Western liberals hate it when it's pointed out that their globalist policies create poverty in the developed nations by putting the Western workforce in direct competition with the billions of poverty-stricken workers of the Third World: from Bangladeshi garment-industry workers employed in collapsible factories for pennies and hour, to Chinese electronics assemblers employed in factories with anti-suicide nets, and Indian IT technicians earning in a year what a similarly qualified American or European might earn in a month.
So what to do?
Raise Western wages by fiat. Legislate a higher minimum wage.* Easy, hey! And sure to win the hearts and minds of every economically illiterate voter, which is to say most people.
What, after all, could go wrong in ordering greedy, fat-cat employers like Donald Trump to pay their workers more?
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Monday, October 3, 2016
Misunderstanding Evolution, Or Evolutionary Theorists May Be Wrong, But Fred Reed Is Wronger
Fred Reed has a gift for a witty turn of phrase that has earned
him a respected place among Internet essayists. Verbal facility and comprehension whereof one speaks are not, however, necessarily related as Fred has amply demonstrates in a recent contribution to the Unz Review entitled Darwin Unhinged:The Bugs in Evolution.
Let me count some of the ways in which Fred misunderstands the theory of organic evolution.
Let me count some of the ways in which Fred misunderstands the theory of organic evolution.
(1) Fred begins his attack on the theory of evolution by citing a dead Polish expert on typhus who held that scientists in any field inevitably develop a “thought
collective.” In other words, Fred suggests, evolutionists are dopes incapable of thinking for themselves.
Trikileaks: Assange The Serial Disappointer, Disappoints Again
Assange: I Will Bring Hillary Down Before The Debate Stage On September 26th.
"October Surprise" Is Back - Wikileaks' Assange Confirms Tuesday Video Appearance
Didn't happen did it.
Then there was:
But Tuesday came and no surprise.
No surprise.
Friday, September 30, 2016
Why the FBI Let Hillary Go Free
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
9/11 Myths Exposed By Firefighters, Architects & Engineers
Nine-Eleven, the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers and the attack on the Pentagon, which occurred on September 11, 2001, changed the course of world history.
It gave rise directly to US-led wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, which together, resulted in 370,000 battlefield deaths, 6,800 of the victims being US soldiers. Including all disability claims, US forces suffered almost one million casualties.
The war on Iraq led directly to the emergence of ISIS that, with its war-spawned jihadi predecessors, has killed or expelled virtually the whole of Iraq's 1.5 million Christians.
It gave rise directly to US-led wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, which together, resulted in 370,000 battlefield deaths, 6,800 of the victims being US soldiers. Including all disability claims, US forces suffered almost one million casualties.
The war on Iraq led directly to the emergence of ISIS that, with its war-spawned jihadi predecessors, has killed or expelled virtually the whole of Iraq's 1.5 million Christians.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
PC Language Control and the Rise of the Third Reich
Acknowledgments to What Really Happened.
Note:
Hitler's Brown Shirt enforcers of Nazi ideology, were, so this commentator argues, the counterpart of today's enforcers of political correctness, directing hate and violence at those who fail to conform to the state orthodoxy.
The Brown Shirts were financed with aid from the Union Bank Corporation of the United States. Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of Presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush, respectively, was a director of the Union Bank Corp. The bank was shut down during the war under the US Trading With the Enemy Act.
Saturday, September 24, 2016
TTT: TED Talk Twaddle
Ted Talks aim, it seems, to provide some incredibly deep novel insight about the world in a presentation of scintillating wit and crystalline clarity, that can be assimilated by anyone with even the most modest intellectual aspirations and only ten or fifteen minutes to spare.
In fact, incredibly deep and novel insights, or novel insights of any kind at all, tend to be rather few and far between. Moreover, the most important novel insights are often the product of highly specialized research in arcane fields such as quantum mechanics, neurophysiology or hominid paleontology in Northwest China, topics that are not immediately accessible to the casual Web browser. Thus, TED Talks tend to fall short of expectation. Indeed, some amount to nothing more than hifalutin bunk, while others make claims that go far beyond, or which contradict, the evidence.
