I’ve noticed a lot of naturally blonde Finnish + Scandinavian girls dye their hair black (in London). To get away from the blonde stereotype or the the reputation that dyed-blonde women have.

I happened to read this article just before reading another one: http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/stasi-snitches-all-around-records-reveal-true-extent-of-telling-on-others-20151116-gkzu44

The parallels are striking.

No other solo star can match Bowie. Other artists think of music as a ticket to an easy life, but Bowie took it seriously. He was also very good at picking collaborators. I think he was dedicated to the ‘final form’ of the art, even almost sacrificing his sense of self in the process.

Has anyone down a serious analysis of race and Hollywood? How do the proportions match up to the general population. I would suspect Jews and Blacks to be over-represented (Blacks mainly in acting, Jews in directing and producing), with Asians and Hispanics under-represented.

But you can go out to the disco with a woman here,” adds Johanna brightly. “Although remember, even if she dances with you very closely and is wearing a short skirt, that doesn’t mean she wants to have sex with you.”

A Somali teenager pulls his woolly hat over his ears and cradles his head in his hands as if his brain can’t cope with all this new information.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35353310

My feeling is completely the opposite – there is no one more laconic than Mediterranean people. A Greek villager, or a Palermo cafe goer, will always be 100 times more laconic than a loud British tourist.

Someone should do a study about above average looking women and their ability to fool the world with dubious scientific claims. Cuddy and Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos etc.

I’ve seen lots of people saying that the Democratic Party is ideologically Jewish dominated and Hilary is the approved pro-Israel candidate. Maybe there is something to that. Over 50% of funding for presidential candidates apparently comes from Jews.

But she does seem fond of the resolutely anti-Zionist Max Blumenthal:

http://m.jpost.com/Opinion/No-Holds-Barred-Hillarys-Clintons-troubling-relationship-with-Israel-hating-adviser

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/blumenthal-person-times/

Speaking of the Onion, there was a strangely unfunny article in it this week:
http://www.theonion.com/article/female-presidential-candidate-who-was-united-state-52367

The tone seemed a bit off, as if a humorless writer was trying to imitate the Onion’s style.

Turns out that Clinton-supporter, and rabid Israel-Firster, Haim Saban, has just bought a 40% share in the Onion.
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/26/ha-ha-hillary-clintons-top-financial-supporter-now-controls-the-onion/

This situation reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_anti-African_protests

On a similar topic, when I read this BBC article, I had a vision of the future of the US, where ethnic groups have become castes, and demand to be officially oppressed, to get the benefits.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35627819

Does any reader of this blog support Bernie-style policies?

I think the “free” education should be limited mainly to connecting the able to in-demand professional qualifications. I don’t think it helps the country that someone who has talent can’t afford to become an engineer, or that they have a lifetime of debt. The kind of qualifications targeted would be the same that H1b visa applicants have. This could kill two birds with one stone – less immigration and a better qualified native population.

I wish someone like Ron Unz could get behind a scheme like this. Like the minimum wage, it seems like it could be something that left and right could both agree on.

The most revealing Obama quote from that interview:

If only everyone could be like the Scandinavians, this would all be easy

Trump has a fair chance of getting in – close to 50% maybe. But I think there is 0% chance that he’s going to change from what he is – a Berlusconi-style showman and self-promoter – into some sort of noble statesman who will enact every cranky policy idea that Unz readers and writers can come up with.

I’m sure there are many people who believe that Bernie will bring us a Socialist Paradise, or that Hillary will give us a Golden Era of Matriarchy. They’re wrong. But Trump supporters have their delusions too.

The co-writer of Idiocracy – Etan Cohen – has said that he never expected that the movie would become a documentary. Wrestling kingpin Camacho Trump has what plants crave.

Are all your articles going to be in a book one day?

I just searched for Postcards…America on Amazon and realised that I had already ordered it in Sept last year. Amazon says it’s coming in Nov. Looking forward to it, and the other books when they come out.

For someone in London, the appeal of the American postcards is that they show a side which is either completely ignored, or sneered at, by other American writers. I just read an article about the death of blue-collar tv – http://www.avclub.com/article/where-are-all-the-blue-collar-sitcoms-85978 . Now, tv seems full of rich narcissists from either New York or LA who never have to give money a second thought. This is reflected in the larger culture too.

Trump loves outsourcing, bailouts and Clinton.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/03/18/donald-trump-blog-trump-university/81965270/

But you can be king if you tell people what that want to hear:

The best possible solution for Russia and Ukraine would be to embrace their Rus origins, and allow Sweden to directly rule over both states. Slavs seem unable to run societies, and need people of a higher nature to look up to.

I couldn’t vote for any candidate who pandered to AIPAC. So the only worthwhile candidate is Sanders.

I’m sure I’m not the first to think that the current enthusiasm for the idea of white guilt is similar to the idea of the wandering Jew, forced by guilt for killing Christ to wander the Earth in penance for ever.

Historically naïve SJWs would jump at the chance to make white people wear a badge as a sign of their eternal guilt.

Latinos (esp. Mexicans) may outlive the US life expectancy, but I doubt they outlive *white* US life expectancies.

