IQism: Or Psychologists Pedaling Bunk

For the general public, the trouble with psychology is that it appropriates common concepts and redefines them in accordance with what it can measure.  The result is that the public is taken for a dangerous ride.

Thus, when University of Toronto psychology professor, Jordan Peterson, tells his students that if they "don't buy IQ research" they might as well throw out the rest of psychology because IQ research is the best thing psychology has to offer, he is (a) bullying his students, warning them, in effect, that there is no place for them in psychology unless they buckle under and accept the psychologist's definition of intelligence, and (b) redefining intelligence as what psychological research says it is.

"The Strange Death of Europe" by Douglas Murray: A Review

The Irish Savant

From Amazon:

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive change as a society. This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places which cannot accept them.

I just finished reading Murray's book and that summary is, for Amazon, pretty fair.

The author traces in great detail and with increasing horror the stunning scale and speed of the demographic and social transformation besetting Europe. He rips into politicians and the media for their duplicitous role in this transformation. He challenges 'liberals' and feminists on their inherently nonsensical and hypocritical support for immigrants who bring their illiberal and anti-feminine practises with them. He devotes a full chapter to demolishing political correctness, its bogus rationalisations, intolerance and falsification of history, and cleverly shows how these pathologies lead to authorities turning a blind eye to multiple instances of Muslim child-abuse. He traces PC corruption from the highest levels of national Government to local government, the police, courts and social services agencies. I particularly like the way he demolishes, first, the fallacy that Britain 'has always been a nation of immigrants' and second the idea that we need immigrants because European women aren't having enough children, identifying more child-friendly social and economic policies and not more Muslim head-choppers as the solution.

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Cecil Rhodes, World War I, and Why History Is Bunk

Of the many myths that befog the modern political mind, none is so corrupting of the understanding or so incongruent with historical fact as the notion that the wealthy and the powerful do not conspire.

They do.

They conspire continually, habitually, effectively, diabolically and on a scale that beggars the imagination. To deny this conspiracy fact is to deny both overwhelming empirical evidence and elementary reason.

Nevertheless, for the astute observer of the ‘Great Game’ of politics, it is an unending source of wonderment to stumble across ever more astounding examples of the monstrous machinations of which wealthy and powerful elites are capable. Indeed, it is precisely here that authors Docherty and Macgregor enter the fray and threaten to take our breath away entirely.

Thus, the official, canonized history of the origins of the First World War, so they tell us, is one long, unmitigated lie from start to finish. Even more to the conspiratorial point is the authors’ thesis that – and to paraphrase a later Churchill who figures prominently in this earlier story – never were so many murdered, so needlessly, for the ambitions and profit of so few.

In demolishing the many shibboleths surrounding the origins of the ‘Great War’ (including ‘German responsibility’, ‘British peace efforts‘, ‘Belgian neutrality’ and the ‘inevitability’ of the war), Docherty and Macgregor point the finger at what they argue is the real source of the conflict: a more or less secret cabal of British imperialists whose entire political existence for a decade and a half was dedicated to the fashioning of a European war in aid of destroying the British Empire’s newly emerging commercial, industrial and military competitor, Germany.

In short, far from “sleepwalking into a global tragedy, the unsuspecting world”, Docherty and Macgregor contend, “was ambushed by a secret cabal of warmongers” originating not in Berlin, but “in London”.

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Did the Russian Navy Save the USS Liberty

Here is a fascinating wrinkle on the 50-year-old story of the US-Government-authorized attempt by Israel to sink the US Navy's communications vessel, the USS Liberty in the Eastern Mediterranean, the crime "to be blamed on Egypt and exploited to permit the bombing of Cairo and the entry of the United States into the war on Israel’s side." It was, so this report indicates, only due to the intervention of the Russian Navy that President Johnson's plan to sink a US naval vessel with all hands, failed.

"USS Liberty: Operation Cyanide: Russians to the rescue

In England, the Traitors Blair, Cameron and May Have Won. The Destruction of the English Nation Is Now Assured

Two headlines confirm the disaster:

1. Nearly three in 10 babies have foreign-born mothers, as figures show level hitting another record

2. Five more years of EU migration: Cabinet Remainers' victory after agreeing 'soft-landing' transition period that will delay UK getting its borders back

In five years the immigrant vote will turn the tide. England, the nation that created the modern world, will be forced back into the anti-democratic EU, and within 30 years, the English will be a minority in their own homes. Within only five or ten years, English children will be a minority among elementary school entrants as they already are in London, Birmingham and other urban areas.