In fact, incredibly deep and novel insights, or novel insights of any kind at all, tend to be rather few and far between. Moreover, the most important novel insights are often the product of highly specialized research in arcane fields such as quantum mechanics, neurophysiology or hominid paleontology in Northwest China, topics that are not immediately accessible to the casual Web browser. Thus, TED Talks tend to fall short of expectation. Indeed, some amount to nothing more than hifalutin bunk, while others make claims that go far beyond, or which contradict, the evidence.
Readers Rave over Hillary's Latest Book
WND Reviews the reviews of Hillary's latest book co-ghosted with Tim Kaine, Stronger Together. Here's one of the gentler ones:
I was going to read this book … I really was. But just as I got started, I found myself under sniper fire, passed out, and fell and hit my head. After that I got double vision and had to wear glasses that were so damn thick I couldn’t even see to read. As if that wasn’t enough, I then had an allergic reaction to something and started coughing so hard I spit out what looked like a couple of lizard’s eyeballs, my limbs locked up, and I passed out and fell down again, waking up only to find out I had been diagnosed with pneumonia 2 days earlier. Somehow I managed to power through it all, but it’s a good thing I was able to make a small fortune on this random small trade in the commodities market (cattle futures or some such thing) and then, miracle of all miracles, a few banks offered me a few million to just talk to their employees for a few minutes – and all that really helped out because I swear I was dead broke and couldn’t figure out how I was gonna come up with the 6 bucks to pay for this book, let alone pay the $1,500 for my health insurance this month. I still want to read it, but, honestly, what difference at this point does it make? I hear it sucks anyway.
And a couple of the shorter reviews:
on September 24, 2016
Just reading a couple pages cured my constipation.
on September 16, 2016
My only disappointment with this book is that it ended before Batman showed up to haul her to jail.
on September 23, 2016
I was going to give this book an unfavorable review but I fear for my life.
on September 25, 2016
Very sophisticated social political work! I now understand what led to the creation of the
Third Reich and it's...... OOPS!!! Sorry. I thought I was giving a review on Mein Kampf. Awkward!
Hundreds more great reviews over at Amazon.com, though they're disappearing fast. As one reviewer notes: "Our lovely new President knows to delete Amazon reviews as well."
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
Tereson May
The parliaments and people mean very little now in Europe – as little as in Russia. The British people voted for Brexit. Fine! So did it happen? Not at all. The new unelected government of Theresa May just pushed the decision far away into the heap of not-very-urgent business correspondence next to requesting assignment of a budget to a Zoo. Maybe she will deliver it to Brussels in a year or two. Or people will forget about that vote.To understand the title of this piece, you have to know that in Britain, the second vowel in the name Teresa is pronounced as the 'ea' in treason.
Israel Shamir: Democracy's Last Chance
As we pointed out a few weeks ago, Britain's notable female rulers from Boadicea to Good Queen Bess, and Margaret Thatcher have been pretty much like the majority of their male counterparts — but with balls.
How the West destroys its own
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| Gin Lane, London by William Hogarth. |
Originally posted March 12, 2012: Great cities have always consumed population. In times past, infectious diseases spread by rats and polluted water, respiratory diseases due to air pollution, and the absence of space to grow food to avert starvation during times of unemployment, all reduced the life expectancy and fertility of urban populations relative to that of country dwellers.
Today, cities are healthier places to live, but they still impose a severe restraint on human reproductive success due to the high cost of urban living, particularly the costs of housing and transportation.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Do You Really Have a Mind?
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it "I refute it thus."
James Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
The world is composed of matter: wind, water, and hard things like rocks that can be kicked by philosophers, whereas our awareness of the world seems to be of an altogether different character. Consciouslness, except our own, cannot be seen, heard, tasted, touched or smelled or otherwise directly shared, but can only be intimated by words, the meanings of which we learn ostensively, by reference to things that can be observed by both speaker and hearer.
The challenge of explaining consciousness has naturally attracted the attention of philosophers who seem almost as puzzled by the problem as anyone else. A solution that some philosophers have adopted is to assume that consciousness is inherent in all matter, not just brains, a theory called panpsychism.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
9/11: Living With Lies
9/11 has provided many people with an interesting intellectual puzzle, the solution to which, in outline at least, is fairly obvious, but which will never be publicly acknowledged short of a coup d'état in Washington, DC.
