What's the deal with Ukraine?

I admit it, I don't understand what's going down in Ukraine.

A few observations:

First, this was not a 'democratic' revolution.  The previous government, irretrievably corrupt as it was, nonetheless was legally elected.  It was overthrown by violence.

Who are the good guys?  Well they're not going to be the ones supported by the EUSSR, the Neocons, McStain (but I repeat myself) and George Soros. And the chief agent provocateur Assistant Sec. of State Victoria Nuland .....who's married to war-mongering chicken hawk Robert Kagan, founding member of PNAC, you know, the people who dreamt up the 9/11 false flag.  You couldn't make this shit up.  Are these people in every fucking nook and cranny?

But wait. The new guys number among their ranks militants who agree with those who sided with the Germans in WW II, who wave dodgy flags and who've frightened the shit out of the local Jewish community. The whole ethos of the new government is ultra-nationalistic, anti-Russian, pro-EUSSR and anti-Jewish. 

A heady brew indeed.

My own belief is that the insurrection is being driven and financed by western interests with the aim of weakening Russia and surrounding that country even more effectively.  A Ukraine, even a truncated one that was heavily anti-Russian, would fit that particular bill very nicely.  My guess - and it's only a guess -  is that they feel they can control the  street rowdies once they've fulfilled their role as cannon fodder for the regime change project.

Maybe.  But what I do know though is that this Western mischief and meddling could result in an international crisis and/or civil war that would make events in Syria look like a walk in the park. The level of irresponsibility displayed, given the potentially catastrophic outcome, is simply criminal. Criminal.  The cost to Ukraine, a country with the Holodomor still a living memory for some people, could be absolutely catastrophic.

But hey, who gives a damn about that. eh?

Jews and Parsis, contrast and compare

It’s interesting to compare Jews with the Parsis (Parsees) of India.  In fact I’m quite familiar with both groups, although with the latter it’s mainly, but not exclusively, by way of my dealings with other Indians.

§  They’re both cognitive elites in their host countries,  demonstrating vastly disproportionate success in business, politics and academia.  Jews we all know about, but Parsis, especially in India, have been stunningly successful and prominent especially given their relatively tiny numbers

§  Generally speaking they both came to their high status gradually and without the use of force

§  Both have been ‘exiled’ from their ancient traditional homelands (Iran for Parsis, Israel for Jews) and have been living in their host countries for many hundreds of years

§  They are two of the oldest continuing religions

§  Both demonstrate strong in-group mentality especially in terms of  endogamy (marrying within the group). This is strong enough to  engender various diseases unique to their groups

§  They have little or no interest in gaining converts to their religion

A lot of similarities, aren’t there?  So are there differences in how they’re perceived by their host populations?

Here’s a personal anecdote about the Parsis.  Several years ago I met a number of  Indians on business. I was surprised that they  seemed to defer to one guy even though he wasn’t the ‘boss’ and was certainly younger than the others.  I raised this later and by way of explanation was simply told ‘he’s a Parsi’.  Inquiring further I  learned that Indians generally hold the Parsis in the highest possible levels of esteem and indeed affection.   The others in his team  agreed when asked individually later.

My own subsequent inquiries revealed that this affection stems from their astonishing levels of philanthropy, honest dealings and a respect for the common good. There is an Indian saying "Parsi thy name is Charity".   In many respects they’re like the Quakers.   “Parsis are incredibly charitable, preferring to spread around their wealth Moreover, no one sees them as doing so without any real care for others -- i.e., just being charitable to gain approval or to keep the would-be rioters content. All observers seem to agree that it's out of a sense of duty and empathy.”

At the time of the Raj the British held similar views, seeing them as uniquely honest, trustworthy, honourable generous with their time and money . I remember when working on a project with the Inland Revenue in England being told by a guy that a Parsi family he knew agonised over claiming some form of social welfare because they felt they had not as yet ‘paid enough into society’. Scandals in Parsi-owned commercial enterprises are as rare as hens’ teeth and, in India’s multi-ethnic and constantly feuding society the only ethnic conflict they were ever involved in was with the Religion Of Peace.  And if the Muslims aren’t fighting you, you must be doing something wrong.

