriated Administrations from Roosevelt to Nixon, and who successfully defended all but one of many dozens of libel suits along the way. I concluded that post with a lament that there was no one remotely like Pearson writing today, either for newspapers (he was a syndicated columnist) or in the blogosphere. Last weekend I saw We Steal Secrets, a very well-balanced documentary about Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, and Wikileaks, and I left the theater thinking about the similarities and differences between Assange and Pearson, and between Pearson's time and ours
Neither Pearson nor Assange had, or have, any respect for government serecy regulations per se. Pearson published lots of classified information and was repeatedly investigated for doing so. ......DK
Sunday, October 16, 2005
"Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein became national figures in 1972-3 by exposing the secrets of the Nixon Administration—secrets willingly leaked to them by lower-level figures in the Nixon campaign, and confirmed, as we know, by Mark Felt. They treated the higher officials of the Nixon Administration as officials should be treated—as adversaries. “Governments,” the late I. F. Stone liked to remark, “are run by liars,” and while that may be a slight exaggeration, the demands of governing almost always tempt those in charge to stretch, or deny, the truth. That, as Woodward and Bernstein eventually helped to prove, was what the Nixon Administration was doing....
Instead of the intrepid investigator cultivating low-level sources to expose the higher-ups—like Drew Pearson, whose diaries from the years 1946-59 should be required reading for every aspiring journalist..." DK
Saturday, September 17, 2005
.......Like the SDS inside universities 35 years ago, the Administration is too committed to its goals to worry about their impact. George W. Bush differs in many ways from Herbert Hoover, but they have some things in common--as revealed by Drew Pearson and Robert Allen in the midst of the Depression in the book that made them famous, The Washington Merry-Go-Round.
Hoover, the two men wrote in 1931, had built up a reputation as a miracle-worker in business and government before becoming President, and had apparently come to believe it. As a result, he routinely exaggerated the achievements of his Administration, especially in areas like cutting expenditures and keeping the depression-era deficit low, by large amounts-confident that the press and public would not notice the truth. In those days of a more adversarial press, this brought him to grief.
How did Hoover get this way? To understand "why he does not get along with people, and why he has surrounded himself with yes-men," they argued, one must look to his earlier career. "All of that period of his life during which a man's character and mental process are molded was spent far from the field of politics in isolated parts of the world. Months and years spent on the edge of the Australian desert or in the interior of China rob any man of that contact with his fellowmen so essential if he is to inspire leadership. Especially true is this when the people with whom he is surrounded on the edge of that desert or in the interior of China remain there subject to his whim and pleasure.
"It was in these circumstances that Herbert Hoover developed the habits of autocracy which have so handicapped him in the White House. Because he had the power to command, he never developed the power to lead."
And here is their comment about Hoover's response to the Depression.
"It in the long and tragic travail of the economic depression, the most tragic thing was the President's fear of admitting that a great disaster had befallen the country. For months, while gloom, unemployment, and deflation settled on the land, he refused to admit their reality or do anything fundamental about the situation. His approach to the problem was wholly that of the boomer [sic], the bull-market operator, concerned only with his own political interests and willing to resort to any device or misrepresentation to further them.
"Facts, statistics, plan organization--there have been none, and when proposed by others have been rejected and stifled, secretly when possible, openly when that was impossible.
"One policy alone has dominated his course: not to do or say anything that would reveal the truth about the great catastrophe. Suppression and inaction have been his unshaken role."
No further comment, I think, is necessary.....DK
Saturday, February 26, 2011
"....I cannot resist one more story from Caro's book. In early 1956, Johnson was pushing hard for a bill to deregulate the price of natural gas--a bill worth tens of millions of dollars to George and Herman Brown and other Texas oil men. Liberals, including the columnist Drew Pearson, were fighting the bill hard....DK
Friday, July 04, 2014
"....Of the two eras, sad to say, the Gilded Age looks much more similar to this one than the New Deal era. The Nine Old Men, as Drew Pearson and Robert Allen named them, were fighting a rear-guard action against progress....DK
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