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    Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively at VDARE.com My faith in the integrity of courtroom justice was holed below the waterline twenty-some years ago, when I followed the child sex-abuse hysterias of the 1980s and 1990s. Those were shameful injustices, travesties of justice. Decent, harmless citizens like Gerald Amirault and his family—there were...
  • The case is tainted by the corruption of law enforcement, common in that part of the world, where I grew up, at least in the pass. Killer pere, formerly of the police, asked DA Jackie Johnson, a friend, to block investigation, the request being a crime. She imposed the coverup, also a crime, for which she is now under felony indictment. Those who, following her orders, wrote the documents asserting no wrongdoing, are morally and perhaps legally party to obstruction of justice. The Deep South and Long Island are different places.
    Many commenting on the adventure seem unable to distinguish between evidence and assumption, suspicion, and wish. He Arbery allegedly entered the house five times, consistently leaving without stealing anything. Not stealing is not evidence of stealing. The day of his killing he left the house with, visibly to the killers, nothing in his possession. The line of reasoning—there had been thefts in the neighborhood, Arbery was in the neighborhood, therefore Arbery was the thief—works in the comment section of Unz but not in court.
    That the shooter’s father consoled him is perhaps touching, but irrelevant, as the law judges you on what you do, not how you feel about it later. Doubtless Arbery could have run in another direction, but this is irrelevant as Georgia law does not prescribe your direction of flight when pursued by vigilantes in trucks. That he had THC in his system might have been relevant if he had been on trial for drug use, but he wasn’t on trial for anything at all.
    As the prosecutor told the jury—I presume you watched the video—the only question before them was whether the three were conducting a legitimate citizen’s arrest. If not, running Arbery down was an assault made with no authority. The killers had not seen Arbery commit a felony since he had not committed one. They had no grounds to suspect him of committing a burglary since he left the house empty-handed. No felony, no reasonable suspicion of felony, no citizen’s arrest.
    The self-defense defense has no basis in law. If you attack someone, as by chasing him with trucks which you use to herd him in desired directions—this is ADW—and at some point he turns to fight, you cannot kill him and claim self-defense. This is neither rocket science nor legally speculative, being (I think) settled law everywhere.
    I don’t think I can reasonably be charged with being soft on crime by blacks, or anyone else, but murder is murder, regardless of the albedo of the murderers. Again, the South does not work like northern suburbs.

    • Agree: Avery, Jonathan Mason
    • Disagree: Colin Wright
    • Troll: Mike Tre, Maddaugh
    • Replies: @Tono Bungay
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Well argued, Frederick. Yours is the same as mine was before I read Jared Taylor's analysis of the trial. Now I'm leaning your way again. Glad I'm not a juror anywhere.

    , @Bragadocious
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Look who straggled in, the prodigal son who poured water on Ron's favorite theories.

    I have to agree with the old coot this time, the McMichaels overstepped their boundaries. The elder McMichael did a poor job of knowing the law--inexcusable since he used to be the law himself.

    The smarter thing would have been to follow jogger boy down the road with their cameras rolling, shouting at him that all this footage would be going to the po-po. He'd have been scared shitless, and probably found a new cul-de-sac to terrorize.

    Or they could have set some sort of primitive trap like an open container of paint perched above a door left ajar. The sight of Arbery running away with white paint all over him would be priceless.

    Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @AbrahamSteinblattbaumstein, @SaneClownPosse

    , @Uncle Sam
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Arbery knew that his pursuers knew that he was up to no good. That is why he kept running, euphemistically called "jogging". If he had not done anything wrong , anyone with an IQ of 70 would have stopped and explained himself. The McMichaels would have let him go on his way. They certainly come across as reasonable people.

    The McMichaels certainly had probable cause to do a citizens arrest. That is the key point. The fact that Arbery was in that house under constructions uninvited on several occasions is a burglay felony even tho nothing was taken. Under Georgia law you don't have to take anything. What was his intent is the issue. Arbery was no carpenter, plumber or electrician. There is nothing in his record that he did any type of construction work. So you can easily infer that he wanted to steal something.

    In any case, all of the above becomes irrelevant when he decided to attack Travis. It became a life and death struggle over the shotgun, which resulted in Arbery dying. It was a justifiable homicide. The trial was a show trial staged for political purposes and is a travesty of justice. I hope it is reversed on appeal. I wish all 3 of these convicted men the best.

    Replies: @Bragadocious, @KeaponLaffin

    , @Robert Dolan
    @Frederick V. Reed

    They didn't attack Arbery, you fool.....Arbery attacked THEM.

    , @Hibernian
    @Frederick V. Reed


    The Deep South and Long Island are different places.
     
    Don't know much about Long Island, but Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Illinois, and Louisiana have a lot in common. I've heard rumors to the effect that the political system of Texas is also not exactly squeaky clean.
    , @Colin Wright
    @Frederick V. Reed

    '...I don’t think I can reasonably be charged with being soft on crime by blacks, or anyone else...'

    But we can perhaps charge you with living in a bygone era. I would disagree with you about the legalities of the case, but perhaps that's become a red herring.

    Perhaps the legal argument is no longer relevant. In case you haven't noticed, the only sense in which we're not having a race war is that we're not fighting back. That needs to change, not continue. Eleven of those jurors were white. They should not have voted to convict.

    You remind me of the British cabinet minister in the winter of 1939-40, who, when asked why Bomber Command wasn't dropping incendiaries on the Black Forest, retorted that the land in question was private property.

    Catch up with what's going on.

    , @PJ London
    @Frederick V. Reed

    At last a sane voice.
    Like Chauvin the justice system rid society of really ignorant and stupid people.
    The Gene pool thanks the system.
    What happened to "It has got nothing to do with you. Phuq Off. Mind your own business."
    Everybody wants to get involved in everything.

    , @Tony massey
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Good to hear from you Mr Reed. I wasn't too worried about you i figured you were hiding out in the open somewhere.
    I enjoyed the last column of yours i read. It was a few weeks ago.
    Happy holidays to you and the family, Sir.
    Take care look forward to reading moar columns from you

    , @SBaker
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Whatever you state "the law" says does not make it right. Hiding the facts of Arbery's career as a criminal is the law--but that does not make the hiding of his past the right thing to do.
    "That Arbury was a known criminal with a violent past means the law didn’t do its job of segregating him from society permanently. The law is the major problem in this situation since had it done the required job, none of this would have happened. It put that POS back on the street where he could continue being a problem and left him on the street after he proved beyond doubt that he can’t be trusted.

    That his pursuers had no cause to go after him is a small matter of bad judgement that in and of itself would not have harmed anyone. When the low life Arbury committed unintentional suicide by pulling on the barrel of a shotgun that should have been the end of the matter. A decent prosecutor would have held off any prosecutions as part of a deal to not give the pursuers a medal for helping clean up the town."

    , @Maddaugh
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Many commenting on the adventure seem unable to distinguish between evidence and assumption, suspicion, and wish.
     
    And you seem unable to distinguish between reality, fantasy and the current behaviour of blacks.

    Everything, most times, seem perfectly logical to real lawyers and wannabee lawyers. However we live in a world of emotion and one today where self preservation is paramount when blacks are seen consistently loitering around. Lawyers are essentially word engineers, twisting narratives to achieve their goals which are : To satisfy the people PAYING THEM. This is clearly evident when we look at any case in Court. Both the Prosecution and Defence have far different spins on the "evidence and assumption, suspicion, and wish". Our country is run by Lawyers and given the state of the place this gives one a view of what they are all about.

    Now as you pointed out :

    He Arbery allegedly entered the house five times, consistently leaving without stealing anything. Not stealing is not evidence of stealing.

    I ask you Freddy, what if he had entered YOUR house in a similar manner. He may have left 5 times without stealing but what about the 6th time ? Maybe there would have been something to steal AND if the owner was around a murder added to the equation.

    That is just one example. If we look at all your other assertions and ask WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE we would get a different answer. You would not be so "logical" with your lawyer like B/S.


    The self-defense defense has no basis in law. If you attack someone, as by chasing him with trucks which you use to herd him in desired directions—this is ADW—and at some point he turns to fight, you cannot kill him and claim self-defense
     
    What claptrap ! Please tell us exactly which law school you attended !

    Hence your commentary is BUNK more so when we take into consideration Arbery;s past bad behaviours and brushes with the law. Arbery was an accident waiting to happen. Luckily this time it happened to him.

    As time passes and the public (black especially) loses interest, these three whites will be released. They had every justification for capping this wretched character depicted in his photos one way, as a smiling "about to enter University" scholar but in reality a hard faced loser with a criminal mentality and past.

    Replies: @Mackie Messer

    , @KenH
    @Frederick V. Reed


    As the prosecutor told the jury—I presume you watched the video—the only question before them was whether the three were conducting a legitimate citizen’s arrest.
     
    I presumed Fredrico read the law. It is two sentences and establishes a different standard in each sentence. If the offense is a felony, which burglary is, then all the citizen arrester requires is reasonable suspicion and the McMichael's easily had that so the attempted arrest was legal and Arbery is the guilty party in attacking the younger McMichael and attempting to take his gun and presumably use it on he and his father.

    As has already been said by some great criminal defense and civil rights attorneys but juries should not be left to their own devices in interpreting the applicable laws. The judge should have instructed them on how to interpret the law and should have applied the concept of lenity to favor the defense given the contradictions and ambiguities in the citizens arrest law.

    Replies: @Curmudgeon

    , @Dr. X
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The actions of the McMichaels -- chasing after a suspected trespasser on someone else's property to make an armed citizen's arrest -- might have been unwise, but they hardly constituted "malice murder" worthy of guaranteed life without parole.

    They may have been liable for creating a situation where an armed confrontation could end badly, but in a sane world that's manslaughter at worst.

    The biggest mistake McMichael made was forgetting that he was no longer a cop and no longer indemnified by his department -- and engaging in a pursuit for which he could be held personally liable.

    That being said, what the court did to Bryan was absolutely obscene. The unarmed Bryan was found guilty of murder simply for being present and taking a cell phone video of the incident.

    The Arbery case was not cut-and-dried for either side. However it was clear that the defendants were crucified by the court and given the maximum becuse they were white and the deceased was black.

    , @Exile
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I don't care to live in Fred's society.

    Fred's OK with a society in which Armed Robbery can prey on a neighborhood and get away with it. He's OK with punishing citizens doing the job that police won't do.

    I'm not going into the Talmudic weeds re: what Georgia law required. If Georgia law mandated this result, Georgia law is an ass. It's a dubious proposition - multiple prosecutors declined to charge the McMichaels.

    Anti-White media drove the eventual prosecution and the result.

    I haven't read Fred's posts for a long time because of his dishonest contrarian BS like this. If he's now going to sh*t up threads outside his containment area, it's a disservice to Unz readers who've learned to distrust and avoid his low-effort trolling.

    Fred, if you have something to say, especially on a subject that's somewhat off-topic to this thread, you have a corner here at Unz to p*ss in. Say it there and stop shilling for attention in Derb's space.

    , @The Old Philosopher
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You hit the nail on the head with every point.

    Anyone thinking otherwise in agreement with the author of this trash is proving their synapses have have terminaslly shortcircuited.

  • In my decades as galley slave in Washington’s journalistic sludge fleets, I occasionally encountered conspiracy theories, such as the Second Shooter who got JFK, and that FDR intentionally let the Japs blow up Pearl Harbor, and of many sightings of alien space ships. Various psychic oddities dwelling in the crevices of the Potomac Rome worried...
  • An unspecified number of trained demolitionists of unspecified origin, disguised in an unspecified manner, planted a large but unspecified quantity of explosive of unspecified origin over an unspecified number of days or months in an unspecified number of places of unspecified nature (supporting elements, perhaps) concealing both the explosives and their planting thereof from thousands of employees in an unspecified manner, the explosives being connected for detonation in an unspecified way. Otherwise it all seems clear. The explosive was either thermite, which isn’t, or nanothermite, which I have never encountered in relation to demolitions. I have never seen any indication of the slightest technical grasp of the field. How many are familiar with pentaerythritol tetranitrate, 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, gamma-aminobutyric acid, salvarsan, or 1,4-diphenyl-polywannacrackerene? Why does nobody answer the question of how it was done?

    • Replies: @Weaver
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The answer is the mainstream narrative you believe in is impossible, ergo the conspiracy theory that explosives were planted. What we know as fact is that your belief is impossible, ergo something else, even if unknown, happened. Respectfully.

    Write on AMLO’s view of Covid vaccines and Ivermectin, please. That would be wonderful to read about, if you happen to be idle. CELAC too.

    , @nokangaroos
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Let´s see ... GABA is a neurotransmitter, Salvarsan was too good for the
    Tuskegee airpersons, and I doubt they gave you C-4 (1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazinane).
    In both the army (assault engineer) and the profession
    (mining geology) things that go boom were my daily bread - do not try to scare
    your grandmother with your bodily nakedness.
    I have not used nukuler explosives (duh) but have a reasonable idea what such
    cratering looks like.

    - As in the Beirut harbor case no clear evidence of, erm, help is visible
    in the videos (nukes I rule out in both cases); then again, it wouldn´t be expected.
    The only thing that raises one eyebrow is the symmetrical pulverization
    (i.e. the things did not topple) of the central column at the beginning of the
    collapse - for which pancaking is not implausible
    (inside the column would be the logical point to place (shaped) charges,
    but that´s not as easy as it sounds and there´s no reason for the column to go
    at the height of the impact).
    All the rest can be safely left to gravity (cf. G.K.Chesterton, "The Hammer of God").
    The heat is part from the collapse, part from unlikely combustibles (Al, Mg, Zn, Be).

    Nothing to see here - but the circumstances are still damning :D

    , @gar manarnar
    @Frederick V. Reed

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvC5A3K-0fY

    , @Rex Little
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Why does nobody answer the question of how it was done?
     
    Not an answer, but another question: could it be that the towers were designed in such a way that, if one started to fall over sideways, forces would be triggered which would make it collapse into its own footprint instead? I don't know if it's possible to design a building that way--perhaps a civil engineer or architect could weigh in--but if it is possible, I'd expect a New York skyscraper to be so built. The last thing you want is for it to topple into other buildings like a domino.

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    , @dimples
    @Frederick V. Reed

    This recent paper seems reasonably specific:



    Investigating the Mechanics of Destruction at the Twin Towers on 9/11:
    The Case for Propelled Demolition
    By Wayne H. Coste, PE

    http://www.scientistsfor911truth.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/WTC_Propelled_Demolition_Paper.pdf

    , @Wizard of Oz
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Congratulations Fred. Your casual contempt - well disrespect at least - has really brought out Ron's dimwitted, semiliterate groupies who repeat over and over agan the most elementry errors (free fall, footprints, steel melting come immediately to mind) and share blustering absurdities. And you've even got to Ron. Mind you on the central lot of nonsense about how the WTC buildings came down it would have made sense to be more careful. I don't think it is claimed that there would have been collapses without fire weakening of more than the outer frame.

    Replies: @Ron Unz

    , @Nate D.
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred, I don’t know anything about demolishing skyscrapers but I can spot a logical fallacy when I see one. You are claiming that either a very complicated and hard to conceal installation of explosives brought the towers down or it was entirely the result of two aircraft flying into them: A or B. When in fact it’s either a question of A or A+B, that is, whether the shearing force of impact and the subsequent fire were sufficient to neatly destroy the buildings. I don’t have an informed opinion on that, however, if I were making a point to discredit all conspiracy theorist I wouldn’t begin with a very sloppy argument.

    You wrote your column out of animus for conspiracy theorists - well I don’t like you either. I think for the sake of balance Ron Unz should allow me to write an article psycho-analyzing aged, profane but pompous writers.

    , @anon
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Why does nobody answer the question of how it was done?
     
    the advent of life

    the advent of time

    the advent of existence

    is there anyone here that can explain how it was done?

    if not, does that mean that none of it is real?

    I once killed a rat without anyone's knowledge, and did so in a peculiar way, does the fact that no living human knows how, mean I didn't do it?

    How did Jeffrey Epstein die? If no one can explain exactly how, does that mean we must all accept the official narrative, no matter how preposterous?

    Ditto Seth Rich, Gary Webb, and God knows how many others..

    I suppose if I don't accept the official account of Michael Hastings' death, it can only mean I'm wearing a tin foil hat, huh Fredo?

    What a rotten soul you've sold to the devil for your thirty shekels. He was gypped.

    Replies: @Gordon K. Shumway

  • It seems that there are to be no dissenting voices on the twentieth anniversary of 9-11. Even film director Spike Lee was forced by media outcry to edit out of his documentary mini-series the half-hour dedicated to skeptics of the official version of the event. Thus the citizenry has been saved from “a bog of...
  • Serious journalists dismiss Truthers because they are silly cranks, like fifty or sixty other varieties of onspiracy theorists who believe that there are microchips in vaccines, space aliens in Roswell,FEMA, black helicopters, and (no doubt) dinosaurs being grown by the Pentagon as bio weapons. The cranks, being ignored, see this as further proof of conspiracy.

    • Replies: @annamaria
    @Frederick V. Reed

    How many of your favorite "serious journalists" have a degree in structural engineering and metallurgy? https://www.voltairenet.org/article213935.html


    To date, there is no physical explanation for the collapse of three of the World Trade Center towers onto their own footprints (i.e. vertically). The Twin Towers were hit by two planes, but were not shaken. ... A third tower was destabilised by the fall of the first two to its side. It too collapsed, not laterally, but vertically.

    It should be noted that no explanation was given for the lateral explosions heard by the firemen and widely filmed, nor for the vertical beams that were severed and not melted; two pieces of evidence attesting not to an accidental but to controlled demolition.

    It should also be noted that no collapse of skyscrapers has ever been observed, either before or after 9/11, following a large-scale fire... and that no one has learned the lessons of this attack and therefore changed the way such buildings are constructed to prevent such a catastrophe. Finally, the photographs taken by firefighters of "pools" of molten steel and those taken by FEMA of the melting rocks in which the foundations were built are inexplicable according to the official version.
     

    You are free to demonstrate your expertise in engineering and materials science.
    , @W
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Serious journalists dismiss Truthers because they are silly cranks, like fifty or sixty other varieties of onspiracy theorists who believe that there are microchips in vaccines, space aliens in Roswell,FEMA, black helicopters, and (no doubt) dinosaurs being grown by the Pentagon as bio weapons. The cranks, being ignored, see this as further proof of conspiracy
     
    Of course, and by "serious" you mean journalists that go along with the insoc narrative in the first place.

    Circular reasoning.

    Microchips in vaccines, dinosaurs being grown in the pentagon are on the same level of Dick Cheney refusing to let jets intercept the "highjacked" planes.

    Riiiight. You people(see post 44) know exactly what you're doing when you pull this crap.

    How did fire make the twin towers explode?

    Why did Cheney refuse to intercept the planes?
    https://youtu.be/bDfdOwt2v3Y


    PS

    I just found a incredible resource for 911 truthers

    https://archive.org/details/911/day/20010911#/

    You can watch media response to 911 in real time as it was.

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    , @White Elephant
    @Frederick V. Reed


    "Serious journalists dismiss Truthers because they are sill cranks"
     
    Really?
    From what I've seen, serious journalists (who don't exist, well, that is those who are investigative ones) do not debate truthers because they end up getting way in over their heads on the subject matter, with people who clearly know what they're talking about.
    To sum up the serious journalists - "I'm right. You're wrong"

    What we see, today, in the msm is one way traffic. There's no left-right debates and the closest we get is the communist left debating classic British liberalism - see anyone debating Jordan Peterson. So essentially it's all one way, emotional nonsense being surgically dissected, about women, BLM, white privilege, gender pronouns and nothing else worth watching.

    You won't see debates on 9/11 between truthers and msm whores/politicians/shills for tptb, just as you won't see any debates on the holocaust, Hitler and all other important events of our time, that evidence clearly proves are contradictory to the official narrative. Why? Because not only will the msm whores/politicians/shills for tptb be ripped to pieces, it will actually get the public thinking for once in their lives. It will make a lot of people very angry and tptb do not want that happening, while in the middle of their western people genocide masquerading as covid vaccination. They may very well start asking important questions on the vaccinations before they manage their coup de grâce - the vaccination of 12 & overs soon to be followed by under 12's, succeeding in sterilizing the world's population and fulfilling the script of 'Children of Men'.
    , @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Mr. Reed, you write columns for Ron Unz, whose friend you also claim to be. Are you really sure you want to go on record rather gratuitously calling your friend and boss a "silly crank"?


