Holes in The Narrative

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/21st-assailant-sentenced-in-Cleveland-gang-rape-4889262.php#photo-3451930
I wrote about these crimes a few years ago. Note the difference in sentences between those who went to trial and those who pled guilty. Note how brief are the sentences of the pleaders. Note that the "juveniles" were sentenced only to parole. This is the response of the legal system to the repeated gang rape of an 11 year old Mexican girl by over twenty black males--a pack of sub-humans who also threatened the girl's safety if she told anyone about the rapes. Each of these creatures ought to be put down like dangerous dogs, to include the juveniles. The resolution of this story received virtually no national news space in the major media outlets. Lies of omission remain the strongest strategy of the Cathedral.

Insights into the Abrahamic Faiths

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2015/02/16/jihad-and-self-sacrifice-in-islam/

Reformation of Islam is impossible. Jihad is the meaning of Islam. Sacrifice is requisite to all the Abrahamic faiths. For Muslims the form of the sacrifice is jihad. The Muslim sacrifices himself and thereby proves his faith. For Christians and Jews, the sacrifice is vicarious--it is ritualized, as in the Eucharist. But, Allah will not accept merely symbolic sacrifice. He requires the blood of the believer. All this is made quite clear in the Koran. The manifold encroachments of modernity incite the faithful of the Ummah to enact the Koranic command: jihad. This will continue until the Muslim world "burns to the socket."

Cyclical Still?

"I have said that Asia and the ancient world had an air of being too old to die. Christendom has had the very opposite fate. Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a god who knew the way out of the grave. But the first extraordinary fact which marks this history is this: that Europe has been turned upside down over and over again; and that at the end of each of these revolutions the same religion has again been found on top. The Faith is always converting the age, not as an old religion but as a new religion. "
- G.K Chesterton (The Five Deaths of the Faith)

There is much truth to this, but one new factor now is the presence of an opposed faith in the European heartland. Also, it's possible that the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution represent something new under the sun, which might constitute an endpoint.

The French and Their Guests

The American conservatives are delighted with the French Prime Minister's recent "defiant" and "forceful" speech on defending French Jews and defeating anti-Semitism. But, what's wonderful or forceful about this evasive address? He's using the term "anti-Semitism" as a euphemism for "Muslim." Euphemizing the problem is the opposite of being forceful. This is more politically correct garbage from another garbage dealer, one who refuses to recognize the threats posted by both Muslims and Jews. His claim that without the Jews there is no France is absurd--France built itself into the most powerful and culturally accomplished nation in the world during its Jewless era. England followed an identical course. For realists, the question is whether the talents the Jews afford their hosts compensates for the socio-political debasement they inflict. In Israel, this dilemma magically resolves itself. (Could it be the Tribe instinctively undermines the Other, but not itself?)

On the Nature of G

From Jensen's The G Factor:

The g factor, which is needed theoretically to account for the positive correlations between all tests, is necessarily unitary only within the domain of factor analysis. But the brain mechanisms or processes responsible for the fact that individual differences in a variety of abilities are positively correlated, giving rise to g, need not be unitary. … Some modules may be reflected in the primary factors; but there are other modules that do not show up as factors, such as the ability to acquire language, quick recognition memory for human faces, and three-dimensional space perception, because individual differences among normal persons are too slight for these virtually universal abilities to emerge as factors, or sources of variance. This makes them no less real or important. Modules are distinct, innate brain structures that have developed in the course of human evolution. They are especially characterized by the various ways that information or knowledge is represented by the neural activity of the brain. The main modules thus are linguistic (verbal/auditory/lexical/semantic), visuospatial, object recognition, numerical-mathematical, musical, and kinesthetic. …

In contrast, there are persons whose tested general level of ability is within the normal range, yet who, because of a localized brain lesion, show a severe deficiency in some particular ability, such as face recognition, receptive or expressive language dysfunctions (aphasia), or inability to form long-term memories of events. Again, modularity is evidenced by the fact that these functional deficiencies are quite isolated from the person’s total repertoire of abilities. Even in persons with a normally intact brain, a module’s efficiency can be narrowly enhanced through extensive experience and practice in the particular domain served by the module.



But at some level of analysis of the processes correlated with g it will certainly be found that more than a single process is responsible for g, whether these processes are at the level of the processes measured by elementary cognitive tasks, or at the level of neurophysiological processes, or even at the molecular level of neural activity. If successful performance on every complex mental test involves, let us say, two distinct, uncorrelated processes, A and B (which are distinguishable and measurable at some less complex level than that of the said tests) in addition to any other processes that are specific to each test or common only to certain groups of tests, then in a factor analysis all tests containing A and B will be loaded on a general factor. At this level of analysis, this general factor will forever appear unitary, although it is actually the result of two separate processes, A and B. … However, the fact that g has all the characteristics of a polygenic trait (with a substantial component of nongenetic variance) and is correlated with a number of complexly determined aspects of brain anatomy and physiology, as indicated in Chapter 6, makes it highly probable that g, though unitary at a psychometric level of analysis, is not unitary at a biological level.

Making Movies is Easy

Preston Sturges wrote up a list in 1941:

Rules for Box Office Appeal


1 A pretty girl is better than an ugly one.
2 A leg is better than an arm
3 A bedroom is better than a living room
4 An arrival is better than a departure.
5 A birth is better than a death.
6 A chase is better than a chat.
7 A dog is better than a landscape.
8 A kitten is better than a dog.
9 A baby is better than a kitten.
10 A kiss is better than a baby.
11 A pratfall is better than anything.

Over-Domesticated

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-31130750

The Pakistanis are like an invasive plant species from the great wide world, transplanted now to a little greenhouse environment in which natural defenses are deliberately suppressed by the rulers: the invader naturally overruns and destroys all the natives in its new territory.


Rotherham has about 250,000 people. The minimum estimates of number abused mean that at least 10% of all the young native English Rotherham girls over the last twenty years have been abused by these Paki gangs. And to this day nothing has been done to prevent future predation: no enhanced protections are in place, and no accountability has been imposed upon the abusers or the neglectful government officials/police. Only Rotherham has been investigated at all competently: the Pakis pursue this modus operandi throughout England, meaning the overall scope of abuse is probably at least an order of magnitude greater than here reported. There are only 10,000 Pakis in Rotherham, but 1.3 million in England (130 times as many).


Europe cannot have its cake and eat it: it cannot sustain its current civilizational path and host tens of millions of uncivilized people. It has now three options: it may expel the barbarians, it may revert to a different, more severe form of civilization, or it may succumb to the barbarians and submit to the Ummah.

War and Energy

Putin and the EU: Two half-crippled, hyper-bureaucratized empires at it again, the corrupt and backward vs the stagnant and surrender-prone:
http://www.xenosystems.net/quote-note-147/


A look at oil price and oil investment trends:
http://www.xenosystems.net/oil-pulse/
Extrapolating low-medium oil prices ($50-$80/bbl) for 10-15 years seems reasonable to me: see Spandrell in the comments. The main novel risk of a price rise comes from the possibility that the shale investments may not continue producing for very long compared to the conventional investments in the past.


This should mean significantly cheaper, more versatile car batteries within 5-10 years:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201406719/abstract