I love and derive great amusement from euphemisms. Take for instance ‘mixed reaction’, as in ‘there was a mixed reaction within the black community to  the Rodney King verdict’.  Another great one is ‘blip’, as in ‘there was a blip in Anglo-German relations during the early 1940s’. And it’s fair to say there have been quite a few mixed reactions to Jews and blips in their relationships with their host countries over the centuries in marked contrast to the Parsis.

Strange, isn’t it?  And they’re like one another in so many ways…..

Mixed news for the Religion Of Peace

Sometimes, in a quiet moment, maybe on a sunny afternoon in a Chateau Savant drawing room I blissfully dream of a solution to so many of the world's problems: That all adherents of the Religion Of Peace would, now that it's technically possible, decamp to Mars.  Think of the benefits.  Violence and internecine strife on earth would drop by about 90%, we in the West would not walk in fear of saying or doing something that would activate the hives of lunatics that dwell among us. And it'd be great for them as well.  They wouldn't have to deal with kuffars any more, they could behead and stone each other to death to their hearts' content.  And take a look at the surface of Mars....just like their beloved Arabian desert, whence the Paedophile 'Prophet' first  emerged.

Alas, it is not to be.  After more than 500 people from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries were said to have signed up for a spot on the Mars One mission a fatwa was issued by Gulf imams that ruled it un-Islamic to promote or be involved in a one-way trip to the Red Planet. 

Ah well, I can dream....

Better news from Denmark though, where the Danes are getting rightly pissed off with their unwelcome guests and their barbarous ways.   A new law has come into effect which bans the cruel practice of kosher slaughter, where the unfortunate animal is slowly bled to death while fully conscious.  Right on cue a burst of outrage followed.....their 'religious rights' were being infringed.  I'm sure a Christian in Saudi Arabia would understand what they mean.  And of course the Jews got into the act, decrying the law as, you've guessed it, anti-Semitic.  I imagine in due course the Hitler and the Holocau$t will get another airing.   Why miss an opportunity?  

Look, I have one message for all of these guys: If you don't like the laws of the civilised country you're roosting in, fuck off to a country with laws you like.  QED.

The Dawn of the Dumb

The minute I looked at this lady (or maybe it's a man?) I said to myself  'she - or he - is a brilliant scientist or else something like a, well, say a Federal Judge'.  And dammit I was right.  Judge Arenda Wright Allen is indeed a Federal Judge.....for the Eastern District of Virginia. The United States Senate confirmed her nomination on May 11, 2011 by a resounding 96–0 vote. Wow, with a vote like that she must be uniquely talented, a latter day Oliver Wendell Holmes.  And get this, she also qualified from Kutztown University, which is acknowledged to be the finest university in all of........ Kutztown.

Now even I, a humble Paddy secluded in a remote part of a remote island, know that all American legislation is based on the US Constitution.  If a proposed law is found to be in breach of that Constitution the law must be repealed, and can only be implemented by way of a Constitutional Amendment, of which I could cite at least five off the top of my head.  In the light of this you'd imagine that a Federal Judge, appointed by the Senate with a virtually unanimous viote, would be familiar with such basic essentials.  Well, we're talking about Obummer's Amerika here, where AA and 'equality' trump everything else.  And on cue, this Federal Judge, in the course of a key judgement overturning the will of the Virginian people, confused the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence.

The Dawn of the Dumb

One of my special favourites is Sherri Shepherd, co-host of ABC's The View, an all-woman discussion show 'where each co-host has her own field of expertise'.  The kind of show in other words to enrich and broaden the minds of American housewives.  Now I'm not sure of Sherri’s particular area of expertise, although she claims to be a fundamentalist Christian. However, she has some challenges in relation to Christianity's chronology, if nothing else. Astoundingly she believes that Christians were there before Christ (sic)..... at the time of Classical Greece. How does she know this? Because, and I quote, “the Greeks had Christians 'cause they threw 'em to the lions."

However, Sherri then went on to surpass herself. Presumably joking, Whoopi Goldberg asked her if she thought the world was flat. Sherri said she didn’t know, and it was none of her business. Pressed as to whether this was the explanation she’d give her kids, she blustered along the lines of ‘let them find out themselves’.