The English, silenced by the politically correct state, are being destroyed as a racial and cultural entity, victims of a genocide* the name of which the Jewish-Holocaust-obsessed media will not speak.

Here's an idea for the advocates of diversity

A Pledge of Allegiance for Migrants to the West

“I, (full name), hereby accepting citizenship of X, voluntarily and consciously swear an oath to observe the Constitution and laws of X; to fulfill the duties of a citizen of X for the benefit of the state and society; to protect the freedom and independence of X; to be faithful to X, and to respect its culture, history and traditions.”

Where X = The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, etc.

Or do the advocates of diversity and mass migration hate the constitutional and legal foundations of Western civilization, the rights and freedoms of the citizens of Western nations, and do they hold in contempt those who fulfill the duty of citizens of Western nations to protect the freedom and independence of the Western nations and respect the history and traditions of those nations?

Is the Cartoon Now the Only Valid Form of Art?

The astonish thing about renaissance art is its photographic realism. Prior to photography, such realism made the works of Leonardo, Michael Angelo, Caravaggio and their peers and successors of great value. But with the advent of photography, realism in art ceased to be much appreciated. As a consequence, artists sought to depict what was surreal, abstract or entirely absurd, as for example the works of Picasso or Jackson Pollock, the latter consisting of paint merely thrown at a canvas.

Yet beside novelty, such art is of dubious value. What information does it provide? What pleasure does it give? To most people, very little it would seem.

Cartoons, however, are an exception, providing a medium for the most brilliant humor. The cartoon may thus, perhaps, be regarded as the only valid form of modern art.

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Trendy Trudeau's Spendthrift Canada Facing Financial Apocalypse

In response to the financial crisis of 2008, governments opted to save the banks, which they did by printing money, trillions of it, and lending it to the banks for free or thereabouts. The banks promptly lent out the free cash real cheap. Canadians responded rationally — borrowing at below inflation and investing in real assets, chiefly houses.

Source: Bloomberg — Canada's Housing Bubble Will Burst

The result, massive house price inflation that only incited further investment in housing, until even with dirt cheap money, people were spending more on debt service than ever before.

Not to worry. Short of cash? Borrow some more.

But now central banks have begun thinking it's time to get interest rates back to “normal.”

But how?

Trump's call to arms against the enemy within

The Irish Savant, July 12, 2016: I didn't comment on Trump's amazing Warsaw speech until I checked out the reaction of the Usual Suspects whose hysterical pearl-clutching confirmed its significance. And so much was significant. First the location in Poland and the frequent references to that country's glorious Christian history. You must understand that Poland is arguably the most anti-Semitic (read: Jew-aware) country in the world. “As the Polish experience reminds us, the defence of the west ultimately rests not only on means but also on the will of its people to prevail” Now that hurt. What a hater. (And by the way he didn't get around to visiting the Holocau$t™ Memorial due to 'scheduling difficulties'. Right.)

Then he rubbed salt in the wound. “Americans, Poles, and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty. We must work together to counter forces, whether they come from inside or out, ... that threaten over time to undermine these values and to erase the bonds of culture, faith and tradition that make us who we are. Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?”

Britain's Liberal Guardian Joins the Genocide Party for the Destruction of the Nation State: Calls for Fewer (white) Children

Breitbart, July 12, 2017: Having children is a “lifestyle choice” to be discouraged among young people in developed nations and is bad for the planet, according to a new paper trailed positively by the British left-wing Guardian newspaper.

Reporting a new Swedish-Canadian study promoting reducing the number of children born and seeking to target anti-child messages towards adolescents, Britain’s Guardiannewspaper has played up the findings, labelling the “true impacts” of having a family as “lifestyle choices”, and asking the question of readers “Can you bring yourself to have one fewer of these?”.

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Trump Trolls America

By Dmitry Orlov

Russia Insider, July 12, 2017: A remarkable meeting took place last week—the first face-to-face meeting between Trump and Putin—and I would be remiss not to comment on it. In viewing videos of the meeting (the few snippets shot during the brief seconds when journalists were allowed to stampede into the room, pushing and shoving) it became clear to me that these two people connected quite well, finding in each other an intelligent and sympathetic interlocutor. Many people would find this characterization strange. It is common to see in Putin an inscrutable, cryptically menacing cipher, and in Trump a chaotic, bloviating buffoon. In a sense, they are right, but only on the surface.

That surface, in the case of Putin and in the case of Trump, consists of a carefully synthesized public persona honed over many design iterations and practice runs. For each of them, it has been conditioned by the specifics of Russia and the US, respectively: what the people there respond to well, what they expect and what they are capable of. The specifics of their public personae and what conditioned them are interesting in their own right. But what’s really important is what lies beneath them…

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Alone Perhaps, But Is Trump Right?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Buchanan.org, July10, 2017: At the G-20 in Hamburg, it is said, President Trump was isolated, without support from the other G-20 members, especially on climate change and trade.