    My two most important conclusions are that the Israeli Mossad was probably behind both the JFK Assassination and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
     
    --Ron Unz ( https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-mossad-assassinations/?showcomments#comment-3683057 )
    , @Olivier1973
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Serious journalists dismiss Truthers because they are silly cranks
     
    You mean that the "serious journalists" (who dismiss Truthers) are "silly cranks", don't you?

    Both parts of that sentence have the same subject, haven't they?
    , @DaveE
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Yer as naked as a jaybird, Shlomo.

    , @anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    good to see Tokyo Rose has weighed in

    Replies: @Franklin Ryckaert

    , @cortesar
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Reed, disingenuous a*hole
    watch this video which shows a side by side comparison of building 7 and a similar building controlled demolition and explain using laws of physics particularly the free fall.

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2drbj7

    , @Franklin Ryckaert
    @Frederick V. Reed

    "...(c)onspiracy theorists who believe that there are microchips in vaccines, space aliens in Roswell,FEMA, black helicopters, and (no doubt) dinosaurs being grown by the Pentagon as bio weapons..."

    Typical strawman tactic.

    , @Mevashir
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Ferd Reedovitch strikes(out) again.

    , @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I would like to nominate Fredo V. Reed for the Walter Duranty Unz Pulitzer prize.

    In the 1930s, as the Jewish Bolsheviks were busy imposing a state-enforced starvation famine on millions of Ukraine's most successful farmers and their families, Duranty was sent there by the ((NYT)) to tell the world lies about the famine. He could see with his own eyes the unimaginable suffering and death and misery, as millions of the regions best and brightest were systematically starved to an excruciating death, (because they were the best and brightest), Duranty wrote that the whole thing was a nothing burger, and there was only a bit of disgruntled farmers who were too selfish to share what they produced.

    He lied about the worst genocide of the 20th century, for lucre and perks, and won a Pulitzer prize!

    Well, today the spirit of the Walter Duranty Unz Prize in Whornalism most foul, has obviously been honed to a fine art by the Whorenalist of the Century ~ Fredo V. Reed!

    In the last century, Duranty used his skills to shill for the world's most callous and cruel ethnically megalomaniacal, genocidal fiends on the planet. The ones who caused the Boer war and Russian- descent into hell- Revolution, and both World Wars, and all the consequent suffering.

    In this century, it is none other than Fredo V. (for venal), Reed, who is the most shameless and obeisant liar and shill for the fiends on the world's stage, who (obviously) perpetrated 9/11 in order to plunge the world into Eternal Wars for Israel, and all of it for a few contemptuously tossed shekels.

    Consider..

    Has Fredo ever even mentioned the USS Liberty?

    This is a guy who writes about wars and their folly for a living. And often uses his poison pen to deconstruct the American service member, (like the ones on the Liberty), for their crass ineptitude.

    But to this day, I don't think Fredo has even heard of the USS Liberty, or the men who were murdered by ((cowards)) on that day.

    So congratulations Fredo!

    That is really some remarkable accomplishment.

    You are now in a very elite group of notable personages.

    Walter Duranty, of the 20th Century. And now Fredo V. Reed, for the 21st!

  • A nation is made of race, ethnicity, culture, and identity. Ernst Renan called it a “daily plebiscite.” He said a nation needs a “common will in the present,” and the wish to perform great deeds in the future. Identity is a feeling, but feelings, emotions, personalities and beliefs come from the blood. We don’t create...
  • This is nauseating and very, very American moral preening.
    Hood is all upset, oh poor thing, about the savages who did Nine Eleven, a pinprick compared to what American savages did to Iraq, or Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela—all of course for democracy, human rights, goodness, niceness, look at me how good we are. We must inflict our virtue, our essential rightness, on peoples who haven´t asked for it, and if we kill half of them in doing it, well, you can´t get democracy on the cheap. Tinpot patriotism, amore propre, Boy Scout thinking. Very, very, American.

    • Replies: @AnonFromTN
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Remarkably to the point (I ran out of my “agree” allowance).

    , @Rurik
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Hood is all upset, oh poor thing, about the savages who did Nine Eleven, a pinprick compared to what American savages did to Iraq, ....
     
    um..

    same savages did both, for the record

    http://www.greanvillepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/neocon_monsters.jpg

    Replies: @GeneralRipper

    , @Anonimko
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Missed your name in my previous comment.

    , @Greta Handel
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Mr. Hood’s not alone. The race-baiting columnists on this website are overwhelmingly Exceptional! when it comes to their Uncle Sam. Mr. Derbyshire is an obvious example, while Mr. Sailer likely knows better but won’t go beyond “Invade the World, Invite the World.”

    This isn’t merely coincidental. Their shtick, after all, is to reassure readers that whites are better than blacks and browns, including those interrogated at Abu Ghraib or droned at the weddings and funerals. Deeper thinking about “foreign policy” they leave to Pat Buchanan.

    Replies: @GeneralRipper

    , @pyrrhus
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Yes, and Hood swallows the standard stories about 9-11 and Bin Laden, hook, line and sinker...I'm curious as to his evidence that Bin Laden was killed, given the fact that the "body" was thrown in the ocean to avoid the problem of its identity....

  • Promising freedom, democracy and prosperity, America brings widespread destruction and death, but it’s all good, for the war profiteers. Since each Uncle Sam misadventure is a bonanza for them, the more, the merrier. Bring it on! On April 21st, 1975, I was still in Saigon. As the Vietnam War neared its end, there was much...
  • Having, stupidly,been a Marine in that wr, and later a correspondent covering it, having lived in the slums of Truong Minh Key among people I rather liked and having come out in the same incompetent evacuation a sLinh I can attest that he is exactly right. Especially about the Support Our Troops lous with thir ignorance.

    • Replies: @Druid
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Now you write crap!

  • I have to begin this column by admitting that “Biden” (note: when in quotation marks, I refer to the “collective Biden”, not the clearly senile man) surprised me: it appears that my personal rule-of-thumb about US Presidents (each one is even worse than his predecessor) might not necessarily apply in “Biden’s” case. That is not...
  • The hypergalactic hyperpower cannot intimidate North Korea, knows better than to attack Iran, cannot get China out of its islands, has no hope of retrieving the Crimea, doesn’t dare recognize Taiwan as a country or say clearly that it will defend it, just got run out of Afghanistan, cannot get its way in Syria, lost on Nordstream II, lost on S-400 in Turkey, seems about to pull out of Iraq, with the trade deficit with China and the national debt competing to see which grows the fastest, pits its military against China’s economy. Looks like a retreat to me, leaving the choice between war and second fiddle.

    • Replies: @HeebHunter
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You forgot, the amerimutts couldnt even organinze an op in Venezuela without being busted by some fisherman.

    But they sure did show us whatsup in Haiti after they did a drive by on the late President of the struggling island, and made a great, publicly known escape to the taiwanese embassy.

    Lol

  • Question 1-- Your views on the Coronavirus and Covid vaccine are very different than those of Unz Review writers, like Paul Craig Roberts, CJ Hopkins, Israel Shamir and myself. In your estimation, what are the main areas of disagreement and why do you think your analysis is more probable than theirs? Ron Unz-- I'd also...
  • For what it’s worth, methinks Ron by a wide margin got the better of the debate. Rationality vs. ideology. As a data point, I have a gringo friend in Chengdu who, after China said the virus was contained, reported via VPN that the city was completely back to normal. No masks, no restrictions, everything open.

    • Replies: @geokat62
    @Frederick V. Reed


    For what it’s worth, methinks Ron by a wide margin got the better of the debate.
     
    Frederico pipes in just in time to sing in two-part harmony with Ron: “Trusta Big Pharma, goy! What could possibly go wrong?”

    And for the icing on the cake, he reassures us by implication: my gringo fren says “take the jab, you’ll be glad!”

  • As Ron Unz has noted occasionally in his columns, mainstream publications as one refused to publish Sidney Schanberg’s exposé on John McCain: his unsavory acts as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam and his efforts to bury the evidence of P.O.W.s left behind after the war. A “parallel universe,” Unz called the article. It cut straight across...
  • Scha“Nov. 11, 1992, Dolores Alfond, the sister of missing airman Capt. Victor Apodaca and chair of the National Alliance of Families, an organization of relatives of POW/MIAs, testified at one of the Senate committee’s public hearings. She asked for information about data the government had gathered from electronic devices used in a classified program known as PAVE SPIKE.
    ▲▼The devices were motion sensors, dropped by air, designed to pick up enemy troop movements. Shaped on one end like a spike with an electronic pod and antenna on top, they were designed to stick in the ground as they fell. Air Force planes would drop them along the Ho Chi Minh trail and other supply routes. The devices, though primarily sensors, also had rescue capabilities. Someone on the ground—a downed airman or a prisoner on a labor gang —could manually enter data into the sensor. All data were regularly collected electronically by U.S. planes flying overhead. Alfond stated, without any challenge or contradiction by the committee, that in 1974, a year after the supposedly complete return of prisoners, the gathered data showed that a person or people had manually entered into the sensors—as U.S. pilots had been trained to do—no less than 20 authenticator numbers that corresponded exactly to the classified authenticator numbers of 20 U.S. POWs who were lost in Laos. Alfond added, according to the transcript, “This PAVE SPIKE intelligence is seamless, but the committee has not discussed it or released what it knows about PAVE SPIKE.”
    L :et’s look at this.
    First, Pave Spíke was not a sensor at all, but an LD pod–laser designator–and had no relation whatever to air-dropped sensors. Laser pods do not gather information.
    Wikipedia: “The Westinghouse AN/ASQ-153\AN/AVQ-23 Pave Spike is an electro-optical laser designator targeting pod used to direct laser-guided bombs to target in daylight, visual conditions. It contained a laser boresighted to a television camera, which displayed its image on a cockpit screen.”
    The program the MIA/POW folk thought they were thinking about was Igloo White:
    Wikipedia: Operation Igloo White
    This was the operation that dropped sensors. The Wikipedia entry is far too long to cut and paste, but you might find it informative.
    Second: “…the committee has not discussed it or released what it knows about PAVE SPIKE.” The MIA/POW people were thus asking the Senate committee about data collected by devices that did not collect data. That the committee did not question this curious request suggests that they knew no more about Pave Spike and Igloo White than did the MIA/POW people. This too is not surprising. Senators seldom know anything about technology, much less that of classified military programs.
    Third, the idea that Igloo White sensors contained data links of some sort for downed flyers is silly. The long, technically detailed Igloo White Wikipedia entry makes no mention of such rescue gear. In the diagram below of an Igloo White sensor, the absence of keyboard and of commo circuitry is evident.

    Since the “rescue gear” did not exist, the story of the twenty PoWs or pilots and their authentication number is false.
    Fourth, “…a year after the supposedly complete return of prisoners…” The batteries in the sensors lasted less than two months (see Igloo White Wikipedia entry) making the claim that signals were received a year later false.
    Fifth, signals from the sensors had to be picked up by orbiting EW birds and relayed to NKP in Thailand. A year after the prisoners were supposedly returned, how many American electronic warfare planes were orbiting over the Trail?
    The story of the twenty POWs is clearly a fabrication, not a mistake. Having been intimately involved in the MIA fracas, and knowing how journalism works in Washington, I will speculate with some confidence that an interested party fed the PAVE SPIKE-rescue-capability story to the MIA people who, being unfamiliar with military technology (often housewives) believed it because they wanted to believe it. Today, fact-checking a story like this takes a few minutes on Google, but the MIA people had neither the internet nor, it seems, the inclination. The paragraphs quoted at the beginning of this email contain other highly dubious claims but, since they cannot be demonstrated with a link, I pass over them.

    nberg, whom I knew, was a technical illiterate and apparently did no fact-checking. E.g.,

  • Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: DUNKIRK: “People Should Be Hung From Lampposts, They Should Be Burned Alive, For What They’ve Done To Britain” Last week saw the publication in Britain of a report from something called the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. This commission was set up last year by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson,...
  • Everything Derbyshire says is true, but his pretending to be an American annoys me. He is an Englishman, born and raised. I have lived for almost twenty years in Mexico, and could easily get citizenship. Would anyone then regard me as a Mexican? I would not, Mexicans would not, and Americans would not. Derbyshire rails against non-whites yet has brought a non-white wife into America and fathered two half-white children. This does not bother me even slightly since I greatly like the Chinese and do not doubt that his kids are good citizens. But the sheer hypocrisy grates.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Everything Derbyshire says is true, but his pretending to be an American annoys me. He is an Englishman, born and raised. I have lived for almost twenty years in Mexico, and could easily get citizenship. Would anyone then regard me as a Mexican?

    I would if you renounced your American citizenship.

    You can be a White Mexican transplant. Racially you would still be White but Mexicans can be any race.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    , @Jameson
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Way to totally miss the entire concept of being an American. Good one. Thanks for the laugh. Funny, but that people don't know what it means to be an American is actually our problem.

    , @Colin Wright
    @Frederick V. Reed

    'Everything Derbyshire says is true, but his pretending to be an American annoys me. He is an Englishman, born and raised. I have lived for almost twenty years in Mexico, and could easily get citizenship. Would anyone then regard me as a Mexican? I would not, Mexicans would not, and Americans would not. Derbyshire rails against non-whites yet has brought a non-white wife into America and fathered two half-white children. This does not bother me even slightly since I greatly like the Chinese and do not doubt that his kids are good citizens. But the sheer hypocrisy grates.'

    Identity is also -- within limits -- also a matter of how one chooses to identify.

    I'm reminded of English bigots of a hundred years ago who would sneer at second-generation foreign Jews referring to 'we Englishmen...'

    Well, it could get a bit farcical. But America and Airstrip One really are pretty similar. Basically, if I go there and act exactly as if I'm at home, there'll be the odd bump and hiccup -- but it'll work (just don't try driving.)

    I'm not exactly outraged at Derbyshire coming to see himself as American. It's fine with me. He can even have an Asian wife. Indeed, somewhat oddly, that makes him more American, not less. It would seem stranger if he still identified as English.

    In any case, the fight is getting serious. Past a point, I'm going to make common cause with anyone who's close enough. We need to win, not stay intellectually pure.

    Replies: @3g4me

    , @Miro23
    @Frederick V. Reed


    I have lived for almost twenty years in Mexico, and could easily get citizenship. Would anyone then regard me as a Mexican? I would not, Mexicans would not, and Americans would not.
     
    That's the point.

    Fred's status is presumably "Long term foreign resident" (without the right to vote), which is how it should be because he's not Mexican (it's their national home - not his). There's nothing "racist" about it.

    However, it doesn't in any way mean that he can't make a good life there, contribute, pay taxes and generally enjoy being there. I would guess that lots of Americans don't know that they (and their families), would probably have a better life/opportunities in places like Uruguay, Peru or Chile than they do in the US.

    They'd need to learn Spanish - but that's not too difficult - and South America isn't organized against white people, plus it's mostly Christian.
    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed

    There's the matter of genetics, and there's the matter of assimilation. Mr. Derbyshire has assimilated very well in the 25 or more years he's been here compared to lots of other Europeans. I would say that the British are a special case who ought to be the quickest to assimilate due to things like the original US having been created by the British people.

    For his Chinese wife, it was probably a long time before she was close to assimilated. The kids are undoubtably very well assimilated due to the influence of their Dad and not living in a Chinatown or LA Chinese suburb. Assimilation works in small numbers, a family, wife, an occasional ex-pat here and there. Even for the closest of peoples genetically it doesn't work in large numbers though.

    Mr. Derbyshire rails against the large numbers. Yes, his wife is part of these large numbers, but then fiance/marriage visas are not a big proportion of the numbers of immigration visas, especially after you subtract out all the fraudulent ones. I also reckon that he did not see the importance of this immigration issue way back in the mid-1990s.

    Lay off, Mr. Reed. You are both good writers, but I get a lot more truth from John Derbyshire's writing than from yours.

    Replies: @Chinaman, @Rex Little

    , @vinteuil
    @Frederick V. Reed


    ...Derbyshire...pretending to be an American annoys me. He is an Englishman, born and raised. I have lived for almost twenty years in Mexico, and could easily get citizenship. Would anyone then regard me as a Mexican? I would not, Mexicans would not, and Americans would not...
     
    An Englishman of The Derb's generation is way, way closer to an American of the same generation than Fred Reed is to a Mexican. That's just a dumb comparison.

    Derbyshire rails against non-whites...
     
    Really? He does? I read just about everything The Derb writes, but I've never known him to write anything that could be fairly described that way...

    ...yet has brought a non-white wife into America and fathered two half-white children...the sheer hypocrisy grates.
     
    Hypocrisy is, by definition, practicing the opposite of what one avows

    So where's the hypocrisy, here?
    , @Al Ross
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Multiple Numerical Mass Immigration v Singular Personal Choice ?

    The heart wants what the heart wants and as Tony Soprano added , "the dick wants what the dick wants".

  • My illness is mostly over, I think. There’s still residual coughing, weak, tremulous breathing and difficulty sleeping, but I’ve been able to walk for miles each day, a restorative act that gets my blood flowing, and, of course, seeing people lifts my spirits. Here in Tirana, there are enough benches and green spaces to rest,...
  • @Jim Christian
    Fred reed let the VA fuck with his eyes. He had his 100% disability from VA plus SSDI anyway, but kept going back to the VA. I wouldn't let the VA do a toenail trimming let alone eye care. The VA is the Frank Burns of medical care and every vet knows it. Why not Fred?

    Replies: @Frederick V. Reed

    I have never used the VA, only military hospitals.

    • Replies: @Franz
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Military hospitals are a world away from VA, agree.

    An emergency situation that put me into Portsmouth Naval Hospital gave me a look at the most professional medicos America has produced, but then I was on active duty at the time.

    A friend going to a nearby VA facility in '18 did mention to me that the Trump administration was trying to upgrade and improve veterans facilities. He said they were getting better, at least the one he was going to. If so, under Joe/Kamal I'm sure any progress will all be erased. But I have no firsthand knowledge if Trump was cracking the whip or not.

    , @Jim Christian
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Sorry Fred, I thought the guy that pulled sutures off your cornea wrecking it for life was a VA doc. Did they at least throw ya the 100 percent?

  • VIDEO VERSION In this, the eighth annual 9/11 Physics Debate sponsored by ANETA.org, François Roby, associate professor in physics at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, and German nuclear physicist Heinz Pommer join American engineer Joseph Olson, PE to advance the 9/11 nuclear demolition hypothesis. Since all three agree that the official...
  • No. It was Roswell escapee space aliens aided by malignant poltergeists. Why don’t people admit this?

  • By now, you have all heard it. Here is the official transcript: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Director of National Intelligence came out with a report today saying that Vladimir Putin authorized operations during the election to under -- denigrate you, support President Trump, undermine our elections, divide our society. What price must he pay? PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN:...
  • All true and well said. But why do we always say “defense” spending when the correct word is “military”?

    • Replies: @Franklin Ryckaert
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The correct word is offense.

    , @Biff
    @Frederick V. Reed

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331559473_Language_as_an_oppressive_device_in_Orwell's_1984

  • This is the third book by Andrei Martyanov that I am reviewing, the first one was “Book Review - Losing Military Supremacy: the Myopia of American Strategic Planning by Andrei Martyanov”, while the second one was “Book Review: Andrei Martyanov's The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs”. I also interviewed Andrei about this second volume here....
  • Wildly overpriced, no Kindle edition. I would like to have been able to read it..

    • Replies: @Andrei Martyanov
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Wildly overpriced, no Kindle edition. I would like to have been able to read it..
     
    All my books had Kindle editions. This one will too. It is not released yet. Once it hits the stores so will Kindle format.
  • On Monday England was given an indication as to how it will eventually get out of lockdown. Gradually, and in very careful stages, seems to be the answer. We are in our third lockdown, and have staggered through two false dawns. What is different now is that vaccinations have been completed on 17.7 million citizens...
  • Mr. Thompson does not take into account that the virus does not exist, that it is a tool of depopulation, that the nanoparticles to reprogram our DNA sometimes blocs the implantation of Gates’ microchip, and anyway HCQ and vitamin D cure it. He obviously is working for Big Pharma.

    • Agree: Agent76
    • Troll: Dumbo
  • In this part of the world, the first side effect of vaccines has been political. Europe’s nations are now competing to get vaccinated, and the ructions have been considerable. From the start, the UK took a vaccine friendly stance. Early on it decided that vaccination was the long-term solution, and all else was merely a...
  • Even though I spend a lot of time on the web, this is the first intelligent, informed, mathematically based analysis I have seen by someone who could pass a Rorschach test. Thank you, Mr. Thompson.

