Archive for August 2008

One of the charges repeatedly leveled against me by the Southern
Poverty Law center and others who would silence my research is that
I write for The Occidental Quarterly and serve on its Editorial Board.1
Thus I want to explain here why I write for TOQ, and why I think this
journal is so important.

I like to think of The Occidental Quarterly on the model of the Partisan
Review in the 1940s and 50s. Partisan Review was an important leftist intellectual
publication that gradually became anti-communist with increasing
evidence of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. The editors,
writers, and readers of Partisan Review saw themselves as alienated,
marginalized figures. As Norman Podhoretz put it, “They did not feel
that they belonged to America or that America belonged to them.”2 But
times have changed, and now that the ideas championed by Partisan
Review, and the left in general, predominate, it is we who don’t feel that
we belong to America or that America belongs to us. But the good news
is that change can happen fairly quickly—within the lifetimes of individuals.

An encouraging sign is that it’s beginning to be respectable to talk
openly about Jewish power and influence.
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DENVER—After the phony roll call vote was taken here to formally nominate Barack Obama—a roll call that did not remotely reflect the true delegate strength of Hillary—the media exploded in an orgy of celebration about the historic character of the moment to which they had just been privileged to be witness.

“The first black presidential nominee ever of a major party in history!” was proclaimed. Coming on the 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Barack’s nomination is being hailed as the last great step forward in the long march to equality and justice in America.

The moral pressure to join the march of history is enormous.

Nor is it unfair to say that some journalists here are obsessed with the issue of race in this campaign. There may be wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rising tensions with Russia, a falling regime in Pakistan, and reports of U.S. and NATO warships headed for the Persian Gulf, but here it is all about the first black ever nominated for president.

During the primaries, Bill Clinton was charged with racism by liberal Democrats for saying that Barack’s claim to being consistent on Iraq was a “fairy tale” and for implying that Barack’s victory in South Carolina was no big deal because Jesse Jackson had carried the state twice.
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Some of the toughest legislation in the nation to fight illegal immigration.

The legislation sets into law policies proposed to crack down on illegal immigration.

* prohibiting illegals from obtaining driver licenses

* prohibits the creation of sanctuary cities in the state

* requires verification of legal employment status of every public employee

* allows for cancellation of state contracts for contractors if they hire illegal immigrants

* requires public agencies to verify the legal status of applicants before providing welfare benefits
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IRELAND is a “highly attractive” destination for illegal immigrants and criminal gangs smuggling them in, an influential EU study has found.

Europol says that immigrants are looking to Ireland as a haven and perfect location for outrunning immigration officials.

And it concluded that crime gangs working within the country and overseas were now running major people smuggling operations.

“The UK and Ireland are highly attractive destinations for illegal immigrants and organised crime groups who facilitate illegal immigration,” said the EU Organised Crime Threat Assessment 2008.

“Both countries are favourite destinations because of a flourishing economy and consequent demand for workers, particularly in low-skilled sectors.”

The report by the EU police co-ordination agency said “significant numbers of people” who would once have targeted the UK or the Netherlands were now attempting to enter Ireland.
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LOS ANGELES—A UCLA professor resigned from an admissions committee Thursday, saying he suspects officials are cheating to illegally admit more black students but have blocked access to data that would prove it.

Political science professor Tim Groseclose said he was concerned because “applicants often reveal their own race in the essay portion of the application,” according to an Orange County Register story.

University officials said admissions evaluators don’t see the names, race or ethnicity of applicants and that they’re following the law. They also said privacy concerns prevent them from giving Groseclose the data he wants.

California’s public universities are banned from using race as an admissions criteria, but campus officials have been under intense pressure to increase numbers of black students.

Of the freshman that will start classes next month, 235 students are black, or about 5 percent of the class. Two years ago, only 96 African American freshman enrolled.

If students write about their race or ethnicity in their applications, the people who read and evaluate their files are not supposed to consider it as a factor, said Janina Montero, vice chancellor for student affairs.
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More than one in three babies born in England and Wales are non-white, according to new Government figures.

The first-ever Government breakdown of births by ethnicity show just 64.4 per cent of the 649,371 babies born in 2005 were recorded as White British.

And of those white British children, only half were born to married parents.

Nearly nine per cent are listed as Asian, five per cent as black, 3.5 per cent as mixed and 2.4 per cent as ‘other ethnic group’.

The figures, released by the Office for National Statistics, also reveal significant differences in the age and marital status of mothers in the various ethnic groups.

Nearly all Asian babies are born to married parents, compared with just one third in the Caribbean group and just over half in the British category.
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If there were any doubt that the rules of the international game have changed for good, the events of the past few days should have dispelled it. On Monday, President Bush demanded that Russia’s leaders reject their parliament’s appeal to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Within 24 hours, Bush had his response: President Medvedev announced Russia’s recognition of the two contested Georgian enclaves.

The Russian message was unmistakable: the outcome of the war triggered by Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia on August 7 is non-negotiable - and nothing the titans of the US empire do or say is going to reverse it. After that, the British foreign secretary David Miliband’s posturing yesterday in Kiev about building a “coalition against Russian aggression” merely looked foolish.

That this month’s events in the Caucasus signal an international turning point is no longer in question. The comparisons with August 1914 are of course ridiculous, and even the speculation about a new cold war overdone. For all the manoeuvres in the Black Sea and nuclear-backed threats, the standoff between Russia and the US is not remotely comparable to the events that led up to the first world war. Nor do the current tensions have anything like the ideological and global dimensions that shaped the 40-year confrontation between the west and the Soviet Union.
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The head of the Arizona Police Association says illegal immigration is a federal issue and the government is providing no direction on how to deal with it.

Dale Norris said a policy must be adopted soon or problems associated with illegal immigration will balloon.

Smugglers have become increasingly violent and do not care who they have to hurt or kill to get drugs and people across the border, Norris said.

“As we make the consequences of the smuggling act harsher on the people doing it, their resistance to being arrested is going to get higher and higher.”

Border Patrol agents are frustrated at the lack of federal leadership, said Norris.

“You can see the frustration that they’re facing. `Why am I out here risking my life to arrest people when you’re behind my back talking about, well, the ones that get past you, maybe we won’t do anything with them.’”
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HATTIESBURG — Eight detainees from Monday’s immigration raid on Howard Industries in Laurel used stolen identities, including one of a dead person, to gain employment, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The eight appeared in U.S. District Court for a preliminary and detention hearing.

Prosecutors displayed as proof fraudulent resident alien cards, Social Security cards along with Howard Industries employment verification forms.

U.S. Magistrate Mike Parker ordered all held without bond because they could “assume another identity (and) easily flee.”

If convicted of aggravated identity theft, each could face up to two years in prison or a $250,000 fine or both.
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The author of a book on cannibalism in Maori history has been accused of racism in a complaint to the Human Rights Commission.

Historian Paul Moon is defending his book This Horrid Practice and stands by his research.

“I spent several years researching this book, using an enormous body of documentation, and I’m not about to denounce it just because it upsets a few people,” he told the New Zealand Herald.

An anonymous complaint said the book “describes the whole of Maori society as violent and dangerous. This is a clearly racist view claiming a whole ethnic group has these traits”.

The commission has so far taken no action on the complaint.

The book suggests that consuming vanquished enemies’ mana had little to do with the underlying reason for Maori cannibalism. Instead, cannibalism, in pre-colonial times was simply about “rage and humiliation”.

Dr Moon said he approached the topic “honestly” and applied standard methods of research to it.

“I think it’s just very sad that it’s come to this stage that when you write about certain topics in New Zealand history you get complaints and accusations of racism levelled at you.”
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