Perhaps so. But the crucial question is not whether Trump is alone, but whether he is right. Has Trump read the crisis of the West correctly? Are his warnings valid? Is not the Obama-Merkel vision of a New World Order a utopian fantasy?

At the monument to the patriots of the Warsaw Uprising, Trump cited Poland as exemplar of how a great people behaves in a true national crisis.

Calling the Polish people “the soul of Europe,” he related how, in the Miracle of the Vistula in 1920, Poland, reborn after 12 decades of subjugation, drove back the invading Red Army of Leon Trotsky.

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Prof. Jordan Peterson: Time to Take Out the Neo-Marxists in Academia and Education

The video clip originally posted here has gone down the U-Tube (memory hole). However, the following longer clip is from the same talk an provides a better context for his remarks which constitute a stirring defense of Western civilization.

Why Electric Cars Will Replace Gas-powered Cars — And Improve the Environment

From the dawn of the automotive era, the superiority of the electric drive over the internal combustion engine (ICE) has been recognized. Lighter, quieter, with fewer moving parts, requiring less frequent maintenance, and with higher low-end torque for rapid acceleration without a multi-speed transmission, an electric drive is superior to a gas engine in every way.

The problem with the electric car and the reason that the Detroit Electric (1907–1939) and other early electric automobile companies ceased production was the battery, which fully justified the description of an electric car as a vehicle for conveying a large quantities of batteries a short distance — to which, if you want to go further, you must add more batteries.

Bill Gates: If Germans Want to Help Poor People, They Should Help Them in Their Country of Origin, Not Destroy Europe By Inciting Mass Immigration

Destruction of the European nations has been the objective of EuroAmerican elite policy for decades, but it has now kicked into high gear as the end-game approaches.

The policy objective is to replace nation state democracy with global governance, which is to say governance by Money-Power-controlled international bodies such as the World Trade Organization, the corrupt United Nations Organization, etc., etc.

Globalist Justin Trudeau to Canadians: Canada Isn't Your Country, It Belongs to Everyone

Justin Trudeau Says Immigrants Are More Canadian Than Natives

Information Liberation July 2, 2017: While conservatives in the US makes jokes about liberals believing immigrants are more American than "native" Americans, that is what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau actually believes.

Stephen Hawking Gone Bonkers Climate Alarmist

Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist has attacked US President Donald Trump, saying:

“We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid.” 

But on the plus side, the famed physicist said:

“evolution has inbuilt greed and aggression to the human genome”, meaning that we might wipe ourselves out before Earth turns into Venus."

So relax everybody. Nothing new to worry about. We'll probably all die some horrible death you've never even dreamed of.

And meantime, the top climate scientists — you know, the people who actually study climate, rather than just make alarming pronouncements about it — now acknowledge that all their models predicting catastrophic climate warming are wrong. 

Merkel's Germany Makes it Official: Germans Expressing Opposition to the Genocide of Their Own People by Suppressed Fertility and Mass Replacement Immigration Are Racist Criminals

Sticks and stones will break my bones
But words will never hurt me
Old English saying

Totalitarianism has returned to Germany. "Freedom of speech ends where the criminal law begins,” said Justice Minister Heiko Maas, who was the driving force behind Germany's new, Orwellian Anti-Free-Speech law.

And for sure, the tyrannical fucker's right.

Will Electric Vehicles Curb Global Carbon Emissions? Perhaps Not. Part 2

In an earlier post, I questioned whether electric cars are really going to save the environment. Specifically, I questioned whether their overall carbon footprint was any less than that of an efficient gas-powered car. The question is complex, however, and I ran out of energy after a couple of paragraphs. Thus I entitled the piece Will Electric Vehicles Curb Global Carbon Emissions? Perhaps Not. Part 1 intending to return to the subject at a later date when my energy level was sufficient for the necessary research.

Today I embarked on that task but soon became enervated by the effort to assimilate a mass of information about embodied energy per vehicle versus propulsion system, vehicle mass, location of manufacture; energy cost of highway infrastructure; and much else besides. Thus, before reaching the point of total inanition, I paused for reflection, and came to the conclusion that the issue of electric cars and carbon emissions could be argued all ways indefinitely without definite conclusion.

Former US Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, Economics Professor, Wall St. Journal Editor: US Economy Is Washed Up; Trump Admin. Low Grade Lying Idiots