    • LOL: Philip Owen
  • 2020 saw 14% more deaths than average, last year in England & Wales and that amounted to seventy-five thousand extra deaths. We here use the Office of National statistics figures, as it gives total weekly deaths, plus also for comparison an average value of corresponding weekly deaths over the previous five years.[1] That compares with...
  • On one hand, the virus does not exist and, on the other, it is a tool of depopulation. These are deep waters. My guess is that, being a federally designed depopulation program, it just doesn’t work.

    While this is all good fun, note that, if there actually is a dangerous virus, encouraging people to ignore it will lead to many deaths. Cockamamie theories about the Grassy Knoll and Roswell hurt nobody. This one can.

    • Replies: @Dumbo
    @Frederick V. Reed


    While this is all good fun, note that, if there actually is a dangerous virus, encouraging people to ignore it will lead to many deaths.
     
    No it won't. Enough with the BULLSHIT. They keep panicking people with hysterical notions that "billions will die" if we don't lock people in their houses or force them to wear masks, or do this or that.

    But where is the freaking evidence of that?

    People are not as stupid as government thinks. If there were indeed "millions of people dying", people would naturally be more careful and stay home for fear of their lives or that of their loved ones.

    But it is not what we see. If you ignore the media and just look around you, you don't see people dying. You see some people who "tested positive" and perhaps has a flu-like disease for a few days. You hear of some old people dying or having complications, but so far I haven't heard of anyone who had that among all my acquaintances in different countries.

    Also, since "asymptomatic transmission" is a myth on the level of "Nazis turned people into soap" (you can check several studies, including a CHINESE one), there is no point in locking up people with no visible symptoms, even if the "virus" is "dangerous". It might be dangerous, but it's not magic. It can't be transmitted by healthy asymptomatic people. Unless what's being tested is something else...

    The "pandemic panic" is almost-entirely created by the media and the medical establishment.

    The lockdown, however, now there is a LOT of evidence that it is harmful, for the economy, for people's mental health, and for their own lives.

    I thought Fred was a libertarian? Ron Paul at least makes some sense.
    , @Ugetit
    @Frederick V. Reed


    On one hand, the virus does not exist and, on the other, it is a tool of depopulation.
     
    What virus doesn't exist? There are apparently several coronaviruses and they've existed for some time. What doesn't exist is a pandemic. Another thing that doesn't exist is a rational, non-political, response to the so called covid-19 virus.

    Anyway, the virus probably is not a direct tool of depopulation, but the vaccine and other related dumbass responses may be the beginning of such a program, but no use arguing with true believers of cockamamie theories of wacko responses to mild viruses.

    Now, go read "Chicken Little." Run, run!

    https://www.worldstory.net/en/stories/chicken_little.html

    Replies: @theMann, @Bill Jones

    , @St-Germain
    @Frederick V. Reed

    My crystal ball is broken. How many deaths are you predicting?

    Replies: @acementhead

    , @daniel le mouche
    @Frederick V. Reed

    First of all, it is not 'federally' designed, but deep-state designed, which is to say worldwide. All governments except perhaps Belarus are in on it.
    And you're saying you believe the CIA version of Kennedy's murder?
    Read 1984 again, you may learn something of how government works.

    , @thotmonger
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Cockamamie overreaction can cause a lot of hurt too. Global lockdown on "behalf" of public health can also be evaluated in these terms:

    --> education for hundreds of millions of children stalled;
    --> national economies derailed plunging hundreds of millions into poverty;
    --> political exploitation including election malfeasance + mass censorship eroding voter confidence, civil liberties... risking if not instigating civil unrest;
    --> vast vaccination mandates w/o clear long term safety data..,

    The negative health effects almost certainly induced in each one of these realms of our society is humungous. Yet dissent alone keeps getting treated as the only risk. Why?

    Replies: @Dumbo

  • Joe Biden says he wants unity. What he does spreads division. Mr. Biden is hardly a radical leftist by today’s standards, but that is because the ground has shifted dramatically. His current positions on immigration, race, and crime are extreme compared to his previous moderation. I believe he won the election because he campaigned as...
  • Do illegal aliens take the jobs of whites, or do white, conservative, Republican employers give them the jobs,knowing they are illegals, to make more money?

    • Replies: @unwoke
    @Frederick V. Reed

    gee, the 'right answer'





    gee, the 'right answer' (i.e. PC) must be "white, conservative, Republican employers" - after all, liberal Democrat employers (just about all big corp.'s now) wouldn't dream of doing that would they? lol

    , @Macumazahn
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Clearly, the answer is "both."

    , @Realist
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Do illegal aliens take the jobs of whites, or do white, conservative, Republican employers give them the jobs,knowing they are illegals, to make more money?
     
    Yes.
    , @MEH 0910
    @Frederick V. Reed

    https://twitter.com/NBCLatino/status/1353790266369564672

    , @MEH 0910
    @Frederick V. Reed

    https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/1364621650780635137


    At the Department of Homeland Security, the phrase “illegal alien” is being replaced with “noncitizen.” The Interior Department now makes sure that mentions of its stakeholders include “Tribal” people (with a capital “T” as preferred by Native Americans, it said). The most unpopular two words in the Trump lexicon — “climate change” — are once again appearing on government websites and in documents; officials at the Environmental Protection Agency have even begun using the hashtag #climatecrisis on Twitter.

    And across the government, L.G.B.T.Q. references are popping up everywhere. Visitors to the White House website are now asked whether they want to provide their pronouns when they fill out a contact form: she/her, he/him or they/them.
     
  • Although hardly suggested by our mainstream media, the officially-reported results demonstrated that our 2020 presidential election was extraordinarily close. All the regular pre-election polls had shown the Democratic candidate with a comfortable lead, but just as had been the case four years earlier, the actual votes tabulated revealed an entirely contrary outcome. According to the...
  • Agreed. Entirely.

    • Agree: atlantis_dweller
    • Thanks: Wizard of Oz
  • Here's what I think is currently going on in our country and across much of the western world. A public health crisis-- that was manufactured and gamed-out before the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China --has been used to short-circuit
  • This is lunatic. On one hand, the fatality rate is close to zero. On the other hand, it is going to depopulate the world. Don’t forget the nano particles that are going to reprogram our DNA.

    • Troll: TheTrumanShow
    • Replies: @Ugetit
    @Frederick V. Reed


    On one hand, the fatality rate is close to zero. On the other hand, it is going to depopulate the world.
     
    The fatality rate of COVID is probably near zero.

    What could depopulate the world is the vaccine.

    The "it" you're referring to are not the same things. COVID and its control are two different things. Did you really need to have this explained to you?
  • Where will Chinese GDP end up: At ~US level, or 2-3x the US level? Very important question - after all, it will determine whether the world will remain unipolar (if China ~= US, the latter will remain dominant thanks to its alliance system and soft power) or "bifurcated" between a US-Western sphere and a Sino-centric...
  • (mean IQ 100 x 2l00,000,000) x tech. ed. Level
    (105 x 1,000,000,000) x tech. ed. level

  • I remember one evening in distant 1991, I was sitting with a few friends in the SAIS cafeteria discussing the future of the United States with a few very smart students, including a Pakistani Army Colonel, a US captain who served on aircraft carriers and a Spanish diplomat: we all agreed that “the system” was...
  • With russian columnists and RT.com enthusiastically supporting Trump, Russiagate people are going to see them as Russian agents, which of course would be false.

    • Replies: @Alfred, @shylockcracy
    @Frederick V. Reed

    RT.com stopped living up to its "question more" motto long ago when it became anti-"conspiracist" to be able to operate in the US/UK market. There was a time where they allowed people to openly question the BS 9/11 script of the US regime for an example. Despite it being an established fact that the regimes dominated by Ziocorporate terrorist globalism conspire to destroy nations, like in Iraq's case, or to spite and attack rivals like the recent OPCW conspiracy against Syria/Russia, allowing the questioning of such things would've inevitably led to questioning other historical points of controversy like the "Holocaust" and the role of Western banksters, industrialists and financiers and Zionist Bolsheviks in setting it all in motion, which is central to the Allied dogma on WW2. All in all, it would harm the Kremlin's policy of "business and partnership" with US/EU, so it's better to let it turn into an open forum for opinions of the fake circus reality show that's US "democracy/elections".

    Replies: @Alfred

  • In early July I wrote a piece entitled “Does the next Presidential election even matter?” in which I made the case that voting in the next election to choose who will be the next puppet in the White House will be tantamount to voting for a new captain while the Titanic is sinking. I gave...
  • If Trump’s control of anarchy in his second term equals that of his first—no control as, for example, he was trapped in the White House while the mob vandalized a statue just across the street and set fire to the church, with later looting and arson being unopposed across the country—we would get better results by electing Tinker Belle. I am not sure the empire is quite as moribund ad I would like. The Empire firmly controls Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Australia, controls Europe nearly as firmly, has forced the world to stop trading with Iran against the wishes of everybody else, keeps Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela in semi-starvation, orders India to stop buying Iranian oil, still may block Nordstream II, successfully ordered England to drop Huawei with Europe looking to follow, confiscated Tictck, forced TSMC to stop selling to China and to build a five nm fab in the US, is crippling SMIC, ordered ASML not to sell seen nm lithography gear to China, commits piracy against Venezuela and murder against Soleimani, pushes NATO further against Russia, seems to have run a successful coup in Bolivia, continues to control the dollar, and so on at length. Perhaps Trump’s trade war till cripple China but it looks equally likely to lose American firms a huge market as China develops it own tech products instead of buying the, and then begins to compete with the US. Brilliant.

    • Thanks: Ann Nonny Mouse
    • Replies: @Harold Smith
    @Frederick V. Reed


    "If Trump’s control of anarchy in his second term equals that of his first—no control as, for example, he was trapped in the White House while the mob vandalized a statue just across the street and set fire to the church, with later looting and arson being unopposed across the country—we would get better results by electing Tinker Belle."
     
    Trump's reticence may be calculated. Perhaps he and his handlers and enablers want to give us a taste of what to expect if Joe Biden is elected.

    I think the same technique was used last time around when in Sept. 2016 Obama gave us a taste of what Clinton's aggressive "foreign policy" would be like by attacking the Syrian army at Deir Ezzor.

    In so doing, Obama drastically increased tensions with Russia creating a WW3 scare. And this may have been the factor that nudged enough Sanders supporters into Trump's camp to give him a narrow margin of victory in three key states, which put him in the white house.

    "The Empire firmly controls Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Australia, controls Europe nearly as firmly, has forced the world to stop trading with Iran against the wishes of everybody else..."
     
    Exactly.
  • George Floyd died in police custody on May 25. Since then, there have been demonstrations in his name in more than 2,000 American cities. There has been so much rioting and looting that at least 200 cities imposed curfews, and 31 states and the District of Columbia called in the National Guard. It would be...
  • Good diagnosis. What is the cure? What specific, concrete policy do we need to follow?

    • Disagree: Ugetit
    • Replies: @GeneralRipper
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You’re not American, Fred.

    Fuck off and be happy in Mexico.

    Thanks in advance.

    Replies: @Biff

    , @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed


    What is the cure? What specific, concrete policy do we need to follow?
     
    None. The situation is self correcting. It's like the VD joke that ends "No operation. Is great waste of money! You wait two, three weeks, they fall off by own self."

    Crude joke, but this is a crude situation. The disease is more money than the US knows what to do with. The cure is poverty -- coming right up.
    , @Ugetit
    @Frederick V. Reed


    What is the cure? What specific, concrete policy do we need to follow?
     
    Who says there is a "cure?"

    What's this "we" business, anyway? What "policy" do rats leaving a sinking ship follow? That policy seems to work for some and if some reports are credible, that's what's happening in many big cities in the US as we type.

    That's one, of many, possible courses an individual can take but it ain't a cure and I doubt if there is one, especially one acceptable to the vast majority.

  • Racism is a lot of things. One thing it is not: A white child, aged five, executed by a black man with a shot to the head, as the tyke rode his bike. Ask the cultural cognoscenti. They’ll tell you: That’s never racism. Otherwise, almost anything involving the perpetually aggrieved black community counts as racism....
  • The Establishment explanation for what occurred in Beirut’s port on August 5th is that the horrific series of explosions that killed hundreds, injured thousands and left hundreds of thousands homeless was a terrible accident that came about due to a multi-faceted failure by Lebanon’s corrupt and incompetent government. Or at least that is the prevalent...
  • This is all vague speculation and blind sourcing. How can a former CIA guy believe that a nuclear attack would not be immmediately recognizable?

    • Replies: @ChuckOrloski
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Hey Fred!

    Am mindful of the supreme Zionist Divide & Conquer strategy.

  • Will mass immigration destroy the GOP? Can our middle-class society survive high immigration levels? Is there any political solution to our current immigration difficulties? Last June the U.S. Census disclosed that non-white births in America were on the verge of surpassing the white total and might do so as early as the end of this...
  • In Washington, no white in his right mind goes into black Anacostia while in Chirilagua, an Hispanic region in suburban Virginia, whites walk and dine with, so far as I no, exactly zero problem. My daughter Emily lives in a nearby Latino region, zero problems. In Chicago, I have encountered a friendly reception in Pilsen, a recently Hispanic region, and in Berwyn, a mostly Mexican middle class region. zero problems. In black Chicago, I wouldnot have come out alive. In LA, hours of walking in East LA, seldom seeing a white face. Zero problems. Hispanics are not blacks. White Nationalist, whose knowledge of other groups seems to come almost entirely from palapting statistic, will probably neve figure thisout.

    • Agree: Tor597
    • Troll: neutral
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    So, all those places are as safe as Mexico?

    Right?

    http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/102010/all_the_cops_in_town_have_quit.jpg

    Replies: @neutral, @Tor597

    , @Tor597
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I agree with Fred.

    If we are to carve out some of the problematic low IQ groups that are known for trouble, shouldn't we send back or block Irish and Italian immigrants from coming to America in addition to Latinos as many white nationalists want to do?

    People used to say the same thing about Italians and the Irish as they are now saying about hispanics but it looks like these lower iq whites did just fine.

    Replies: @Robert Dolan

  • The last few weeks have seen the greatest wave of American urban unrest in two generations. Massive protests, riots, and looting have swept across dozens of our major cities, accompanied by an enormous amount of political vandalism, often targeting monuments to our country's former presidents and other historical figures. Most importantly, powerful elements of our...
  • In my experience, Ron is entirely right. In eighteen years in Mexsico, I have found the people to be friendly, intelligent, perfectly able to read for heaven’s sake, good neighbors, good parents, sending their children to university in large numbers, assuredly including the girls. Steve Sailer’s fantasies notwithstanding, the streets are clean, the doctors competent, the many celebraiions withoutvolence. They have virtually nothing in common with blacks. In my limited time in LA, peraps a month in total in recet years, I have found the Mexican population to be friendly and civil and, to judge by the number frestaurants, even enterpising. Racialists sometimes seem to be uniquely unfamiliar withi heir subject.

    • Replies: @kerdasi amaq
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Grand, but this is not relevant to the question of whether they should be allowed in the United States or not. In my view, only white people can be Americans. Once Americans lose the demographic high ground; you'll see a very different side to these "friendly", "civil" people. However, the complacent s-heads who created this problems in the 1960's; won't have to live very long with the consequences of their complacency.

    Replies: @Franklin Ryckaert

    , @geokat62
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Racialists sometimes seem to be uniquely unfamiliar withi heir subject.
     
    We’re very familiar with our subject. We have seen what has transpired in Bolshevik Russia, in Weimar Germany, and the Rainbow Nation.

    It’s because of this familiarity that we speak out and sound the alarm before our fate, the fate of our children, and the fate of our grandchildren is sealed.

    If we don’t succeed in reversing the damage Jewish Supremacist Organizations have done to the West, our descendants will curse the day we were born.
    , @Pincher Martin
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You found the Mexicans to be intelligent, Fred? Any explanation as to why Mexican populations show that intelligence neither here nor in Mexico? Why they routinely test near the bottom of international comparisons and in the U.S. near the bottom of U.S. groups, and why real-world results show those test scores are valid.

    Yes, Mexicans and other third-world Hispanics aren't blacks. But neither are they whites or East Asians. We don't find many Hispanic engineers, computer programers, doctors, or even business owners beyond those operating struggling Tex-Mex restaurants and mercados that really nobody wants or needs outside the Mexican community.

    Ron likes to talk about the wonderful vibrancy of Hispanics in the Silicon Valley, but that vibrancy is pretty much restricted to janitorial services and those Tex-Mex restaurants you find so emblematic of Mexican entrepreneurship. I can think of many East and Southerners Asians who own and operate the cutting-edge companies in the South Bay and Peninsula; I can't think of single Hispanic who does.

    As for violence in Mexico, are you kidding me? The Mexicans are killing each other off at rates that would make any homicidal American black proud. And many Central American countries outdo even Mexico at killing each other. And the violence is usually quite florid. Why just put a bullet to the head when you can cut off the head? Thank God that violence has until now managed to stay in Mexico and not crossed the border, but it clearly shows what Hispanics in that part of the world are capable of when they put their mind to it.

    , @fnn
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Do you have some theory about what went wrong with the Hispanics of Albuquerque?

    https://twitter.com/gcochran99/status/1285836518028800002

    , @Anonymous Jew
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Remind me, what’s the Mestizo-White SAT gap?

    I have a relative that teaches in a small town (West Coast) public school that has seen a huge influx of Mexican immigrants over the last few decades. Their academic performance is abysmal, to say the least. And this is compared to the local rural White population. This relative has also taught immigrant Chinese - ie this is NOT a language-barrier issue. (Again, national testing stats are clear on this - “let me Google that for you”). And yes, she also says that her Mexican students are overwhelmingly well behaved and very respectful. Fine. But they won’t build a first rate Western economy. I’ll be the first to admit that (drug wars aside) Mexico ain’t that bad, even in my very limited experience as a gringo tourist. But they do not have enough high IQ people for American-level innovation. I worked in the Bay Area for many years. Lots of nice Mexicans, but tech is driven almost exclusively by Whites and high IQ Asians and Hindus. (We had a sole Mexican in accounting, and like 50 making us lunch).

    Mestizos ain’t Black, but they’re not White either.

    , @turtle
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Well, Fred,
    My ophthalmologist, Dr. Mark Schneider, is a graduate of U. of Guadalajara Medical School.
    He has received numerous awards over many years in practice here in SoCal.
    I am about to let him carve on my one "good(?)" eyeball.
    Wish me luck..

    , @Biff
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I see you’re catching a lot of flak for your post, but what others don’t understand, is that there is more than one demographic to the Mexican population; in fact, maybe dozens. The educated middle class Mexican people with deep seated roots in their communities be it Mexico or the U.S.(people you seem to identify with) are a much different demographic group than the poor, severely un-educated, drifting immigrant that so many of your detractors refer too, but this is what racists are inclined to do - they see the racial features and lump all groups into their very narrow understanding of the entire demographic spectrum.

    Until a person lives within that population and learns all the different variables of said society(something that takes years) they have little chance of understanding the dynamics involved. In essence, they don’t know, that they don’t know what they are talking about.

    Replies: @Pincher Martin

  • The Unz Review has been blacklisted by Facebook and Google in apparent retaliation for its articles exploring the COVID-19 bioweapon hypothesis, especially Ron Unz’s blockbuster “American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?” When deep state censors react that way, we may reasonably assume that they have something to hide. By sending such a strong...
  • A matter I would appreciate having discussed: The bioweapons people who would have had to design the virus would have known (a) that it would immediately come back to America on the hundreds of weekly flight, and (B) that America was not prepared to deal with it. Is this an unreasonable question?

    • Replies: @FB
    @Frederick V. Reed


    The bioweapons people who would have had to design the virus would have known...(B) that America was not prepared to deal with it.
     
    Would they have known this...?

    It was just last October that the media breathlessly reported on the first ever 'Global Health Security Index'...which was prepared by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, with 'research' by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)....

    [LOL...who knew that the fish wrapper known as 'The Economist' has an 'intelligence' unit...?]

    https://i.postimg.cc/Z5zKMvnY/Pandemic-Preparedness.jpg

    The US placed in a runaway first place ranking in Epidemic and Pandemic preparedness...

    With mighty Britain close behind...China way down in the pack in 51'st place...

    Here's the snazzy infographic that was prepared for the media...

    https://i.postimg.cc/SsRyMWTd/health-security-index.jpg

    The only 'reasonable' question here is how is even possible for people to be so bloody deluded...?