The reason the truth cannot otherwise be acknowledged is obvious: many people were involved in 9/11, which means that public recognition of the truth would necessitate mass trials and executions of members of both Democratic and Republican Party leadership, plus many prominent persons within the security apparatus. Almost certainly, corporate entities, their directors, and members of their technical staffs would also be implicated, together with security services and corporate entities of several other countries.
The reason the truth cannot otherwise be acknowledged is obvious: many people were involved in 9/11, which means that public recognition of the truth would necessitate mass trials and executions of members of both Democratic and Republican Party leadership, plus many prominent persons within the security apparatus. Almost certainly, corporate entities, their directors, and members of their technical staffs would also be implicated, together with security services and corporate entities of several other countries.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Ancient Greek Science: Or How Not to Report an Experiment
There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.
Aristotle: Meteorology, Book IIFirst Posted October 15, 2012: It has been suggested that this is an example of Aristotle giving experimental proof of desalination by osmosis. In fact, it is an example of why science in ancient Greece never took off. Moreover, if the procedure Aristotle described had worked, it would have been an example not of osmosis but of reverse osmosis, whereby water from a salty solution is forced through a semipermeable membrane that prevents the passage of salts. But as described, the procedure would not have worked because the walls of a vessel of wax will not serve as a semipermeable membrane. Moreover, unless the vessel was immersed at depth, something Aristotle does not mention, there would have been no pressure gradient to drive the process.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Trump's Basket of Proud Deplorables
When, during the First World War, a British Expeditionary Force crossed the English Channel to fight alongside the French army in the defense of France, the German Kaiser dismissed it as a "contemptible little army".
The name stuck, and those members of the British force who lived to see Germany defeated, were ever after proud to call themselves "The Old Contemptibles."
The name stuck, and those members of the British force who lived to see Germany defeated, were ever after proud to call themselves "The Old Contemptibles."
Monday, September 12, 2016
Hillary Not Bad But Mad?
Hillary Clinton has what appear to be symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
In an article at Psych Central by Margarita Tartakovsky entitled What You Need to Know About Psychosis in Parkinson’s Disease, we are told that “Psychosis in Parkinson’s disease is very common.” And then, quoting Dr. James Beck, Director of research programs at the Parkinson's Disease Foundation:
In an article at Psych Central by Margarita Tartakovsky entitled What You Need to Know About Psychosis in Parkinson’s Disease, we are told that “Psychosis in Parkinson’s disease is very common.” And then, quoting Dr. James Beck, Director of research programs at the Parkinson's Disease Foundation:
In fact, psychosis may affect 1 in 5 Parkinson’s patients... And as many as 2 out of 3 patients may experience minor symptoms, “such as non-bothersome illusions. (An example is “seeing something in the corner of your eye that may not be there, [such as] a bug in the sink for an instant.”)
Patients primarily experience visual hallucinations ... A smaller number of patients – 10 to 20 percent – experience auditory hallucinations, he said.
Friday, September 9, 2016
An Exclusive Interview With Jesus Christ
We all know what Jesus thought about major social issues of his own days on Earth, matters such as the stoning of adulteresses, the payment of taxes to Rome, how to respond when smitten on the cheek, and so forth. But there are many moral questions that we have to decide today on which Jesus's position is not immediately obvious.
Fortunately, Jesus, as everyone who has read the gospel accounts of his life knows, taught his followers to regard God as a personal god to whom they could speak as they would speak to a loving father. It was in this spirit, therefore, that we invited Jesus to join us on this blog for an exclusive interview via Skype*, a request that Jesus, now a member of the Holy Trinity, and thus the voice of God, very graciously agreed to.
Without further ado, then, here is our conversation.
Fortunately, Jesus, as everyone who has read the gospel accounts of his life knows, taught his followers to regard God as a personal god to whom they could speak as they would speak to a loving father. It was in this spirit, therefore, that we invited Jesus to join us on this blog for an exclusive interview via Skype*, a request that Jesus, now a member of the Holy Trinity, and thus the voice of God, very graciously agreed to.
Without further ado, then, here is our conversation.
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