I know you think I'm joking. If you really do, just check out this link  where you’ll see and hear her in all her gory glory.

The Dawn of the Dumb

Or what about The Monster From The Louisiana Swamp, a beastly waddling 20 stone mountain of cellulite who was plucked from an obscure local juju medicine practice in the bayou to become America's top medico?  Or Representative Hank Johnson, who, as a Congressman legislates for 300 million Americans, and who thinks the island of Guam might tip over on its side if too many more people settle there.

The Dawn of the Dumb

This dumbing down is no accident.  I've referred to it many times.  A very good book on it is The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Iserby.  "It connects educators, social engineers, planners, government grants, federal and state agencies, billion-dollar foundations, think tanks, universities, research projects, policy organizations, etc., showing how they have worked together to advance an agenda that will change America from a free republic to a socialist state."  

But Socialism is not the goal.   The goal is to have the majority smart enough for routine tasks in service of their masters but too dumb to organise resistance. Bertrand Russell put it well "a revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organised insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."

The Dawn of the Dumb

The continuing decline in education standards

The continuing decline in education standards causes me grief. In particular those in Ireland where the swamping of the system by unteachable Africans is becoming acute. But it's almost everywhere. The Muslim countries, never exactly exemplars in the field, have been particularly bad, and this week hit a new low. Or should that be high?

At the prestigious Baghdad Jihadi College, the Department of Suicide Bombing got the new term off to a bang when the instructor, perhaps inspired by a dozen cartoons, accidentally detonated his explosive belt, sending himself and 21 of his avid students into the appreciative arms of Allah.

A case of life imitating art.

In honour of Black Histry Mumf

This site constantly ridicules the very  idea of  Black History Month, especially the claims made for black scientists.  Well, I have news for the bigots, to whom I present William Kamkwamba.
His breakthrough invention has lead to appearances on CNN, BBC, CNBC and even a fawning interview with Jon Stewart on the Today Show. He’s won a major book deal as the protagonist of ‘The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind” and been feted by climate change campaigners like Al Gore and business leaders the world over.

According to the BBC he’s even been invited to the “prestigious Technology Entertainment Design conference in Arusha, Tanzania”. (stop laughing at the back please!) They add “Mr Kamkwamba - who has been flown to conferences around the globe to recount his life-story - has the world at his feet” . One of the comments on the BBC (or was it CNN?) blog claimed ‘conclusive proof at last that intelligence has no racial component’.

So now!  Check his dramatic story out on this post.

The Monomorium analogy

A commentator raises the following question:

'But, the white race is failing. And, if its superiority is tied directly to genetics, then how do you explain today's Western World fiasco? How does one explain our rulers who are systematically destroying our societies before our very eyes?'

A good question.  Perhaps Richard Dawkins can offer an explanation from a somewhat unlikely source.

My favourite character in Wilson’s The Insect Societies is Monomorium santschii. This species, over evolutionary time, has lost its worker caste altogether. The host workers do everything for their parasites, even the most terrible task of all. At the behest of the invading parasite queen, they actually perform the deed of murdering their own mother. The usurper doesn't need to use her jaws. She uses mind-control. How she does it is a mystery; she probably employs a chemical, for ant nervous systems-are generally highly attuned to them.

If her weapon is indeed chemical, then it is as insidious a drug as any known to science. For think what it accomplishes. It floods the brain of the worker ant, grabs the reins of her muscles, woos her from deeply ingrained duties and turns her against her own mother. For ants, matricide is an act of special genetic madness and formidable indeed must be the drug that drives them to it. In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal’s behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is benefiting. Selfish Gene, p. 252 (Dawkins is here referring to the founder of sociobiology, Edward Wilson):

Classical Chinese military theory holds that the perfect war is getting your enemy to commit suicide voluntarily.  Our problems have been caused by a human version of Monomorium santschii which has crept into our countries and poisoned the minds of our people to the extent that we're now prepared to metaphorically kill our own mothers. And our children, through the abortion 'solution' that's now been made so cool and trendy by the same ants.