    Replies: @Parfois1

    , @Herald
    @Frederick V. Reed


    The bioweapons people who would have had to design the virus would have known (a) that it would immediately come back to America on the hundreds of weekly flight, and (b) that America was not prepared to deal with it. Is this an unreasonable question?

     

    The coronavirus SARS outbreak of 2003 was contained within east Asia, likewise the several coronavirus MERS outbreaks did not menace the whole world, so your presumption at (a) is not necessarily valid. Ron Unz deals with this same point at some length in his 21 April article.

    More generally you seem to be asking your questions on the basis that the USG and/or its controllers are persons of sound mind, or that they would even care about the suffering inflicted on the US masses. I would suggest, that by now you ought to have been disillusioned, on both these points and for some considerable time at that.

    , @Sam J.
    @Frederick V. Reed

    "...A matter I would appreciate having discussed: The bioweapons people who would have had to design the virus would have known (a) that it would immediately come back to America on the hundreds of weekly flight, and (B) that America was not prepared to deal with it. .."

    I'll discuss it. The Jews did it and they don't care how many bodies they pile up. They are the only ones that benefit. They punished China for working with Iran, spread it to Iran and got their banking buddies free cash to the tune of trillions.

    s soon as you avail yourself of the possibility of the "idea" that the Jews have a large mass of psychopaths in their population then you begin to see events in a totally different way. I'm not saying every single Jew is a psychopath but I am saying that there is no measurable difference between a bunch of Jews moving to your country and a tribe of psychopaths. This with a little minor study has been the case for thousands of years. It's also been the case that the special pleadings of the Jews are in no way different from psychopaths and their actions are the same also in aggregate.

  • [As noted yesterday, the following essay was written by a reader and commenter who requested the opportunity. In the spirit of the open inquiry and free expression UR is renowned for, its contents are neither endorsed nor condemned by this blog or webzine. On account of the essay's thoughtfulness, though, it has been deemed worthy...
  • Bravo. From years of dealing with HBDers and evolutionists, I know that they simply refuse to engage any question whose answers would call into question their beliefs. Hauteur they do well, lofty silence, name-calling, but they will not look at their contradictions or admit ignorance. The rigidity, at first frustrating, eventually becomes almost amusing and certainly psychologically intriguing.

    • Replies: @Kent Nationalist
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Please could you summarise the article's criticisms of HBD, just to prove you actually read it.

    , @Intelligent Dasein
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I've reached my limit on "Thanks," but thank you for stopping by. This was an Isaiah's Job, and you were specifically among the remnant I had in mind.

    , @VinnyVette
    @Frederick V. Reed

    No logical cohesive theory was put forth by the author! HBD is science not religion or philosophy! Religion and philosophy are not VERIFIABLE! Your comment is as meaningless and pointless as the article! If you are not going to deal with HBD in strictly scientific terms you are not to be taken seriously!

  • After several months of record-breaking traffic our alternative media webzine suffered a sharp blow when it was suddenly purged by Facebook at the end of April. Not only was our rudimentary Facebook page eliminated, but all subsequent attempts by readers to post our articles to the world's largest social network produced an error message describing...
  • For what it is worth, I have posted on the Review numerous pieces denouncing Vdare by name and many others sharply criticizing its racial views. As a very trivial matter, I notice that my entry in the Wikipedia has disappeared, which is as well as it was badly inaccurate.

  • First, let's begin with a few (apparently unrelated) recent news items: The latest US PR disaster in Venezuela shows that the AngloZionist Empire truly is agonizing. While this is hardly the first that that a US "special operation" goes down in an embarrassing failure, but even by US standards this latest disaster in Venezuela is...
  • The Empire’s relative military power declines, but its presence remains. How does that end? Does Washington begin closing bases? That would be a shattering admission that the American wave was receding. Where would it begin? Afghanistan? But the oil lands? How fast would it go, and how far? Will Washington, feeling its fingers flipping, start a big war in desperation?

    • Replies: @Andrei Martyanov
    @Frederick V. Reed


    That would be a shattering admission that the American wave was receding. Where would it begin
     
    It is in several places simultaneously, Fred. But a stunner for me was the fact that after years of struggle the US Navy opted to use Finkantieri's design of what largely is a FREMM frigate and it also opted for Norwegian Kongsberg's Naval Strike Missile (same ol' subsonic better version of Harpoon). This is not your single OTO Melara on Oliver H. Perry FFGs. We are talking here the whole class of most wanted and in demand (operationally) combat ships. Well, that, plus F-35 FUBAR among many.
    , @Biff
    @Frederick V. Reed


    How fast would it go, and how far?
     
    Well, you have to ask yourself? Are you far enough away?
  • My morning newspapers had recently mentioned Facebook's plans to crack down on misinformation related to our ongoing Covid-19 epidemic, and probably like most other readers I just nodded my head. After all, many Americans might die if cranks or pranksters began promoting highly dubious cures to the deadly disease, perhaps even suggesting that people should...
  • A week or so agon a friend sent me a YouTube link to a discussion by a pair of doctors who questioned the wisdom of the federal response and may have spoken about the origin. I donoo’t know because Youtube quickly took the video down. Thus do things happen here in China. The US, I meant to say.

    • Replies: @Peripatetic Commenter
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You can still see it here:

    https://banned.video/watch?id=5ea4994ea881fd00808e95ad

  • Nearly 30,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus during the last two weeks, and by some estimates this is a substantial under-count, while the death-toll continues to rapidly mount. Meanwhile, measures to control the spread of this deadly infection have already cost 22 million Americans their jobs, an unprecedented economic collapse that has pushed our...
  • Would the American biowarfare labs, quite aware of America’s unpreparedness for an epidemic, have loosed in China a virus which they would have known would quickly reach the US with the heavy China-US air trafic well known? Steve Hatfill, at the time of the anthrax scare a friend of minewas then at Ft. Detrick and told me at length about his concern with unreadiness and of his discussions with colleagues on the topic. Such an attack on China would make sense only if the US population were known to be immune. Which, it seems, it isn’t.

    • Replies: @Ilya G Poimandres
    @Frederick V. Reed

    *assuming the decision makers give any fuck for the prolls. Not that Nero was in Rome to watch Rome burn, but as a bad joke - like Nero watching Rome burn!

    , @Tor597
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Not only does it make sense to release this into China fully knowing that America is vulnerable, it is actually a prerequisite for a successful American operation.

    If American was not gravely hurt by Corona Virus there would be only mild interest in taking on China militarily or economically.

    Also, the elites in America aren't harmed at all. They will in fact come out ahead of this since they were bailed out. The stock market was a bubble anyways, but now instead of collapsing and taking the hit they get to blame Corona Virus and get bailed out.

    , @Wizard of Oz
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Hi Fred. Having found you once more in sheer boring common sense mode may I ask for your informed insights into what it would have taken for some totally loose cannon in the US bio warfare/defense community to have achieved what has happened? Your weighting of the probabilities on aspects of the possible scenarios would be of special value. Your starting points would be just one, two, three and four co-conspirators would it not (WAGs not included)? Any more and your probability of running into mundane sanity would be 99% despite the Jim Jones and Waco experiences???

  • All truth-tellers are denounced, and most end up destroyed. Truth seldom serves the agendas of powerful interests. The one historian from whom you can get the unvarnished truth of World War II is David Irving. On the bookjackets of Irving’s books, the question is asked: What is real history? The answer is that real history...
  • The Zionists have repressed Irving’s books by making them available on Amazon, but not in Kindle format, which I need. The exception is The War Path, about which Amazon says:

    From February 1933, when he told his generals in secret of his ambition to conquer the East, to September 3, 1939, when he left the Berlin Chancellery for the Polish front, Adolf Hitler had one obsessive goal – to wage war and achieve German revenge and hegemony.

    If anyone knows where Irving’s book can be found in electronic format, I would be grateful to know where.

    • Agree: Alfred
    • Replies: @Alfred
    @Frederick V. Reed

    If anyone knows where Irving’s book can be found in electronic format, I would be grateful to know where.

    I had the same problem. I am traveling and I cannot carry books around with me.

    I suspect the Zionists have also removed it from all libraries. It is a common tactic.

    On Amazon.com, the first volume is priced at $125 hardcover and $662 paperback. Strange.

    Churchill's War, Volume One : The Struggle for Power (1987)

    Irving went to Imperial College to study physics. Luckily for us, he was unable to remain as he could not afford it. He was obliged to leave without qualifying. So different from that Ferguson scumbag. A different generation with a different set of values.

    Replies: @Jack McArthur

    , @Republic
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You can download Irving's books at
    Library Genesis
    Libgen.is

    Then you can convert the PDF's using
    Calibre to kindle format

    , @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The Internet Archive has all of Irving’s book in PDF format. You can download all of them here:

    https://archive.org/details/DavidIrvingHistorianAndPoliticalPrisonerBorn19381/mode/2up

  • [Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com.] It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and the coronavirus panic has some winners. The stock of Zoom video-conferencing software has been soaring, notwithstanding some bad publicity about its security features, or lack of them. Less well-publicized has been the bonanza for...
  • Derbyshire is an ideological monorail. The evil Chinese put whatshisname in prison, while the US, democratic to the core, would never think of doing such an inhuman thing to, say, Assange, Manning or Snowden, right? How many million peple and how many countries has evil Chin killed and wrecked since, say nineteen sixty-five? China? But that’s all right because America does it to promote democracy and human rights. “Chicom”: This is virtue-signalling Cold War jargon, but anyone with a dictionary can find that China isn’t communist. Human rights? How much difference is there between Xiang Jiang and, say, -america’s black ghettos with up-against-the-wall, spread-your-legs stop-and-frisk? But we are not doing it to control a racial minority. Perish forfend. It’s to protect their rights or something.

    Wind-up toys whether of Left or Right are equally tedious.

    • Agree: Biff, utu, Daniel Chieh
    • Replies: @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You are the tedious one (and I hate comment bickering) Derb has been nothing but a gentleman to you. I trust his learned judgment a million times over your we Todd id, incoherent rants.

    , @Rich
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Do you really believe that in America blacks are being harassed in "ghettos"? Whites don't care about "ghettos", would leave them to the blacks and never look back. The problem is your black criminals leaving the "ghetto" to do mayhem to the law abiding. You should spend a day or two looking into the stats about the enormous number of violent crimes committed by blacks throughout the US, before you start defending them like some lily-White liberal from the 60s who only knew blacks from TV and the movies.

    You can't be the Fred Reed who writes at Unz, that guy at least has a little common sense, or at least I though he did.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Godfree Roberts, @Jeff Stryker

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Mr. Reed, I didn't not mash [AGREE] out of spite, as I just don't think you've read enough John Derbyshire. I think you are partially right, but I also know that he knows a whole lot about China. I have been there 11 times, and spoken to lots of Chinese people frankly. I enjoyed your first 2 columns about what you saw on your recent trip there - those 2 are were some good reporting.

    I am very sorry about your eyesight. I did read your recent column and didn't know what to say yet. No matter how much I disagree, I do think you write well and enjoy writing. I hope you can figure out a way to handle this.

    , @MikeatMikedotMike
    @Frederick V. Reed

    And your straw-hombres are equally tedious, Kiko.

  • Earlier: John Derbyshire Is Still A Coronavirus Agnostic, But He’s Wearing A Mask We all have our inclinations and tendencies, deriving ultimately, I suppose, from genetic predispositions. I was, for example, deeply unsurprised to see that Lady Ann published a fine spirited skeptical piece about Coronavirus on March 25th here at VDARE.com: We'll get no...
  • I have yet to see a single hysterical person. Or hear of one. Here in Mexico you see clerks in masks, hand sanitizer dispensed at entrances to stores, that sort of thing, but everyone is perfectly calm. I grant that I am a bit of a fossil, but from a generation that thought is a good thing to know what words mean. Now telling a dirty joke is violence, reporting a brutal murder is racism, and washing your hands is hysteria. Sigh.

    • Replies: @R.G. Camara
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Please stay in Mexico with all the Mexican rapists and drug dealers you swear don't exist but whom you also think are such harder worker than Americans, ya traitorous bitch.

  • The Corona crisis has exposed our political and media establishments as dysfunctional and possibly dangerous. If the West was, until recently, associated with scientific, analytical, rational and methodical thinking, then not much is left of that Athenian reasoning. Like houses of cards, most of our Western democracies have succumbed to populist decision making that is,...
  • I am puzzled. I have seen no signs of hysteria, unless buy toilet paper in an hysterical enterprise. In Mexico, where I live, people seem normal, though there is much wearingof masks by employees of stores and suchlike.

    Doubters make interesting points, yet…are the reports of trucks carrying large numbers of dead in Italy, of refrigerated trucks being used in New York to supplement morgues normal? Perhaps so. I am no authority. While the media and politicians promote the sensational, do we really believe that the great majority of epidemiologists, scientists all, are knowingly promoting a scare that threatens to cripple economies? Maybe so, but I would expect most scientists to think scientifically. Are the reports os shortages of ventilators false? Perhaps Why did the Chinese respond so drastically to what appears to be little more than normal flu? While theories that governments invented the scare to gain dictatorial powerss such a shortage of Haldol, that policy is being made on the basis of poor information r ring ture. Most confusing.

    • Replies: @A123
    @Frederick V. Reed


    I am puzzled ...
    While the media and politicians promote the sensational, do we really believe that the great majority of epidemiologists, scientists all, are knowingly promoting a scare that threatens to cripple economies?
     
    The "Politically Correct" elite 1% media and DNC Globalist politicians are anti-science. The ability to give or deny research grants gives Globalist politicians huge power to cull and purge legitimate scientists. The surviving grant recipients are those willing to return the preordained results.

    The Globalist media then steps in to complete the cycle of "++GoodSpeak". Compliant grant recipients are selected to ensure that "TrueSpeak" science is never given the opportunity to challenge Globalist theology.

    George Orwell/Leni Riefenstahl openly predicted/explained the propaganda tools that the DNC Elite Globalists have adopted to suppress the truth.

    PEACE 😷
    , @NoseytheDuke
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I am puzzled by your puzzlement. Stocking up on toilet paper in Mexico, of all places, would seem to be as prudent as remembering not to breathe underwater.


    I am no authority.
     
    Finally, something from Fred we can trust.

    Why did the Chinese respond so drastically to what appears to be little more than normal flu?
     
    The Chinese, being an intelligent people, understand that the US is waging an undeclared war against them and feared that things had progressed from propaganda and economic to major bio-warfare so they responded appropriately it seems.

    Most confusing.
     
    Your confusion has been evident from reading your articles for quite some time now so I stopped reading them. Have a nice day.
    , @George
    @Frederick V. Reed

    "Doubters make interesting points, yet…are the reports of trucks carrying large numbers of dead in Italy,"

    The argument for the lockdown is not the small number of deaths but the growth rate coupled with the claim that hospital ventilator machines are a kind of choke point.

    Here are some back of the envelope calcs that imply so far the death numbers are not unusual.

    The CIA says estimates that there will be 10.7 x 62,402,659 /1000 = 667,708 in 2020 using I assume pre corona data.
    62,402,659 (July 2020 est.)
    10.7 deaths/1,000 population (2020 est.)
    https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/it.html

    To date in Italy it is claimed 10,000 Covid deaths and probably more like 5000 when the trucks claim was made. So maybe covid resulted at that point in 1% extra deaths.

    There was no need to bring in the military to move a few extra corpses except maybe the lockdown or hysteria meant they could not hire properly refrigerated trucks.

    LiveLeak is not considered reliable but this post shows the trucks and claims 30 trucks carried 70 coffins.
    https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9daF8_1584588554

    NYC has so far had 517 total covid deaths. The refrigerated trucks might be in preparation for what is to predicted to come, but they have not been filled.

    https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary-deaths.pdf

    Back to the real issues growth rate, the doubling time of the death rate is said to be about 3 days, which implies a huge number. 30 days would be 10 doublings or about 1000 times. So in a month NYC should see 517x1000=517,000 deaths.

    , @Prajna
    @Frederick V. Reed


    reports of trucks carrying large numbers of dead in Italy
     
    Italy has about 1000 hospitals. Deaths/day at maximum in Italy was approx 1,000, which by my calculations works out at roughly one death per hospital per day. So how are they filling these trucks? Do they start at one hospital, perhaps at one with a 'spike' of two or three corpses, and load em on one by one as they go round the rest?

    Even its worst affected city had 100 deaths per day. How many hospitals in that city? How many trucks did they need for disposal as opposed to propaganda?
  • What’s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it. My initial question to a serious, unimpeachable Paris source, jurist Valerie Bugault, was...
  • It is not just the French government that seeks to destroy the economy and kill perhaps a million of the French to make money. A friend who runs an elder care facility near Guadalajara reports that he could not find chloroquine there either. Clearly the Mexican government seeks to destroy Mexico for Big Pharma. I Have seen on the web that Australia
    has fund that another antimalarial drug prevents death in one hundred percent of cases. So th Australian government also is seeing to kills its people. Reliable reportsexist of flying sauces hovering over Canberra. Strange lights have been seen glowing over Roswell…

    • Agree: Anatoly Karlin
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    • Troll: NoseytheDuke
    • Replies: @NPleeze
    @Frederick V. Reed


    kill perhaps a million of the French to make money
     
    They are killing a few thousand sick old people. The French have murdered millions of all ages for glory and empire. It always amazes me what fawning boot-lickers exist on this planet - a disgusting and vile sight, like a pile of dog shit on a Paris sidewalk, and one that is seen far too often.

    Replies: @Alfred

  • When in doubt as to just how remiss your government was, see what Israel has done to protect its nationals from the coronavirus pandemic. Taking its cues from the American Left, the Israeli left is all for national and individual self-immolation. But nobody who matters in that country has been listening to the Left babble...
  • Ilana,

    Your comments on ill-bred louts and mental dwarves are spot on but, believe me, you are not alone in being pestered . Actually it is fun stirring them up,and I confess to minor sadism in doing so. As you note, few are suffering hangovers after last night’s Mensa party.

    • Replies: @Really No Shit
    @Frederick V. Reed

    What's the matter, Freddie Boy? I guess too many hot tamales last night ... that's what you get when you start munching on the wrong things.

    , @Jim Christian
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Actually it is fun stirring them up,and I confess to minor sadism in doing so.
     
    It is merely a stir to get their moods to out-run their meds. It IS hilarious trolling them back. Then they go full-on victim.

    Rinse. Repeat.
    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Ha, earlier today when I read this column, with no time for a real reply, I had you, Mr. Reed in mind. Do you feel in good company with the pundit class, looking down on these deranged commenters that pester you so? Have you not noticed that lots of them are quite a bit smarter than you are, or are you just skimming for the cusswords?

    It's not that it's fun, but I'm sure you all get lots of more page views, which Mr. Unz likes, when you have long, argumentative comment threads. (It's not linear either - often the last 50 comments are 5 people arguing, and checking the page every 1/2 hour - "let me see if that asshole wrote back!") Hey, I'm a part of this, I'll admit right here.

    What I'm gonna do in a few minutes is post my impression (yes, I do impressions too) of Fred Reed and his bit about railing on all problems and all people who get off their asses to try to solve said problems. But, he is a clever gonzo journalisto, so that's just what he does. Stupidity is right there in the job description.

    .

    PS: I'm sure if any actual Mensa member, like the Authentic Jazz Man, wrote back, you'd have an insult about that too.

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Found it. The question is: are you sadistic enough to read it?


    [Fred Reed mode] America is decaying. There is no unified American culture anymore. There are lots of people mixed together from all over the world. There are bad ignorant Americans that are trying to prevent people from coming in from all over the world. Things don’t work well anymore. The new foreigners are better than those ignorant foreigner-hating Americans at working. America has changed for the worse from back when I was a kid when it was 90% white.

    Trump is a clown. The TV news that I watch all day is full of people criticizing the President for everything and making fun of him. TV sucks. Americans should see how bad their country is on the TV. Trump wants a wall built. Bad ignorant Americans want a border barrier built. Walls don’t work. Americans just don’t want we Mexicans to assimilate and exchange bodily fluids with them. Mexicans don’t want to assimilate and be part of the crass, new, sick American culture that I watch on TV. Mexican culture is better and we have great engineering schools and gated communities. Mexico is better, so Mexicans don’t want to go to America. There is no need for a wall, but they don’t work anyway. Bodily fluids! [/Fred Reed mode]
     
    Thanks, people, thanks ... I do a pretty good Kasey Kasem too ... and I can make horses and cats out of balloons!

