Wednesday, March 27, 2002
From Metro - 27 March 2002 ( pg. 17 )
‘Serial litigant’ wins £30,000 by David Fisher
A RACE relations worker described as a ’serial litigant’ is to receive up to £30,000 compensation after she won a racism case against an equal rights group.
Natasha Sivanandan, 48, took Hackney Action for Racial Equality to a tribunal after it [...]
The slyer virus: The West’s anti-westernism by Mark Steyn
“The ground war in Afghanistan hotted up yesterday when the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of Taleban zealots by proving the non-existence of God.
Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade, or ‘Black Berets’, will be parachuted into the combat zones [...]
“Rejection massively reduces IQ
Rejection can dramatically reduce a person’s IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research.
“It’s been known for a long time that rejected kids tend to be more violent and aggressive,” says Roy Baumeister of the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who led the [...]
Who decides what you read? Your natural response should be, “Why, I do — of course.” In reality what you read — and hear, and view — for the most part undergoes a highly engineered process of filtering, editing and packaging before it reaches your consciousness. Innumerable decisions are made along the way that affect [...]
COUNTERING TERRORISM: THE ISRAELI RESPONSE TO THE 1972 MUNICH OLYMPIC MASSACRE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT COVERT ACTION TEAMS
by Alexander B. Calahan
“unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without any need for any official ban” by a “general tacit agreement that it wouldn’t do to mention that particular fact.”
Orwell quoted in Inconvenient Facts by Aryeh Neier
“South African Police Service figures indicate that in 1998 three to four men out of every 1 000 in South Africa are recorded by the police as having raped a woman or young girl…According to figures, 25 578 sexual crimes were committed against children in 2000. ”
News 24, South Africa
Assuming there are 20 million men [...]
“Copyright was invented by and for early capitalism, and its importance to that system has grown ever since. To oppose copyright is to oppose capitalism. Thus, Marxism is a natural starting point when challenging copyright. Marx’s concept of a ‘general intellect’, suggesting that at some point a collective learning process will surpass physical labour as [...]
“They will be adept at handling distraught relatives in a racially sensitive murder and building up links with black communities where the elders are growing worried about the spiralling number of murders.” The Times, 11 March 2002.
The elders? The nobel savage myth lives on. Tribal elders may get restless in Matebeleland, but there are no [...]