Latinos in the US live two years longer than non-Latino whites.

Only from an American perspective could an Ikarian diet be regarded as near starvation. Summer on the island is one traditional feast after another. I wouldn’t be surprised if the average American was nutritionally starved – cattle in Europe get better quality food than humans in the US.

The reasons for long life are obvious and banal:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

You don’t have to inflict Chetty on yourself to understand these things.

For Dinh readers – an interesting podcast with a similar theme: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/ron-pauls-baby/

The presenter is a bit annoying though.

Josette Simon used to live near me in Crouch End, London. Probably still does. Remarkably well-preserved.

See also ‘jawn’: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-enduring-mystery-of-jawn-philadelphias-allpurpose-noun

In the age of social media (the mob combined with mass media), the vocabulary reduces to fit the lowest common denominator. Like, you get me, bruh?

Way back in the 50s Congolese youth were dressing like cowboys : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bills_(subculture)

http://www.teenagefilm.com/archives/threads-ahead/the-bills/%20

Their hero was Charlton Heston…

Interesting timing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36123214

The leaders of the three biggest parties in Scotland are women, and two of them are lesbians. Lesbian testosterone seems an under appreciated source of political power. Ask Huma.

I don’t think Mongolia can be compared to a black ghetto. They once controlled Central Asia, China, Russian, even parts of Europe and the Middle East. Their IQ is 101, not bad for an undeveloped country. I can see an analogy with Scandinavia with the warrior culture and age of migration etc.

These are mono-ethnic countries. Their schooling doesn’t need to be dumbed down to make everyone happy. Over 50 years ago, Western Europe had the same advantages.

The article’s touting of Boulder as “the liberal future” and it’s awkward whiteness reminds me of an old joke: Why are there no Arabs in Star Trek? Because it’s set in the future.

Or Woody Allen, Bryan Singer, Roman Polanski etc etc. Something ties these people together, but I can’t think what. Anyway, surely it’s time for a Hollywood film associating Cathlocism with pedophilia.

Trump is an entertaining Berlusconi-style con man. The Kanye West of the political scene. Un-restrained narcissism and materialism. So many people, of different political stripes, think that his election is going to be some golden year zero for whatever cause they have – talk about coalition of the fringes!

This is the same as many “health foods” today. For instance soy milk and other soya based products were heavily marketed as healthy, but producers just needed to make more money from excess animal feed.

According to the book The Intelligence of Dogs, the dumbest dogs are the Congolese Basenji and the Afghan Hound. Perhaps these unlucky parts of the world just need a better class of dog.

“This is what rapists look like”

Here’s a challenge to the technically literate – can someone access the mugshot pictures from the last year, for rape, and do a composite picture? I get the feeling that the result won’t look Swedish.

Tim Cook, gay leader of Apple, had a moments silence at Apple’s annual WWDC event: http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/13/tim-cook-opens-wwdc-with-moment-of-silence-for-orlando-terrorist-attack-victims/

Tim Cook is known for refusing requests to help the Feds get access to terrorist iPhones.

Will that happen this time? http://m.theage.com.au/world/orlando-gunman-omar-mateen-had-used-gay-dating-app-visited-pulse-nightclub-witnesses-say-20160614-gpieye.html

“FBI agents scrambled on Monday to recover data from Mateen’s electronic media – mobile phones, computers and other devices…”

Will the murder of gays out-Pokemon privacy?

The first suicide attack in the Middle East was by the Japanese Red Army at Lod Airport, Israel. They carried little ritual dolls with them, exactly like Kamikaze pilots. 9/11 can be traced back to the Samurai spirit.

http://genius.com/The-clash-something-about-england-lyrics

Slightly off topic: The presumed successor to Jeremy Corbyn (UK Labour leader) is Angela Eagle, another pro-immigration Anglela.

She is an out lesbian. Leaders of both Scottish Labour and Scottish Conservatives are also lesbians. Has there ever been a situation where most of the female leaders of a country are lesbians? Any majority female movement eventually becomes a jobs for the gays movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Menace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Eagle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Davidson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kezia_Dugdale

Any intellectual explosion comes from a dam breaking. A population that has been separate before, but is highly educated, suddenly breaks the dam and transforms everything in its path.

Christians in Europe started the proto-universities of Europe. Studying scripture sharpened their minds, and eventually the dam broke and the love of learning spread into the secular world, with associated scientific revolutions.

The same happened with the Islamic golden age. And from the 19th century, there has been a Jewish wave. The dam was broken by Jewish Emancipation, and all those centuries of Torah study had prepared the Jews for the secular world of ideas.

The Chinese dam is breaking with its opening up to the west, as the Japanese did after WW2. Like the previous waves this will change all of us, but will also fade in a century or two. Perhaps a North Korean wave will occur soon.

Who said that?

The contemporary version of Merck is the Sackler family, who have pushed OxyContin to America and the world. The Sacklers seem to target the white working class. Part of the reason they have evaded scrutiny is that they have wormed their way into the largely left liberal art world. In the UK, they have a foothold in nearly every major gallery. In Washington DC, they have a gallery near the Holocaust Memorial Museum. If there was justice, each of their galleries would be turned into memorials for those they had murdered.