    Replies: @Gleimhart Mantooso

  • [The following is the republication of several long and very detailed comments by an unidentified purported expert on biowarfare that originally appeared on a recent thread of the Saker blogsite.] [Update: an investigation strongly suggests that the author's claims regarding his personal background and professional expertise are accurate.] I’ll throw my 2 cents in here....
  • All reasonable, with none of the earmarks of traditional conspiracy theories. My only question is whether Bolton and Pompeo are stupid enough not to realize that the virus would end up in the US, where it is wreaking hell. They are certainly morally capable of it, as is the CIA. ??

    • Replies: @Ron Unz
    @Frederick V. Reed


    My only question is whether Bolton and Pompeo are stupid enough not to realize that the virus would end up in the US, where it is wreaking hell.
     
    Well, let's temporarily leave aside the whole bioweapon issue...

    The entire American national security leadership, including Bolton and Pompeo, totally ignored the viral outbreak in China, even after it began to spread to various other countries, and for two months didn't take any serious steps to prevent it from hitting the US. As a direct consequence, the official US CDC estimates are now that that millions of Americans may die from Coronavirus and our entire health care system will collapse.

    Offhand, that seems like a pretty "stupid" thing to do. So now apply that result to your original question...
    , @Tor597
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred, my opinion is that the US wants the outbreak to spread here and through the world.

    The main motive would be to cause an outbreak that is so devastating that the whole world turns against China. If America was spared from harm, there would be no motive to despise the Chinese.

    There is no other reason to explain why the US botched things so throughly. Why would Trump not want to heavily test or crack down on public gatherings?

    He could easily put the blame on China. But now that he and suspiciously the UK choose to just let it happen, that time has passed.

    This is similar to 9/11. It required the sacrifice of over 3,000 American lives. Once you cross that path, this is not much of a leap.

    Replies: @Ron Unz

    , @NoseytheDuke
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Well Fred, having done some hard work yourself to mock and discredit those people who have questioned the official narratives of some important events that paved the way for this, by labelling them as conspiracy theorists, I would say that you've been complicit in this outcome. The term useful idiot comes to mind...

    , @ThatDamnGood
    @Frederick V. Reed

    US Commerce Secretary is on record stating that he believed that the "Wuhan Virus" will benefit US by causing the global supply chain to shift to the US. What kind of briefing did he get?

    This point seems to have been forgotten. Or is my memory 'faulty' aka Mandela Effect.

    , @acementhead
    @Frederick V. Reed


    My only question is whether Bolton and Pompeo are stupid enough not to realize that the virus would end up in the US...
     
    Bolton and Pompeo are stupid enough to believe in 'the rapture', so yeah they are stupid enough by far.

    Replies: @9/11 Inside job

  • The 20th century has seen a seemingly countless number of military conflicts, ranging from small local clashes, to at least two world wars. The same 20th century saw a huge efforts by major powers to develop three types of so-called “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD): Atomic, Bacteriological and Chemical (ABC). All of these WMD were...
  • Steve Hatfill, a friend of bright medical guy, repeatedly made the point to me that America was utterly unprepared for a biological attack, for all the reasons we are now seeing. He also said that plague existed inprairie dog populations out west and that with plastic milk jugs and other common things it could be amplified to attack quantities. While the assertions that he was behind the anthrax attacks by mail are absurd–his head didn’t work that way–he had a well developed sense of humor and I strongly suspect, with no evidence, that he was behind the phony anthrax placed outside B’nai Brith.. The press, apparently thinking anthrax was contagious, made fools of themselves, but did not think about poor preparedness. Good try, Steve, maybe.

  • Vioxx killed 500,000 Americans: a toll that could have been reduced by 90% had the FDA issued a timely warning. Pharmaceuticals, correctly and legally prescribed, kill 140,000 Americans each year, yet most people are unaware of their lethality and do not know how to a prevent being killed this way. Coronavirus deaths are few, its...
  • More fantasy, poor fact checking, and error. There is no patent on Ebola and can’t be. From an old source of mine at the Patent Office:
    “Yes, you are correct, the application was abandoned and no patent issued. The invention looks to me a method of making a vaccine which could be both for treating and prevention. Natural “products” cannot be patented and it is not trivial to make an attenuated virus which is of course not found in nature and does not cause disease. There are cases of faulty vaccines being administered that did cause the disease it was intended to prevent in some cases but that shows how difficult this game is.
    What do you think of the conspiracy theories about coronavirus? Given the history of such viruses in China, I doubt this current breakout is related to anything military.”
    I found this with a thirty-second Google search.
    The post is full of such stuff. How do you infect “thousands of Guatemalans”with syphilis and gonorrhea? With squads of passionate CIA agents infected with these diseases? I think that clap is infectious only through the genital tract so that putting the bug in drinking water wouldn’t do it. On and on. And yes, I know that AIDS was invented by whites to kill blacks.
    C’mon, gang, how about a little fact-checking? A tiny bit of plausibility?

    • Replies: @Alden
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Many Men of UNZ believe the Miles Mathis website.

    , @Showmethereal
    @Frederick V. Reed

    It is no conspiracy theory that blacks in Tuskegee and Guatemalans by the US government. It has been admitted... It is fact.

    Replies: @9/11 Inside job

  • The claim that Major General Qassem Soleimani was a “terrorist” on a mission to carry out an “imminent” attack that would kill hundreds of Americans turned out to be a lie, so why should one believe anything else relating to recent developments in Iran and Iraq? To be sure, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 departing...
  • Transponders are turned on and off with switches in the cockpit. Is Giraldi suggesting that this transponder was equipped to be controlled from outside? Source of assertion that transponder was turned off? Can he name any commercial transponder with this feature? Does he know anythng about elctroic warfare? This sounds like the birthing of a conspiracy theory.

    • Replies: @Iris
    @Frederick V. Reed


    This sounds like the birthing of a conspiracy theory.
     
    General aviation transponders produce a reply signal to air traffic secondary radars at the standard, known frequency of 1,090 MHz; hence they are easy to jam and make disappear from outside.

    "Switch off" or "disappear" amounts to exactly the same, unless one is an automation engineer trying to be pedantic.

    , @FB
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Does [Mr Giraldi] know anythng about elctronic warfare? This sounds like the birthing of a conspiracy theory.
     
    No Mr Giraldi doesn't know enough about electronic warfare to try to shed light on what, if anything, other than ordinary 'human error' happened here...

    Conceivably any piece of equipment that uses radio signals can be interfered with...that includes cell phones, military radios, GPS, radar, or even missile guidance systems...

    That is why ICBMs do NOT use any radio frequency devices and instead use self-contained gyroscope-based navigation that cannot be interfered with...these are called inertial navigation systems and are also the primary nav systems on commercial and military aircraft, cruise missiles and other precision guided munitions...

    However, interfering with or jamming the Tor missile system that brought down the passenger jet would have required UFO-level technology...simply because of the distances involved...if you look at a map Tehran is hundreds of kilometers from anyplace that US electronic warfare aircraft could possibly operate...even the most powerful such aircraft in the US inventory, the C-130-based Compass Call is going to to have an effective reach of maybe a few dozen kilometers...

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/EC-130H_41st_EWS_taking_off_Davis-Monthan_AFB_%28cropped%29.jpg

    The only way to have interfered electronically in either the Tor or the downed jet would have been locally from the ground...perhaps by some saboteurs...this would have perhaps involved radio voice communications at most...

    The doomed flight was tracked on the popular web based tracking systems [which are made possible by the new generation of ADS-B transponders that almost all commercial jets now use, and which transmit the airplane position, speed and direction of flight...that why it's possible for anyone with a receiver to see basically what ATC sees...]

    The plane did appear to lose its ADSB signal, but whether or not this was before or after the airplane was hit is not clear...if it was after the hit, it might have been the pilot attempting to follow procedure by setting the transponder to 'squawk' an emergency code...but mistakenly turning it off instead...

    Again, conceivably, the airplane's transponder could have been jammed from the ground, but what would be the point of that...?

    It would not do anything to confuse the Tor...spoofing the transponder signal to make it appear to the Tor that it is going in a different direction is again theoretically possible using ground equipment nearby...although this would involve extremely specialized equipment...I would say there is really zero chance of that...

    In any case, it is impossible to spoof the Tor radar into thinking a Boeing 737 is a small cruise missile...Spoofing doesn't work like that...it uses what's called Digital Radio Frequency Memory [DRFM] to capture the enemy radar signal and send it back slightly altered...for direction, speed etc...for example a small delay that mimics a Doppler Shift, from which radars get their direction info about a target...

    This is obviously very handy to have on a fighter jet for instance...so you can spoof your adversary into thinking you're someplace you aren't...

    As far as 'spoofing' the Tor system...that is completely unlikely since it has not only two very sophisticated radar systems but also visual imaging sensors for both visible and thermal...here is a Tor picking up a small quadcopter drone on its display...

    Now the only interesting thing here is the fact that we have those 'videographers' that just happen to be pointing their cameras at the right place at the right time...in a very big and dark night sky...

    Certainly that is suspicious...and it does raise the faint possibility that something untoward was afoot...

    Replies: @Wally, @Ilyana_Rozumova, @Jeshurun Tsarfat

    , @ploni almoni
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Don't be silly. Conspiracies don't exist, especially in freedom loving democracies. What are you doing here anyway? Shouldn't you be reading the New York Times or the New Yorker where you will learn the truth? Stick to your own kind.

    , @anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    “ .. conspiracy theory.”

    Your 65th comment on TUR, yet none under your own columns, where you also like to call names (“Truther,” etc.) and then slink off.

    Seriously, Mr. Reed, what the hell?

  • When the Pentagon confirmed the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, U.S. President Donald Trump took to social media to post a single image of the American flag to the adulation of his followers. Unfortunately, most Americans are ignorant of the other flag synonymous with U.S. foreign policy, that of the ‘false flag’ utilized...
  • The downing was not accidental but the deliberate downing of a misidentified craft. The same is tru of the downing by the Vincennes of the Iranian airliner. Iran, presumably expecting an American attack, also presumably had defenses armed and on hair trigger. The same is true of the Vincennes. Since neither would have occurrred without the military aggressiveness of America, the US is culpable for both.

    • Replies: @Wally
    @Frederick V. Reed

    plus:

    Anti-Regime Protests by University Students in Tehran Over the Downing of Ukrainian Plane
    https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/iran-protests/27206-anti-regime-protests-by-university-students-in-tehran-over-the-downing-of-ukrainian-plane

    , @skrik
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Since neither would have occurred without the military aggressiveness of America, the US is culpable for both
     
    Yes; this is called Proximate cause:

    {In law, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact is determined by the "but for" test: But for the action, the result would not have happened. ... The formal Latin term for "but for" (cause-in-fact) causation, is sine qua non causation.}

    So, ‘but for US meddling,’ the shoot-down may never have occurred.

    Of course, it's not just Iran, but *anywhere* that doesn't lap up the mainly US-pushed 'liberal paradigm.' The only possible explanation for all else ‘downstream’ is that utter psychopaths are 'in control.' rgds

    Replies: @Sean, @Parfois1

    , @Addilyn Mitchell
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was a direct result of a deliberate attack on a misidentified craft - a mere substitution of imaginary heroes with imaginary enemies. If you don't agree perhaps you need medication.

    The masters just staged a false flag but that's only the start of the ill effects. The entire conversation is now filled with illogical realities delivered by the usual suspects on social media.

  • Many of us are forced to deal with personal issues because of our political-cultural beliefs. A typical situation might be a wife or girlfriend—the great majority of activists on the dissident right are male—who is terrified of it becoming known that she is associated with someone who is shunned and socially ostracized. But of course,...
  • The first paragraphs apply equally to SJWs and the Dissident Right.

    • Replies: @FvS
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Of whom, you would fall into the former, Fred "La Raza" Reed. However, many on the Dissident Right would likely settle for partitioning the country, allowing everyone to go their separate ways. Do you think the same applies to SJWs?

  • Every three years the OECD tests fifteen year-olds around the world in reasoning and self-expression. China, aspiring to join the OECD club of developed nations, entered seven regions with a total population of 250 million–Beijing, Shanghai, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan–and the results from the most recent tests were released this week....
  • If American scores are broken out by race, how do whites score?

    • Replies: @Godfree Roberts
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Waaaay better. I found that breakout a few years ago and sent it to my (Australian, hem, hem) brothers who felt thoroughly justified in continuing to send boat people back to wherever they came from. I will try to dig it up.

    , @FKA Max
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Steve Sailer just wrote about it: https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-scores-usa-usa/

    "U.S. white students outscored Japan and South Korea."

    https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1202722271418146817

    Replies: @AaronB, @Jackjack, @Anon, @Anon, @Anon

  • The PISA 2018 report has detailed regional data for Canada, Spain, and Kazakhstan (as well as more limited regional data for eight other countries), which you can find on pp.255-260 of PISA 2018 Results (Volume I) [excel]. We have already had maps of regional PISA-based IQ in Italy, Spain, Russia, and Germany, but this is...
  • “(4) All the correlations – between IQ and shares of ethnic Russians and Kazakhs; between fertility rates and IQ; and between fertility rates and shares of ethnic Russians and Kazakhs – are exactly as one would expect.”

    I would expect little correlation as birth rates change sharply and IQ presumably does not. Mexican birth rate is no 2.18 bpm, very nearly ZPG, but was far higher a few decades ago. Rising IQ? Was the post-war baby boom predominantly among the stupid? Perhaps. Hispanic birth rates in teh US have gone dn. Which way does this drive IQ in a space of ten or fifteen years?

    • Replies: @utu
    @Frederick V. Reed

    This is all a semantic confusion stemming from epistemic inattention and ontological neglect. What is IQ and in what sense does it exist because the only thing that we can be sure is that a specific individual took the so-called IQ test that yielded an IQ score. So it is possible that Juan Sanchez, your neighbor took an IQ test in 1987 and he had IQ score of X. Karlins of this world would like us to believe that this X is something that exists thereafter and can be called IQ of Juan Sanchez however all that is known for sure is that Juan Sanchez in 1987 scored X on IQ test. The semantic confusion is solidified by careless linguistic usage. What phrases does IQ appear in? These phrases are trying to smuggle in and solidify properties of IQ that actually do not exist. This is when the construction of social reality begins. The constructors might be huckster or true believers themselves being the victims of hucksterism.

  • Last year I reviewed Andrei Martyanov's book "Losing Military Supremacy: the Myopia of American Strategic Planning" for the Unz Review. In that book, Martyanov explained why the era of easy US victories over pretty much defenseless countries was over and what that meant for US force planners. This year it is my immense pleasure to...
  • Why do we say “defense spending” when we mean “military spending”? America has no military to defend against.

    • Replies: @The Scalpel
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I think they should call it welfare - for the rich and the not rich

    , @Jim Christian
    @Frederick V. Reed

    It has a dangerous set of nukes. The tripwires are and have always been easy-sinkers like our surface ships. The psychos that run our policy have subs and silos with missiles with lots of nukes.

    It's a dangerous game to consider a dopey thought like that Fred. Bet your ass Russia sees plenty of military here to defend against. Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, to them it was impossible, we killed millions. There's enough military here that Israel wants and has harnessed it. In what universe do you reside Fred? Ah yes, the moon name of Tequila. Fred? Go drink something. Jesus.

    , @SeekerofthePresence
    @Frederick V. Reed

    America's only need is to defend against itself.

  • VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: And now for something completely different…I was deeply impressed to receive this contribution from Zambian immigrant Chanda Chisala, who has emerged as one of the most ingenious opponents of the race-IQ hypothesis. Our Ruling Class’s position, as shown by the Stephen Miller and “Judge” Ashley Tabaddor farces, is that VDARE.com...
  • Bravo to Ron Unz for posting this piece

    For what it’s worth, a professor of petroleum geology in Texas once told me that her Nigerian students were better prepared mathematically than the white American students.

    Much of IQ theory is shaky. I might suggest that g, the ghostly metaphysical quantity as in “g-loading,” could use examination. I have interviewed black prisoners in such places as Lorton and the Cook County Jail, these men said to have IQs of 70. They were sharp, easily understood what I was saying, responded cogently and quickly, and showed no sign of being dim-witted. If they had very low IQs, the stupidity must have been concentrated in nonverbal areas. In my nine years as police reporter for the Washington Times, I found high verbal fluency of blacks to be the rule. (Notable exceptions were some of the elderly who tended to mumble.) Whites with a 70 IQ would be visible, and classified as, retarded.

    • Troll: MikeatMikedotMike
    • Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Bravo to Ron Unz for posting this piece
     
    http://cdn.doublequotes.net/nature-quotes/about-hundred/let-a-hundred-flowers-bloom-let-a-hundred-schools-of-thought-contend-403x403-nk511d.jpg
    , @CanSpeccy
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The puzzle of low IQ test score despite normal functional intelligence among those of African origin does not seem much of a puzzle in light of the Flynn effect, i.e., the fact that Europeans of two generations ago had mean IQ test scores of around 70 by today's standard.

    What that means is that IQ test scores are not a measure of innate intelligence, but of some small subsgroup of the faculties that constitute intelligence as modified by culture, whether Igbo, Luo, or that of US inner city blacks, or the white Harvard scholar's farm-boy ancestors of two generations ago.

    Chanda Chisala does a good job of deconstructing the convoluted HBD explanation for superior immigrant black academic performance, but for those simply curious to know how come those dumb niggers are outperforming we bright whites the explanation is fairly simple.

    Africans ain't dumb, they just live in a culture that yields low IQ test scores, just like the grandparents of the current generation of bright whites. But the difference between this generation of whites and their grandparents is no more genetically determined or, more importantly, indicative of a difference in intelligence, than in the case of the difference in IQ test scores between present day African and English children.

    That accepted, it is easy to understand why African kids in England do better at school, on average, than the English. They are the children of migrants and migrants of any origin will be among the more energetic, motivated, and physically and mentally fit than the average for their population. Therefore, African immigrants to Europe, originating as they do from populations with the same basic intelligence as Europeans, will be somewhat above the European average intelligence.

    Moreover, because they are drawn from a population that is innately more or less as intelligent as the European population, their children's intelligence will regress to a mean that is similar to the European mean. That means that despite regression to the mean, the children of African immigrants will tend to have IQ's and corresponding academic performance somewhat above the mean for the indigenous population.

    Replies: @GS

    , @joannf
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred easily nullifies decades of research statistics by personal experience - we all know that, and it's great that such people like you exist, Frank What would humanity be without its rare geniuses. It's a pity th method only works for those easily impressed by verbal redundancy vectors.
    Descriptions like "sharp" and "cogent" are also much more sexily didactic than dry numbers IQ science produces. In any case Chandala is a regular contributor to this site and his theory has been around for awhile (@Bardon).
    Onward, Fred ! Give everything.
    You just proved beyond any doubt that "IQ theory is shaky."
    I wonder what will be next in the series.

    Replies: @CanSpeccy

    , @Alden
    @Frederick V. Reed

    American blacks are very fluent. They do have a way with words. And the criminals are great talkers as they are skilled at BS ing. But if their IQs were tested at 70, that means they really can’t read or multiply.

    Did you ever ask them to read a 4th 5th grade level magazine like People or Ebony? They wouldn’t be able to.

    I spoke with thousands of black criminals over the years. They talk and talk and talk. But there’s endless repetition, illogic, wandering and blathering.

    Replies: @CanSpeccy

    , @Hippopotamusdrome
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Cool story, bro.

  • After celebrating Tuesday's takeover of Virginia's legislature and the Kentucky governorship, the liberal establishment appears poised to crush its biggest threat: the surging candidacy of Elizabeth Warren. From the tempo and tenor of the attacks, establishment fears of Warren's success are real -- and understandably so. Two Wednesday polls show Warren running even with Joe...
  • Warren does not promote socialism, which is an economic system in which the means of production belong to the government. She proposes nationalizing no company. She wants a welfare state. Why don’t people learn what words mean?

    • Replies: @Paul
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You, of course, are right. Not even Sweden is socialist. Volvo, for example, is a private company. In the United States, even the "defense" contractors on the government dole (the warfare state) are privately owned. What Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders actually favor is not socialism but rather an expanded social welfare system.

    Replies: @follyofwar

    , @MB
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Socialism= govt. control of the economy.
    Of which the subset is:
    Fascism = indirect govt. control of the economy i.e. what we have now/corporatism/crony capitalism etc.
    Communism = direct govt. ownership of the means of production/companies etc.
    IOW college level and high school level socialism.

    (HT Tom Rose, Grove City College Economics prof. )

    , @TTSSYF
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Her expanded welfare state would result in an economic system in which the means of production of more than 50% of the economy would belong to the government. It walks and quacks like a socialist duck, so it doesn't really matter what it's called.

    Replies: @Justvisiting

    , @HallParvey
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Why don’t people learn what words mean?
     
    In a perfect world, individual understanding of the meaning of any individual word varies from person to person. That can lead to misunderstanding in communication, without trying to do so.

    When you throw in deliberate efforts to fool somebody, you wind up with cheats, scoundrels and criminals. And politicians.

    means of production belong to the government.
     
    In a country where you are required to pay real estate taxes to the state, where you are required to have a permit to operate a lemonade stand, everything already belongs to the government. Private ownership is delusion. Everything you own is at the sufferance of the government.

    It's called a permit for a reason.

    Replies: @schnellandine

  • It is good to have an essay which sets out a point of view clearly, so Ewan Birney’s 24th October blogpost (Ewan Birney, Jennifer Raff, Adam Rutherford, Aylwyn Scally) is welcome. A summary of this sort gives discussions of racial differences a focal point. Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer It is not up to...
  • Just as suggesting that differences in racial intelligence exist can end a career, so can questions about the infallibility of doctrinaire evolution. Both arouse cries of pseudoscience and both involve suppression of evidence. Both are a type of political correctness, as rational as AO’s economics.

    • Replies: @CanSpeccy
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Just as suggesting that differences in racial intelligence exist can end a career, so can questions about the infallibility of doctrinaire evolution. Both arouse cries of pseudoscience and both involve suppression of evidence. Both are a type of political correctness
     
    Still, Fred, anti-evolutionists who don't know what they are talking about should be corrected. As here:

    Misunderstanding Evolution, Or Evolutionary Theorists May Be Wrong, But Fred Reed Is Wronger

    Replies: @Poupon Marx

    , @Bert
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred,
    Kindly support your assertion with several examples.

    , @atlantis_dweller
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Well... every sector, not only in finance or business but also in "knowledge", tends to be full of, and run by, ambitious people.
    Ambitious people love sense of power to begin with, and have a very marked tendency to developed addiction to sense power once they meet some success.

    Now you see... sense of power, in turn, is addicted to "being right"... so the people who love to "be right" will join the mainstream/majority group, whenever and about whatever. And of course sense of power demands that they demean anyone questioning what they claim is true... which, for the way their ambition makes things be for them, is an attack to their ego, personal worth, or to use the same words as before, sense of power.

    It is mostly all about that, thus most debates and discussions about even academic subjects are a form of wrestling suiting a particular subset of people.
    Look into the etymology of words like "debate" (beat, batter, abate, ...), discuss (concuss, ...), they already warn us about what it is, mostly, about.
    And indeed, debates are "won" by someone and "lost" by someone else, aren't they?

    Replies: @CanSpeccy

  • I have been mulling over the ideas in this article since early 2016, when they crystallized in more or less their current form. I am not quite sure whether these ideas are rather important, or the ravings of a lunatic. But I am certainly glad to be able to finally unload them from the confines...
  • Ravings by a lunatic seems a trifle rough for a magisterial and heavily researched piece. Still, the most parsimonious explanation for the lack of contact with alien civilizations is that there are none. This may be wrong, but until such a civilization is conclusively found, nonexistence remains a viable hypothesis. Likewise, until a first self replicating molecule is designed, demonstrated, and shown to be mathematically plausible, its nonexistence also remains possible. The paradox rests on the assumption that a finite probability of chance appearance of the molecule. Then we have a paradox. If we accept that seawater can give rise to Manhattan and to the information in the library of Congress and the human genome, then the probability of this times enough planets would indeed suggest the presence of many civilizations. But the fecundity of slightly polluted water has not been established, though it is furiously asserted.

    While Anatoly is not remotely a lunatic, the piece does contain the extreme multiplication of hypotheses that I associate with conspiracy theories held passionately by men who, weirdly in my estimation, also are not lunatics.

    • Replies: @Daniel Chieh
    @Frederick V. Reed



    [Sincere apologies for the off-topic]

    Hello Fred!

    I was just thinking and talking about you the other day. I'm sure that you can help assist us in answering some mysteries about Mexican safety and advancement. Please note the below:

    https://nationalpost.com/news/world/el-chapos-cartel-launches-military-style-assault-on-mexican-forces-securing-his-sons-release-from-custody

    There was a bit of analysis here:

    https://claireberlinski.substack.com/p/on-mexican-state-collapse-a-guest

    Perhaps you could help us understand this particular evolution of a hihgly intelligent, civilized people and rapid approach toward psychoactively fueled anarchy? I particularly wish to understand how mass illegal entry by the same stock of population will help contribute to the stability and sanity of Brazil Del Nort...oops, I meant America. Your unshakable reason and sanity is a breath of Luddite air in this benighted place.

    AK: I am sure Fred will be happy to answer that on a separate blog post.

    , @Anatoly Karlin
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Well, thanks. FWIW I'd put perhaps a 2% chance of the Katechon Hypothesis being correct (I think the banal likeliest scenario is that life really is very rare and improbable).

    However, as Robin Hanson has noted, even if chance of a particular future scenario is low, it's still worth looking at it closely given the numbers of future lives that it would affect.

  • Who’s afraid of Alan Sabrosky? Whoever they are, they have the ability to monitor and censor YouTube live-streams in real time. And they apparently don’t want you to know what Sabrosky thinks about the Holocaust. That’s the obvious takeaway from the highly unusual example of YouTube censorship that disrupted the March 22 live broadcast of...
  • A crucial step in removing the Nine-Eleven conspiracy from the crackpot ledger would be to explain how the buildings were rigged for demo without it being noticed. This would require knowing something about controlled demolition. If the truthers do not demonstrate plausibility, reasonable people will assume that they cannot.

    • Troll: Mike P
    • Replies: @Cesca
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Pretty easy Fred, 9/11 needed to be based around the central core not all over the building, which is where the lifts were. Just make it look like maintenance.

    , @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Your Chaimstream version of 9-11 bankrupted all demolition companies, because that day proved that all one needs to drop a building into its foundational footprint is a simple office fire with papers, an accelerant, and a couple hours. There is nothing a demolition company does that cannot be accomplished much more easily and economically by an arsonist with a match.

    Replies: @Iris

    , @Rurik
    @Frederick V. Reed


    explain how the buildings were rigged
     
    I can't explain how life came to be, but it's here.

    It's enough that we know what's possible and impossible. And it's impossible for people to know of building Seven's collapse before it happened, without advanced knowledge (in other words, it had been rigged). Just as it would have been impossible for the Mossad to know the attack was going to happen without advance knowledge.

    How did the Mossad know? I can't explain that. But it's enough to know that they did, and then work backwards. Just like with life. We know it exists, now we can work backwards to try to understand how. Or pretend that it doesn't exist.

    Replies: @Anon, @vagabondtheelder, @2stateshmustate

    , @Kevin Barrett
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The elevator shafts offered easy access to the core columns. People who worked in the Towers were heavily inconvenienced by the unusual amount of "elevator work" that transpired in 2001. A minor and allegedly mobbed up elevator company called Ace Elevator, rather than the standard big companies, did the work. Highly suspicious details are at http://aneta.org/911experiments_com/AceElevator/ .

    Replies: @Zumbuddi, @Desert Fox, @Saggy

    , @Chinookwind
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Something people may not have connected, when the World Trade Center was truckbombed in 1993
    the same culprits were no doubt involved.
    I don’t know if my understanding is incorrect, wasn’t the whole place shut down ( closed)for almost a whole year? This was for maintenance ,repairs ,safety . I could be wrong ,but this would provide ample time to wire the buildings for demolition. Only thing after that is a little patience.

    It’s also true that our enemies definitely are playing a long game. They have patience , it’s ours that is getting short.

    , @j2
    @Frederick V. Reed

    "A crucial step in removing the Nine-Eleven conspiracy from the crackpot ledger would be to explain how the buildings were rigged for demo without it being noticed. This would require knowing something about controlled demolition. If the truthers do not demonstrate plausibility, reasonable people will assume that they cannot."

    You do not need to know anything about commercial controlled demolition in order to produce an explanation that is better than the official explanation and explains your concerns. All you need to know is a well-known military pioneer trick that all armies know.

    We start from this that you support the official theory: thus you believe that if one floor in a WTC building burns because of the airplane crash, the fire weakens steel pillars and the result is the collapse that was seen. So, let us assume fire can weaken pillars and the building then crashes down, but let us assume the fire was not jet fuel and office stuff burning but that it was made by placing to one floor incendiatory devices next to steel columns. As this is an old way military brings down power lines, the expertise (the little of it what is needed here) was easy to find. It requires only a few men, a number of incenditory devices and little time. Assuming that the official theory that fire can bring down the building just as was seen in the videos, this modification can do it just as or better well as a plane. As you can calculate the burning time and energy, you get all columns to collapse at the same time. Additionally you have enough material that burns with a very high temperature to explain the high temperatures of Ground Zero.

    Replies: @ploni almoni

    , @anarchyst
    @Frederick V. Reed

    That's easy...anyone who knows anything about building maintenance is aware that there are all kinds of "maintenance people" running around in any large building, and that they remain relatively unnoticed.
    Not "rocket science"...

    , @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery

    “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

    “Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

    , @Incitatus
    @Frederick V. Reed

    “A crucial step in removing the Nine-Eleven conspiracy from the crackpot ledger would be to explain how the buildings were rigged for demo without it being noticed.”

    One thing is certain. It wasn’t Klingons. Claims 15 of 19 “swarthy humanoids characterized by prideful ruthlessness and brutality” are long disproved, another shameful Deep State red herring. It/they/whatever never happened.

    Hint: check out Romulans. Arch-enemies of the Federation. The cloaking device is key (nudge/nudge/wink/wink).

    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+romulan+cloaking+device&view=detail&mid=D0146C7DFB27C4839228D0146C7DFB27C4839228&FORM=VIRE

    “It will be our secret.” Enough said.

    Meanwhile, send your dollars to Richard Gage and ae911truth. His website’s a going concern. 3122 architects and engineers so far, in eighteen (18) years. Of 933,554 architects and engineers in the US [113,554 RAs + 820,000 PEs - source NCARB, NCEES].

    Sure, 99.65% haven’t signed his petition. They’re unpatriotic shills, part of the conspiracy, (whisper) Romulans (?).

    Critics say it’s even worse. Many listed in Gage’s list aren’t licensed professionals, un-credentialed (have no standing) in the USA. So what? Can any doubt their (expertise)?

    Not to worry. “Anyone who knows anything about building maintenance” knows “all kinds of “maintenance people” run “around in any large building” and “remain relatively unnoticed”. Inside tenant space? At grade mining freestanding columns?

    Also “elevator shafts offered easy access to the core columns” and “A minor and allegedly mobbed up elevator company called Ace Elevator, rather than the standard big companies, did the work”.

    Golly. How many core columns (toilet rooms, utility shafts, stairwells, etc.) weren’t accessible from elevator shafts? No matter.

    It’s the thought that counts.

    , @Biff
    @Frederick V. Reed


    A crucial step in removing the Nine-Eleven conspiracy from the crackpot ledger would be to explain how the buildings were rigged for demo without it being noticed.
     
    Urban moving company!

    Replies: @ploni almoni

    , @Wally
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Except that the WTC was closed while "elevator repairs were being done".

    Replies: @Andrew E. Mathis

    , @AB_Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Wasn’t exactly the same parody of logic (practically word to word) aired in a quite recent
    article here ?
    With the same reasoning similar to “This man definitely died from repeatedly
    (9 times) slipping on a banana peel and falling on a sharp kitchen knife. Any other
    version is a conspiracy theory by definition, unless approved by the authors of
    "banana version"...
    I understand, it’s not an easy task to sell the ears of a dead donkey as a bouquet of roses,
    but shouldn’t you guys at least try to diversify your efforts ?
    For example, once in a while, try to justify a pure nonsense related to physics or math by
    insisting that under certain extreme circumstances (like in times of war) sin(X) may
    reach values of 2, 3, or even higher...
    That may also be a good training for inevitably and fast approaching need to explain a
    lot of things, related not so much to the physics of events (including 9/11) but to their
    math. You may start practicing already by adding up “WTC2, 10:05am + ... + ...”.

  • There is no doubt that the 9/11 false flag (now even admitted (by direct implication) by NIST!) was a watershed, a seminal event in our history. While millions (or even billions) watched in horror as the twin towers burned, a small group of Mossad agents stood nearby and danced in overwhelming joy. Why exactly were...
  • Why do those purporting to believe that Nine Eleven was an Israeli plot never make even a minor effort to explain in practical terms how it could have been done? Unsupported assertion grows no more convincing with repetition. It is like Muslims insisting that Allah is the one true god.

    • Agree: TKK
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    After you shat the cognitive bed in your recent article, why would anyone bother?

    Ask Revusky. You'll bond like brothers.

    Replies: @NoseytheDuke

    , @Beefcake the Mighty
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Do you get paid to be stupid, or are you doing it out of the goodness of your heart?

    Replies: @TKK

    , @Hamlet's Ghost
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Explosives were planted in the three buildings weeks before 9/11. On that date the explosives were detonated and the buildings were destroyed. That's how it was done.

    , @Colin Wright
    @Frederick V. Reed

    ' It is like Muslims insisting that Allah is the one true god.'

    'Allah' is merely the Arabic word for 'God.' For example, the people of Malta are Christian but speak an Arabic language. They call God 'Allah.'

    So yeah; Allah is the one true God. God is God. It's not a particularly controversial idea.

    Replies: @Che Guava, @Malacaay

    , @TKK
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The journalist "Saker"whose reference and evidence is a hyperlink back to his OWN opinion piece on his website.

    Further, any reporting that starts with: A New Jersey housewife saw.... No vetting required there!

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. None is proffered.

    Saddam's Iraq was stridently secular, and posed no immediate danger to Israel. Saddam kept his boot on the Shia neck. This pleased Israel. Same with Afghanistan. To frame Iran as the perpetrators of 9/11- that would have some traction. But was not the case.

    To be sure- real Moussad agents would never be seen, caught or interviewed. They are deadly ghosts.

    Replies: @FuckTrumpAlready, @Beefcake the Mighty

    , @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I presume you mean Ignore all of the evidence and format the circumstances into bits of mother Hubbard's wisdom, and twist and crank the wisdom-bits into "practical terms"? I think it necessary for you to tell us (define in no uncertain terms what you mean by "practical terms"). Until now, I was unaware that fake news is one of many methods used to repress evidence. Apparently evidence is shred into practical terms and packed into fake news and fake histories?

    What could be more pragmatic then that the evidence does not support the official story.. in fact it supports the beginning of an outcome which is still worsening: homeland security, spying on everyone, government in secret, selected removable of websites that prevent facts that contract official lies, a privately owned public media, a court system that operates in secret.. three and four letter agencies that amount to nothing, but corrupt bastards, and federalism enforced by an army instead of integrated, negotiated compliance..wars that have no meaning but to loot the invaded nation, regime changes in foreign lands that benefit absolutely no governed American, missing trillions in government contract areas, and on and on.. if you do a look back to 9/11 your see in practical terms the outcome of 9/11.. so now we look at
    who benefits from such draconian uncalled for and unjustified set of outcomes. and the only suspects the evidence suggest thus far seem to be bankers and the corporations in several nations. Virtually cleared by the evidence are Iraq, Russia, China, Iran, Georgia, Ukraine, Cuba, Libya, Santa Claus, Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Africa, Syria, or Venezuela Now it could be someone else..maybe some guy on the moon but no evidence has surfaced yet to add any one else to possible suspect list. One point, there are many corporations that should be on the possible suspect list, people tend to name countries instead of corporations by name..

    and to answer how it could have been done in practical terms three things come to mind.
    1. if the airplanes were autopilot driven decoy drones <=explains how
    fake pilots got past the security gates (no pilots, no gate security)
    and how the planes did maneuvers in excessive G-forces and survived
    2. if the planes that hit the buildings were mere decoy's time to hide demolition;
    professor Jones, a physicist " the best job of building demolition he had seen (sulfur cutter tools &
    explosives were used). even explains how the building that contained all of the records that would
    explain missing trillions (a building not even hit by a plane, was still taken down as well).
    3. if the private media, military and government officials were complicit ...

    , @Digital Samizdat
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The following link is fairly detailed and cites numerous sources. A good primer, all in all: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it

    , @Biff
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Why do those purporting to believe that Nine Eleven was an Israeli plot never make even a minor effort to explain in practical terms how it could have been done?
     
    Opening up a moving company would be the first step. Then using it as a front to get in and around various places in the building to plant the explosives - “Just another client that needs a new desk moved into the back office” Bata-Bing; It would only take a few weeks too a couple of months to get everything in place. Then poof! “Time we dance”
    , @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred Reed: "Unsupported assertion..."
    __vs.__
    Dr. Alan Sabroski (former Director at US Army War College): "The U.S. military knows that Israel did 9/11, and if the American people ever figure this out, they will scrub Israel off the Earth, and they should!"

    , @anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The 9/11, without any doubt was a FALSE FLAG OPERATION designed and implemented by the zionist neocons, Bush regime and Israel. NO DOUBT.

    The criminal neocons and zionist Bush appointed another zionist Jew, Henry Kissinger, to deceive the dummies and bury the truth about 9/11 where carried out by Bush regime and Israel.

    [The White House insisted that it was to appoint the commission's chair, leading some to question the commission's "independence". The initial person appointed to head the commission, Henry Kissinger, has been accused by many of having been involved in past government coverups in South America (specifically, the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile), and of having on-going business relationships with members of the bin Laden family in Saudi Arabia. ]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_9/11_Commission

    Whoever is trying to make people to believe the Jewish mafia hoax story, 19 Arab men with box opener, is either a dummy or the agent of the Jewish mafia mass murderers.

    Death to zionist mass murderers and its extension. People are NOT dumb. You will be destroyed soon. You existence is nothing but evil. Only dumb people accept the story of the zionist mass murderers and their stooges.

    MAJORITY OF THE US AIRPORTS ARE UNDER MOSAD CONTROL like the treasury, intelligence, presidency, congress, media, casino, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, organ trafficking, sport & games, Hollywood, music, 'fashion' and whore houses. Real Estate is becoming Jewish mafia control. Capitalism, usury, and slave trade, Drug trade are all Jewish where is the base of the Jewish mafia power. This base must be destroyed.

    READ The jews and Modern Capitalism by Werner Sombart

    https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/sombart/jews.pdf

    Trump family is owned by the criminal Jewish mafia and Trump is a member of criminal Jewish mafia. He is directed and led by zionist Jews at the WH. He is an illiterate zionist, advised by the criminal Jewish zionists.

    He let to the WH by the Jewish mafia bankers, lawyers, sex offenders, pimps, and casino owners.
    Only dummies support him.

    , @FuckTrumpAlready
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Now this is an idiotic line of defense as no other:

    Judge: your story is bullshit, much of the available evidence flies in the face of it. I don't believe this is how it all happened.

    Counselor Reed: Now judge, explain then in "practical terms" how it could have been done?

    Judge: Go fuck yourself dummy shill. It is not the work of a judge to come up with hypotheses.

    Counselor Reed goes home and, from then on, writes one idiotic post about "conspiracy theories" twice a year because he still does not understand, retard as he is, that the work of a judge or a researcher is not to come up with alternative hypotheses, but to examine the evidence and to determine which entity was more likely to commit the crime, be it because of geopolitical gains (Israel) revenge (Iraq fired 42 scud missiles, 40 feet tall and 11k lbs each to Israel in 1991) circumstancial evidence (mossad operatives arrested driving vans to which explosive trained dogs reacted on inspection, mossad operatives ready to film before the planes crashed on a roof, arrested for 2 months and quetly released and deported etc) or declarations of an Italian ex president (Cossiga) in an Italian most read newspaper, that 911 was joint CIA-Mossad operation.

    Israel did it? Could be

    Is there solid proof of it? Nope

    Is there *reason* to believe Mossad operatives could have played a part in the operation? YES

    Am I supposed to speculate about how big of a role they played, their motivations and a detailed description of their MO so you, Fred Reed-tard can dismiss the whole thing as unbelievable balooney? No, you manchild retard, no need to do that.

    , @Harbinger
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Did I just read correctly you think people who claim Mossad behind 9/11 to have no proof?
    Seriously?
    Jew control of all western nations, their politicians, security services, academia, msm.....I could name more. In fact why bother as I'd only be regurgitating what's been stated already.
    However there are three overwhelming pieces of evidence that prove Israeli involvement.

    1. Five "Dancing", Israelis, set up cameras, pointing at the towers long before the attacks and on Israeli TV stated "we were there to DOCUMENT THE EVENT" proving foreknowledge. The fact they were extradited to Israel in the first place proves Jewish power and not only that, had it been any other country, where these men went on national TV and said what they did, the USA would have bombed them immediately.

    2. A group of Mossad agents, disguised as artists, just happened to rent out whole floors in one of the Towers, where the planes hit. Pictures taken, by them, show them in construction gear, in front of hundreds of boxes with a code on, in the business known to be DETONATION TRIGGERS! They were extradited back to Israel. Like the above point shows INSANE Jewish power to have them released and forgotten about. Again had this been another nation the USA would have bombed them immediately.

    3. Israeli texting service texted all Jews not to go to work, in the towers, on 9/11.

    All these points would be enough for everyone involved, up on terrorism and mass murder charges, facing the death penalty. The fact all are free and forgotten about shows Jewish control of politics (no one called for these people to be extradited), the police (suspects released), judiciary (no call for trial of suspects), security services (almost non existant investigation whitewashed) and msm (very little reported on the matter.

    There are much more obvious points but I really can't be bothered. The afforementioned points are enough. Any law abiding coutry would have arrested these people an most certainly tortured them to find their leaders. Jewish power is the power to stop discussion on Jewish power.

  • Today’s world of higher education is not especially notable for miracles. But I am happy to report of one such miracle—the transformation of diversity from an academic liability to an asset of near incalculable benefit. That this transformation occurred in the space of a few decades and cost only a few million, makes it especially...
  • This guy needs to learn to use the subjunctive, suggesting that he might be a sociologist.

    • Replies: @Truth
    @Frederick V. Reed

    LMAO!

  • So there’s going to be at least a brief government shutdown over the Democrats’ refusal to fund President Trump’s Wall. Good. I cheered on the Wall when Trump put it at the front of his campaign in 2016. And of course we should have a secure barrier to separate us from the semi-barbarous countries to...
  • Stopping immigration is a very good idea, but I weary of Derbyshire’s flag-wrapped crowing about his “patriotism.” He is no more an American than I am a Mexican. We are both foreigners legally resident in somebody else’s country. I at least have the minimal manners not to be a guest in the home of another and try to run the household’s affairs.

    Precisely why does he, a legal alien, think that what he wants for a country not his is patriotism? That it is his business to decide? In this case patriotism is not the last refuge of a scoundrel but of a meddlesome Aunt Polly. The same might be said of Brimelow, another unreconstructed Brit.

    If it sounds like a Brit, has the body language of a Brit, and moralizes like a Brit, it’s probably a Brit. No?

    Like Coulter, Mac Donald, Brimelow and so on he is of the DC-Manhattan talking heads. Has he ever been to Latin America? Perhaps he has. For all I know, he has a doctorate in Latin Studies from the University of Buenos Aires. But if he doesn’t–if he hasn’t had the intellectual integrity to make some slight effort to find out what he is talking about–then he is as I have thought. I believe that in England they has an expression, “Bugger off,” n’est-ce pas? Or do your homework.

    • Replies: @onebornfree
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Yay! Fred Reed! Always love your stuff I read at Lew Rockwell's site over many years. Thanks so much, very funny stuff. [And screw all these snotty statist Brits - "bugger off" indeed! ]

    Regards, onebornfree

    , @James Fulford
    @Frederick V. Reed

    FYI, Derb has been a US Citizen since he took the Oath of Citizenship on April 19, 2002, when I believe he did in fact buy a flag. His wife is also a naturalized US citizen. His children are US citizens, his son served a hitch in the US Army.

    He has renounced and abjured all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, etc, etc, including Elizabeth II, the UK, and and especially the EU.

    Replies: @attilathehen

  • A Confidential Note to Various "Alt-Right" People and Others Dated: August 21, 2017 I've been very dismayed by the recent "political purge" being conducted by some of the largest Internet companies, in which numerous controversial websites of the "Alt Right" have suddenly been "disappeared," and in which all sorts of basic Internet services such as...
  • Indeed. It is not just in Silicon Vallley that Hispanic crime is disappointingly low. I make a point of asking about race relations with Latins everywhere I go, and ask friends in other places. DC, New York, Chicago{{Berwyn and Pilsen, for example–San Antonio, Houston, on and on. Nobody reports Breitbartian problems. Black crime, yes. My impression is that most of the alarmed, to include leaders of th Alt Right, have little or no experience of Latin America or Latinos.

    • Replies: @Hail
    @Frederick V. Reed

    (1) This is a strawman. No one has constructed an entire case on the assertion that 'Hispanic' crime rates are x% higher than non-Hispanic crime rates (anyway, they are certainly higher than a "White, Vermont" baseline ideal to which the USA was once not far off).

    (2) There are many good 'Hispanics' just as there are many good Blacks, but in population terms they are a liability to a (post-)industrial White, Northwest-European-derived society. Our society becomes racially incoherent, culturally Latin Americanized.

    (3) The term we should be using is "Mestizos," which may never catch on. A population with a substantial share of Amerindian ancestry will be a liability; true, non-euphemistic 'White Hispanics' much less so. The problem with the latter is they "go Vicente Fox" and become vectors of the Mestizo colonial enterprise in the USA.

    (4) Does anyone actually want a scenario by which there are more K-to-12-age Mestizos resident in the USA than White ethnic-core Americans (Northwest European), on target for circa the 2040s? Even if their crime rates were half those of the "White, Vermont baseline"?

    Replies: @llloyd, @Old fogey

    , @Saxon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Mestizo countries are probably the most violent and crime-ridden hellholes on the planet. Doubt you or Ron Unz would relish moving to live with the hoi polloi in Rio de Janeiro. You know what would be great? If the Fed gov was instead used a weapon against your type to settle a cross-section of Somalians in government-funded housing in your areas. See how well that goes for you.

    That's the thing, though. Ensconced in a bubble of the Silicon Shtetl, you don't need to see nor care about any of this. You still have enough wealth to pretend things are great by paying a premium to not live near the overwhelming majority of these non-Europeans and hey, maybe even some of the blacks and browns you live around are the talented 0.1% so aren't misery to be around. Great for you. The reality of course is a lot different for the white masses. Ron Unz lives in a highly segregated area where alien elites (mostly east Asian and Brahmin Indians) still tolerate whites but will move to get rid of them and give nepotistic gigs to Sundar Pichai's retarded cousin Pajeet who can't stop asking to show bobs and vegana as soon as possible, if it's not already happening.

    When whites are an absolute minority, we already know what we have to look forward to by looking at both South Africa today and what's happening in our countries now. Increasing violence against us, more gradual dispossession, more anti-white race laws and policies, intensifying affirmative action, quotas, set-asides that use Orwellian terminology like "legacy majority" or "majority-minority" "race-conscious admissions) and whatever else they come up with to claim this state of affairs MUST continue indefinitely until the last white man has been murdered or made by the government deciding the winners and losers into an invisible loser unable to attract his own group's women and then there are no more actual whites left, just as the jew writer Eric Kaufmann stated, a bunch of brown people who claim to be white and do a We Wuz The Founding Fathers, We Wuz Englishmen etc. mass of le 56% faces who "identify" with the people who actually created the now-decayed husk of a civilization.

    Worse is to come down the pipe, though. The various forms of redistribution from white to non-white can't continue apace indefinitely. So eventually those somewhat pacified Mestizos you think are so peaceful won't be getting as much free stuff to keep them in these better-than-where-they-came-from conditions and then it'll be just like any other central or south American shithole, except that the whites forced to live near them by the government deciding the winners and losers in life won't even be able to raise a finger in self-defense, and will be constantly chased down by government policies to forcibly "diversify" everywhere we live.

    I mean look at what's happening now, lawfare-instituted struggle sessions in the courtroom because someone pointed out that this banana-in-a-noose thing was a hoax.

    https://apnews.com/51b6ed10e4654426a2855a42ad58ba0d

    Think things like this will get better or worse when we have less demographic power and worse than the no political representation we have now? The anti-white policies and rhetoric have been intensifying as we are ethnically cleansed, NOT softening. We have no reason to believe it will and if history is a barometer, every reason to believe it will reach violent genocide levels.

    In any case EVEN if--and we know this isn't true, but for the sake of argument--even if these people were all wonderful and it wasn't just wealth transfer from us to them and dispossession into racial genocide, what do we get out of this? Even if they were 100% the same as us and everything carried on, except without us, why is ethnic cleansing a moral good and what do we even get out of this? We know they aren't equal to us in ability and that things won't carry on, obviously, but no one can explain how we and our descendants somehow benefit from any of this. Did we and our ancestors give our blood, sweat and tears and toil away to hand it away to ungrateful foreigners who hate our guts, want us dead and to take our stuff? Probably not.

    Replies: @Biff, @SafeNow

    , @Carlton Meyer
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Per Hispanic crime rates, we are told people are fleeing Honduras because of high-crime rates. The US State Department warns:

    "Since 2010, Honduras has had one of the highest murder rates in the world. Credit card skimming is common. Many people report receiving threatening phone calls or extortion attempts, especially during Christmas and Easter holidays. Gangs are not reluctant to use violence and specialize in murder-for-hire, carjacking, extortion, and other violent street crime. They are also known to control some of the taxi services. Violent transnational criminal organizations also conduct narcotics trafficking and other illicit commerce."

    https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=23798

    So who thinks crossing the US border makes them all saints? Wanted criminals are wise to head north to cross the US border. Those released from prison have records and face police harassment and employment problems, so heading north also makes sense. Any immigrant who arrives penniless will steal what they can to survive. That's why a focus on Hispanic crime rates is misleading. Stats on impoverished illegal immigrant crimes rates of any race would be shocking, but are not publicized for that reason.

    If you want a graphic display of Hispanic crime, just look at the current LAPD most wanted list to learn why whites fear Hispanic crime.

    http://www.lapdonline.org/all_most_wanted

    As President Trump noted, illegal immigrants are not the best from Latin American nations, but the worst, the unwanted. Latin American nations have shipped their unwanteds to the USA for decades. Our media ignored the recent "caravans" from Central America arrived at the USA on chartered buses, paid for by Mexicans. They are furious that North Americans want this dumping stopped. So is Mr. Reed, who doesn't want these surplus people filling the streets in his nice Mexican retirement town where he lives like king off his monthly government checks from the USA.

    Replies: @anon, @Patricus

    , @Hypnotoad666
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Does anyone actually want a scenario by which there are more K-to-12-age Mestizos resident in the USA than White ethnic-core Americans (Northwest European), on target for circa the 2040s?
     
    The Los Angeles Unified School District has had less than about 15% White (at least at the High School level) for what seems like forever. Basically, Whites send their kids to the local elementary school but when they get to Jr. High (which is bused/integrated), it's off to private or parochial school. Of course this applies even (especially) to the most liberal Whites. It's a huge expense on top of the already insane property taxes.

    But aside from this (not small) problem, the Hispanisizing of LA has not been the end of the world.

    Hispanics may not be world-beaters in terms of motivation and ability but they really aren't that offensive either. They come from a mostly Europeanized Christian culture, they aren't resentful of whites, and they genuinely like American culture for the most part. We could do way worse -- like the Africans and Muslims pouring into Europe.

    Edit: Actually, one big problem I forgot. Hispanics do vote party-line for Democrats out here.

    Replies: @ThisIsFine

    , @TheBoom
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Good points. All Mexicans are open to Mexico being a Chinese and Indian country. They are not affilicted by the racism of whites.

  • As most readers know, I'm not a casual political blogger and I prefer producing lengthy research articles rather than chasing the headlines of current events. But there are exceptions to every rule, and the looming danger of a direct worldwide clash with China is one of them. Consider the arrest last week of Meng Wanzhou,...
  • Once a year I like to pretend like my blog is some kind of "respectable" mainstream outlet and I engage in the (admittedly totally silly!) exercise of nominating some "man" (sorry, "person" is unbearably politically correct and once you go down that route you end up calling mentally deranged freaks "ze/zir/zee/etc" and the like). Hey,...
  • The Nine-Eleven conspiracy theory will remain a fringe curiosity until the CATs show that it was physically possible. Since almost nobody knows anything about controlled demolitions, this would require talking to, say, CDI to see what would be involved to produce the effects observed. If CTs want to impress each other by endlessly intoning “inside job” and “nanothermite,” well and good. But if they want to be taken seriously they need to do the basic research that a cub reporter at Boys’ Life would think to do.

    • Agree: David, The Anti-Gnostic
    • Troll: L.K, tac
    • Replies: @Jonathan Revusky
    @Frederick V. Reed

    At this point in time, seventeen years after the events of 9/11/2001, there is a huge literature on this event, probably surpassing what existed on the Kennedy assassination at a comparable point in time.

    Surely you have read some of it, Mr. Reed. Could you provide a bibliography of the books you have read on the topic and a short precis on why you found a given book convincing (or not)?

    Or heck, how about for even one book you tag on the topic? Can you do that?

    Well, to put it bluntly, I'm accusing you of intellectual fraud, which should be considered a serious matter and merit a reply.

    A failure to reply to this would constitute a tacit admission that my accusation is correct.

    Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike, @jilles dykstra, @peterAUS, @Quartermaster

    , @Mike P
    @Frederick V. Reed


    The Nine-Eleven conspiracy theory will remain a fringe curiosity until the CATs show that it was physically possible.
     
    Who has the burden proof here? It has been amply demonstrated that the official conspiracy theory is physically impossible. Considering that a proper forensic analysis was never carried out, and that anyone trying to analyze this therefore has to work with fragmentary data, it is absurd to demand that the truth community demonstrate in the minutest detail how exactly the explosions were carried out.

    For example, most organic explosives (like TNT or nitroglycerin) will burn up without a trace, unlike nanothermite. So, if nanothermite is all we find, that doesn't mean that nothing else was used - but without cooperation from the actual perpetrators, we have no way of knowing what additional explosives may have been used. However, the abundance of nanothermite in the dust clearly proves that explosives were used.

    Anyone who, in light of these facts, still honestly believes the official fairy tale is obviously feeble-minded.

    , @Carroll Price
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Take heart. Two hundred years after Magellan had circumnavigated the world proving it round, 80% of the world's population continued believing it was flat. Some still do.

    , @ploni almoni
    @Frederick V. Reed

    All you have to do is open your eyes.

    , @eah
    @Frederick V. Reed

    do the basic research

    Actually, what I will call 'The Duck Law' is perhaps relevant here: 'If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck' -- metaphorically speaking, in the current context WTC-7 is the duck -- re the twin towers: man, for two buildings just supposedly falling down, that was a helluva lot of dust.

    , @Harold Smith
    @Frederick V. Reed

    If I ever decide to burn my house down to collect insurance money, after publicly going on record telling people that it might happen; after neighbors witness me acting suspiciously beforehand; after neighbors complain of a strong kerosene smell in the area beforehand; after getting caught telling lies and acting suspiciously after the fact; after having the debris hauled away before the state police fire marshal can examine the scene; etc., I want you on the jury when they put me on trial for arson.

    Replies: @Prusmc

    , @republic
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Reed wrote this in Unz on September 15, 2016

    https://www.unz.com/freed/legion-of-the-tinfoil-hat/

    It was an obvious disinfo attempt to discredit the 9/11 truth movement.
    Many readers here on Unz remember it. It destroyed his reputation among many here.

    Many commentators here on Unz have different theories as to why Reed is putting out false information on 9/11 as well as his pro Mexican open borders stance.

    , @tac
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Well at least things are beginning to turn (not holding my breath), but here is an update to the Lawyer's Committee for 9/11 Inquiry:


    Breakthrough: U.S. Attorney Agrees to Present Evidence of World Trade Center Demolition to Federal Grand Jury

    Finally, after 17 long years, the 9/11 Truth Movement has opened an avenue to prosecuting those responsible for the shocking destruction of the World Trade Center and the horrible loss of life that resulted.

    Last spring, the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry — together with more than a dozen 9/11 family members and with help from AE911Truth — filed a petition with the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan demanding that he present evidence of unprosecuted federal crimes at the World Trade Center to a special grand jury.

    Then, in November, came the big news: The U.S. Attorney notified the Lawyers’ Committee in writing that he would comply with the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3332 requiring him to relay their report to a special grand jury.

    Now the Lawyers’ Committee and AE911Truth need your support so we can work to ensure a thorough and successful grand jury investigation.

    https://lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org/2018/12/10/10-dec-2018-grand-jury-investigation-project-launches/

     

    https://youtu.be/bwPXPrutaDc
  • That’s the law. Nothing can be done about it. And that’s the liberal reaction to any rational action to stop the stampede of uneducated, unruly, fractious, antagonistic masses toward and over the U.S. southern border. Liberals call law-enforcement unlawful. Or, they shoehorn the act of holding the line into the unlawful category. Prevent uninvited masses...
  • I dont get it. I read many pieces like this one, and all are correct. At least three billion people would come to the US if they could. Not all are especially undesirable in themselves, but diversity is always troulbe. The open borders people are not actually stupid. So why do they do it? I have friends in South Africa who tell a horrible story of what goes. MS |3 is almost as bad. Why do the googoos do this? My impression is that they are mad at their parents andthis is their way of getting evern. No?

    • Replies: @WorkingClass
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I view willful ignorance as a subset of stupidity. That's why we call them useful idiots.

    Replies: @Bill H, @Realist

    , @jacques sheete
    @Frederick V. Reed


    but diversity is always troulbe.
     
    Oh, it is? Yes, I grant you that what the goons are passing as "diversity" nowadays is big trouble, but true diversity (especially of thought) makes the world richer.

    The open borders people are not actually stupid. So why do they do it?
     
    I'm old enough to remember when the great Melting Pot concept was praised to the hills, and I remember when that began to change as well. You know why that began to change too.

    I have friends in South Africa who tell a horrible story of what goes. MS |3 is almost as bad. Why do the googoos do this? My impression is that they are mad at their parents andthis is their way of getting evern. No?
     
    Those responsible are evidently mad at the world, love the sadistic perversity of playing the victim card, and of watching the goyim dance to their tunes and destroy each other. It's deja vu all over again, the Mercers of the world keep shilling for it, and the gulls keep falling for it.
    , @Authenticjazzman
    @Frederick V. Reed

    " Why do the googoos do this"

    Very simple : Because they are insane, and they are pushing relentlessly towards a communist "Workers paradise", which of course will never manifest, and instead will lead to pandemonia, bloodshed and the end of the US, and westen Europe.

    Authenticjazzman "Mensa" qualified since 1973, airborne trained US army vet, and pro Jazz performer.

    Replies: @jacques sheete

  • I think there is a rule in the application of science in medical settings: the first big step is taken by the person least suitable to take it. Consider, for example, the first heart transplant. It was carried out by a showman surgeon who jumped the gun and did the operation before the problem of...
  • Good or bad, right or wrong, hissy fits and hair-pulling or no, it is going to happen, and presumably China will maintain the lead because it will do the rewearch. Why the silly capitalization of the final R?

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You are growing surprisingly philosophical for someone who's written that philosophy is a disease :).

    However, yes: technology and techno-science already rule humans while the latter still think they rule. So, anything that becomes capable of being attempted, will.
    The only discrimination is between doing it publicly or unofficially and behind the curtains.

    In China, as well as in the US and elsewhere.

    , @RaceRealist88
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Using this logic, why try to stop anything since it's going to happen anyway?

    The fact of the matter is that there are serious issues to contend with here and just saying 'it's going to happen anyway so why do anything' doesn't make sense.

    Should immoral actions be stopped? Why or why not?

    Replies: @Biff

  • Depending on the context, the small word "why" can be totally innocuous or it can be just about the most subversive and even sacrilegious word one can utter. This is probably why I love this word so much: it's ability to unleash tremendous power against all sorts of sacred cows and unchallenged beliefs. So, today...
  • In re veterans, just so and well said. As amoral as Guido and Vito breaking a shopkeeper’s legs. If ordered to bomb Switzerland, they would do and pride themselves on it.

    Regarding Nine-Eleven: Until someone who actually know the business of controlled demolition shows what specifically would have been needed, used how without being noticed, to produce the collapse, it will remain just another empty conspiracy theory.

    • Agree: James Speaks
    • Replies: @NoseytheDuke
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Regarding Nine-Eleven: Until someone who actually knows anything at all about the Laws of physics shows specifically just how low intensity fires could cause the explosions that produced the collapses all the way to the ground, it will remain just another infantile coincidence theory.

    Replies: @James Speaks, @L.K

    , @The scalpel
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Regarding the article, been there, done that, have the Court Martial to prove it.

    How to Defeat the US Army in Your Underpants
    http://thescalpel.net/underpantsl.html

    , @Simply Simon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Agree with Fred. Every large controlled demolition I witnessed shows massive explosions at ground level. If that had happened it would have shown on the videos that were taken. In addition no one would have been able to escape from the buildings as hundreds did before the collapse. Why didn't the Empire State building collapse when it was struck by a B-25? The B-25 is about a tenth as large as a Boeing 737 and only carries 600 gallons of fuel fully loaded.

    Replies: @JLK, @nsa, @James Speaks, @anarchyst, @Wally

    , @Paul2
    @Frederick V. Reed

    It is just one of the ridiculous pseudo-arguments of the 9/11-deniers or false-flag-deniers that you demand some explanation that somehow you claim has not been given.

    It is totally obvious and undeniable that WTC1, 2 and 7 were destroyed by pre-placed explosives.

    Re WTC7 a controlled demolition is the only way a building can “collapse” in free-fall.

    Re WTC 1+2 you can SEE and HEAR the demolition in the video footage. Plus constant acceleration an 2/3 of gravity, lateral and upward ejections of huge steel elements, total pulverisation of the concrete, destruction without a trace of a lot of the victims inside the buildings, bone fragments on top of adjacent buildings, fires that burned for months, ... give me a break.

    Specifically we even know about the use of Nano-Thermite as one of the tools used, because traced of it and masses of its reaction-products have been found in the dust of 9/11 in NY.

    I think only a person who is totally uneducated or ignorant, or brain-washed, or simply stupid can believe the “official” narrative.

    , @Harold Smith
    @Frederick V. Reed

    "Regarding Nine-Eleven: Until someone who actually know the business of controlled demolition shows what specifically would have been needed, used how without being noticed, to produce the collapse, it will remain just another empty conspiracy theory."

    If it's an "empty conspiracy theory" then it obviously doesn't need an investigation, right? And without an investigation no details as to exactly how when, where, why, etc., will likely be forthcoming, thus it's just an "empty conspiracy theory"...and being that it's just an empty conspiracy theory it obviously doesn't need an investigation, and without an investigation no details as to exactly how when, where, why, etc., will likely be forthcoming, thus it's just an "empty conspiracy theory"...and being that it's just an empty conspiracy theory it obviously doesn't need an investigation, and without an investigation no details as to exactly how when, where, why, etc., will likely be forthcoming, thus it's just an "empty conspiracy theory"...and on and on forever.

    Replies: @Den Lille Abe

    , @Harold Smith
    @Frederick V. Reed

    "Regarding Nine-Eleven: Until someone who actually know the business of controlled demolition shows what specifically would have been needed, used how without being noticed, to produce the collapse, it will remain just another empty conspiracy theory."

    I wonder if Fred's house burnt down under suspicious circumstances, e.g., there was some evidence that an accelerant was involved; and neighbors reported suspicious activity near the house before the fire started; and then Fred had the debris hauled away before it could be examined; and as a matter of public record Fred announced beforehand that his house might burn down; and Fred was known to be having financial problems; and Fred was caught telling a lie about the circumstances; and Fred sought to collect a huge insurance payment, etc.; would the state police fire marshal dismiss it all as an "empty conspiracy theory". I think not; rather, I think Fred would be in some serious trouble.

    , @Low Voltage
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The only interesting question remaining about 911 is whether the same group who planned the destruction of the twin towers also demolished WTC 7. Even though all three supposedly succumbed to fire, WTC 7 resembles a classic demolition while 1 and 2 exploded. These were obviously different techniques at work.

    I began to wonder if some rival faction within the establishment demolished WTC 7 just to spoil the cover story for the Bin Laden angle for leverage in other areas, or the did the perpetrators themselves do it so the American people would have no plausible deniability when the day of reckoning finally comes? After all, what sort of infantile and wicked population could allow the crimes committed by its government after such a preposterous false flag operation? Surely, they deserve to be stripped of everything they have (especially Social Security ;).

    , @ploni almoni
    @Frederick V. Reed

    For a controlled demolition you need access to the site (easy when you own it), explosives and know how. Much easier than flying planes into buildings where you have to get past NORAD. Also controlled demolitions are done all the time to buildings which are not up to code and un-needed. For an illegal demolition it would be clever to make it look like an act of terrorism. There, that was not so difficult to understand, was it? People set fires for insurance money all the time. What it is special is when the government is involved, but we understand the world we live in, don't we?

    , @Jonathan Revusky
    @Frederick V. Reed


    it will remain just another empty conspiracy theory.
     
    You know, here we are, 17 years after the 9/11 event, and, like the JFK assassination, it has spawned a vast literature -- probably too much for anybody to read all of it.

    But surely you've read some of it, no? Otherwise, you would be engaging in blatant intellectual fraud, as far as I can see...

    So, Mr. Reed, could you summarize what books on 9/11 that you have read? In particular any ones from the "Truther" perspective that you read, could you summarize why you did not find them convincing?

    Replies: @NoseytheDuke

  • Robert Plomin. Blueprint. Allen Lane, London. 2018 Plomin has written the book that summarizes his career, the one that he previously avoided writing because of what he describes as his own cowardice. Harsh judgement, but investigators into the genetics of intelligence are given a rough ride in contemporary academia, where genetics generates a hostility not...
  • Are we not certigying the obvious? Any dog breeder, or owner, can tell you that intelligence and personality are very largely genetic.

    “Success and failure – and credit and blame – in overcoming problems should be calibrated relative to genetic strengths and weaknesses.” This is very good news for racial apologists. Before, they said that a black rapist did it because of his childhood, oppression, and so on. Now there is rock-solid scientific evidence that he was largely predestined genettically, with a bad childhood for an increaded discount. If a genetic analysis shows that he is fifty percent predestined to offend, does he get half a normal sentence? It sounds like a Get out of jail free card. And do we do jury selection by geneitc heritability of vengefulness against empaty?

    • Replies: @JLK
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You are correct that it raises a lot of policy questions. Better to make policy based on the facts than on myths, though.

    , @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The obvious is always what can't be said — hence there is some merit in certifying it, I'd say.

    As to get-out-of-jail free cards, you reason as if people were to be imprisoned for the sake of administering punishment to them. It seems to me that in our time they are imprisoned to prevent them from committing other outlaw actions (outlaw actions being the sort of crimes a wide enough majority of people have evolved past committing, thus want to be outlawed. Offences a high enough number of people still want to commit are safe from being outlawed, of course, as are they from being labeled crimes).

    , @utu
    @Frederick V. Reed


    It sounds like a Get out of jail free card.
     
    No, it does not. You do not repair faulty machine for ever, you send them to a scrap yard. In the world of IQism we are all machines. Though penalties, moralizing, guilt tripping and shaming may still work for some machines just like putting software patches in some computer. Machines are better when running the software not believing they are machines. You will see what will happen when the IQists will finally succeeded convince Afro-Americans they are inferior machines. Machines who run the software believing they are machines are more deadly to other machines. The IQsts run software believing they are superior machines.

    Replies: @HallParvey

  • White racism towards African Americans causes black adolescents to become depressed, to underachieve academically, become violent, join gangs and take drugs!—this is the unequivocal message of a new meta-analysis recently published in the top journal American Psychologist, the journal of the American Psychological Association [Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Well-Being During Adolescence, by Aprile Benner et al.,...
  • Some of this doesn’t add up. Mexicans do not have particularly poor impulse control. In sixteen years here, I have never seen even a shouting match. The narcos kill each other, but it is calculated. Mexican schools are orderly with none of the violence said to occur in the US . The CIA Factbook puts literacy at ninedty-five percent.

    Colombia has a mean IQ of 84, yet runs airlines, which means maintaining avionics and big turbofans, has functional telecommunications, builds entirely modern cities, etc. There is no inconsistency if you say, clearly, without the usual evasion, that IQ 84 is sufficient to do these things. But then you have to say that American blacks, mean IQ 85, can also do these things. Then why don’t they? We are left with cultural and societal explanations, such as April touts.

    • Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
    @Frederick V. Reed


    But then you have to say that American blacks, mean IQ 85, can also do these things. Then why don’t they? We are left with cultural and societal explanations, such as April touts.
     
    Maybe IQ is just one factor among others? Maybe it's important, but not as significant as most IQers think it is? Maybe there are other, innate "biological" variables (hence, not societal-cultural) which should be accounted for?

    A look at history could be rewarding.

    Why did these Native American peoples build great civilizations (Olmecs, Mayas, Mixtecs, Toltecs, Aztecs, Incas,..)? And, sub-Saharan blacks- none?

    , @Franklin Ryckaert
    @Frederick V. Reed

    A country with an average IQ of 84 can still produce a minority with an IQ high enough to run a modern society, provided it makes the formulation of its directives simple enough for its lower personnel to follow.

    African countries don't have the same average IQ as American Blacks, which is 85, but run the gamut from 59 (Equatorial Guinea) to 77 (Zambia). For such countries to produce an elite with an IQ high enough to run a modern society is far more difficult.

    I know only about two relatively successful Black countries : Barbados (average IQ 78) and Botswana (average IQ 72). One has to take into account special circumstances in these cases. Probably good advice from a small White minority.

    Replies: @jilles dykstra

  • This week Russian officials declared that the delivery of S-300s for Syria was completed and that this first batch included 49 pieces of “military equipment”, including radars, control vehicles and four launchers. Russian officials added that, if needed, this figure could be increased to 8-12 launchers. Defense Minister Shoigu added that “the measures we will...
  • Is there, or will there be, any comment on the effectiveness of Russsian air defense against the F-35s? In Russian Insider I find apocalyptic assertions that stealth is or shortly will be dead, welcome news if true, but nothing of substance.

    • Replies: @Andrei Martyanov
    @Frederick V. Reed


    In Russian Insider I find apocalyptic assertions that stealth is or shortly will be dead,
     
    You found it from my blog post which RI frivolously reposted and renamed without consulting me (as usual--it seems to be their MO) , but on substance--the answer is simple: signal processing based on modern processors and sensor fusion. Russians weren't too worried about so called "stealth" since late 1990s. Latest Vostok 2018 exercises which included a massive use of Air Defense systems involved a huge variety of VLO targets--didn't seem to be a problem. Knowing how Russians test and exercise--that wasn't a boasting. Russia/USSR is traditionally one of the leaders, if not the leader, in radar technology. I will abstain from going here into the whole "stealth" myth but under good RLP I had no problems tracking single birds on several different radar systems miles and miles away and this was in 1980s. Things changed since then. This is in general.
    , @FB
    @Frederick V. Reed

    The idea of 'stealth' aircraft is in fact mostly a gimmick designed to enrich the military contractors...it doesn't actually work very well at all, as proved in 1999 when the Serb air defense, using ancient Soviet surface to air missiles of 1950s vintage, shot down the USAF F117 aircraft...and damaged another that was then written off, and therefore counts as a kill...

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/F-117_canopy.jpg

    --F117 canopy displayed at the Belgrade Aviation Museum

    But let's look at the idea of 'low observable' aircraft technology in a little more detail, and how it may be countered by air defense...

    Let's start at the beginning...the physics behind 'stealth' was developed by a Russian scientist named Petr Ufimtsev...who is now known as the 'father of stealth'...

    Ufimtsev, working at the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, developed a coherent theory on the behavior of radio wave scattering off solid objects...he published his seminal work Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction in 1962...the Soviet military saw no real value in this and allowed it to be published...

    In 1971, the USAF translated this work into English and a couple of engineers at Lockheed realized that Ufimtsev had provided the mathematical foundation to predict how radar waves deflect off an aircraft...it was a lightbulb moment...the main insight of Ufimtsev's work was that the size of a radar return was more a function of the edge geometry of the aircraft than its actual size...

    Retired USAF Lt Colonel William B O'Connor, who flew the F117 gives a good telling of the story here...

    The end result is that the F117 and B2 were developed by programming Ufimtsev's math into powerful computers in order to come up with aircraft shaping geometry that minimized radar reflection...subsequent 'low observable' aircraft like the F22 and F35 all build on this basic physics...

    Now while the idea of reducing an aircraft's radar return sounds good in principle...it has a lot of real-world drawbacks...for instance the shaping can only be optimized for one particular aspect, such as a head-on...if the aircraft turns into a bank for instance...its radar return will increase by as much as 100 fold...owing to the simple fact that a banking aircraft exposes its broad underbelly, which has no way to be optimized to also be 'stealthy'...the shaping cannot accomplish the same result of scattering radio waves off in all directions, from all angles...

    There are other challenges...the vertical tail surfaces will also bounce back radio waves...this is why a tailless, flying wing design like the B2 is better suited to the task...but this kind of configuration brings with it compromises in aircraft maneuverability and agility...

    Aside from the aircraft geometry, which is the main means of achieving 'low observability'...there are also special coatings that are designed to 'absorb' radio waves...although this is only of limited effectiveness and depends a lot on the thickness of the rubbery coating...I had the opportunity to physically examine a piece of the wreckage of that F117 shot down in Serbia, and the thickness and weight of that coating was surprising...it was about 1/16 inch thick in places along the vertical stabilizers and seemed to weigh more than the underlying composite honeycomb structure itself [typical of Lockheed lightweight structural design]...

    This additional weight is a major disadvantage of 'stealth' aircraft...aircraft must be as light as possible to perform well...that is just basic physics...but these logical design considerations have seemingly been sidelined in what can only be explained as a money-making gimmick that only detracts from actual aircraft capability...

    Col Everest E Riccioni, one the USAF's most legendary test pilots and Air Force Academy instructors has probably done more than anyone to debunk the 'stealth' nonsense...his 2005 report on the F22 is insightful reading and proved quite prescient about the failure of this aircraft to become anything more than a glorified hangar queen...

    The F35 is far worse of course...but Col Riccioni passed away before he could fully train his guns on this very deficient aircraft...

    The fact of the matter is that the F117 was more 'stealthy' than the F22 or F35...this due to its faceted design wherein the airframe shape was defined largely by a series of flat plates...[remember that the whole physics of radio reflection boils down to edge geometry...]

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/F-117_Nighthawk_Front.jpg

    The current MIC propaganda is that the faceted shape is not necessary due to improved supercomputers that can calculate the math for curved surfaces...well, the physical fact is that curved surfaces reflect in all directions and no amount of 'supercomputing' can change that...Col Riccioni, who is no slouch in physics, having designed and taught the first graduate-level course in astronautics at the USAF Academy, confirms that the F117 was a more 'stealthy' design than the F22...and the F35 is considered not as stealthy as the F22...

    As for defending against 'low observable' aircraft with surface to air missiles [SAMs]...let us review some of the pertinent factors that go into this equation...a SAM system consists basically of powerful radars that spot and track enemy aircraft and guide a missile shot to the target...the only way to kill a SAM system by means of an attacking aircraft is to target its radars with a special type of missile that homes in on radio signals...known as anti-radiation missiles [HARMs]...such as the US AGM88...

    The problem becomes one of reach...how far can the SAM missiles reach...and how far can the HARMs reach...?

    A long range SAM like the S300/400 wins this contest easily...the S300 can hit targets as far as 250 km away [400 km for S400]...while the best Harms can reach about 150 km at most...and that's if fired at high aircraft speed and altitude...so it becomes a question of how do you get within the SAM missile kill zone to fire your Harm in the first place...?

    In the 1999 bombing of Serbia, the US and 18 participating Nato allies mustered over 1,000 aircraft and fired a total of over 700 Harms at Serb air defenses, over the course of 78 days...but managed to knock out only three 1970s era mobile SAM units...the 2K12 'Kub'...

    A good account of that operation was published by Dr Benjamin Lambeth in 2002, in the USAF's flagship technical publication, Aerospace Power Journal...

    This campaign was truly a David vs Goliath match, yet the Serbs effectively fought the alliance to a draw...


    NATO never fully succeeded in neutralizing the Serb IADS [integrated air defense system], and NATO aircraft operating over Serbia and Kosovo were always within the engagement envelopes of enemy SA-3 and SA-6 missiles— envelopes that extended as high as 50,000 feet.

    Because of that persistent threat, mission planners had to place such high-value surveillance-and-reconnaissance platforms as the U-2 and JSTARS in less-than-ideal orbits to keep them outside the lethal reach of enemy SAMs.

    Even during the operation’s final week, NATO spokesmen conceded that they could confirm the destruction of only three of Serbia’s approximately 25 known mobile SA-6 batteries.'
     
    Lambeth notes that things could have been much different had the Serbs had the S300...

    'One SA-10/12 [early S300 variant] site in Belgrade and one in Pristina could have provided defensive coverage over all of Serbia and Kosovo. They also could have threatened Rivet Joint, Compass Call, and other key allied aircraft such as the airborne command and control center and the Navy’s E-2C operating well outside enemy airspace.

    Fortunately for NATO, the Serb IADS did not include the latest-generation SAM equipment currently available on the international arms market.'
     
    Since 1999, the last major SEAD [suppression of enemy air defense] operation by Nato...the Russian air defense capabilities have only become more lethal...the radars employed on the S300/400 series are phased array types which are very difficult to jam and much more precise in guiding a missile to the target...

    Phased array means that instead of a parabolic dish, the antenna consists of several thousand individual antenna elements that are electronically steered in order to create a very precise radar beam...[instead of a dish antenna being mechanically rotated and tilted]...

    When it comes to air defense it's really mostly about the radar...Dr Carlo Kopp, an expert on Russian air defense systems notes that even the early iterations of the S300 engagement radar were a huge step forward in capability...

    'With electronic beam steering, very low sidelobes and a narrow pencil beam mainlobe, the 30N6 phased array is more difficult to detect and track by an aircraft's warning receiver when not directly painted by the radar, and vastly more difficult to jam.

    While it may have detectable backlobes, these are likely to be hard to detect from the forward sector of the radar. As most anti-radiation missiles rely on sidelobes to home in, the choice of engagement geometry is critical in attempting to kill a Flap Lid.'
     
    http://ausairpower.net/PVO-S/92N6-Grave-Stone-MiroslavGyurosi-1S.jpg

    Shown is the latest generation 92N6 'Grave Stone' engagement radar used with S300/400 systems...the engagement radar actually guides the missile shot, while separate early warning and acquisition and tracking radars first detect the target, then cue the engagement radar to point to the target and guide the missile shot...

    Another important point with the S300 transfer to Syria that is overlooked in this article is the option to hybridize the Syrian S200 missiles with the S300 radars...

    In this scenario the weakest link of the S200 is eliminated...its obsolete parabolic dish type engagement radar...the S200 missile is instead guided to the target by the formidable new S300/400 radars...

    'In this arrangement, an SA-20/21 system with its high power aperture and highly jam resistant acquisition and engagement radars prosecutes an engagement, but rather than launching its organic 48N6 series missile rounds, it uses the SA-5 Gammon round instead...

    The challenge which a hybrid SA-5/SA-20/SA-21 system presents is considerable. The SA-20/21 battery is highly mobile, and with modern digital frequency hopping radars, will be difficult to jam.

    Soft kill and hard kill become problematic. In terms of defeating the SA-5 component of the hybrid, the only option is to jam the missile CW homing seeker, the effectiveness of which will depend entirely on the vintage of the 5G24N series seeker and the capabilities of the jamming equipment. If the customer opts for an upgrade to the seeker electronics, the seeker may be digital and very difficult to jam.'
     
    This could be the most important part of the story, since the Syrians have a large number of S200 systems...it is certain that a number of additional S300/400 radars have been delivered as part of that '49 pieces' reported in Russian media...and these powerful and fully mobile radars [truck mounted] will be used to modernize the S200 network...

    It is worth noting also that SAM mobility is a key advance of the S300/400 systems...the various radars and the missile launchers are all mounted on large trucks and are designed for five minute shoot and scoot...this mobility proved key to the Nato difficulty with Serbian SAMs, even though those old systems were not designed for that, but the Serbs nonetheless would dismantle and move the fixed radars and launchers on a regular basis...

    In order to attack a SAM with an aircraft you first have to know where it is...the only way to know is when it turns on its radar at which point it may be too late if it is pointed at you...after taking the shot, the whole thing packs up and moves in five minutes flat [the Patriot takes 30 minutes by comparison]...

    It should be noted here that these mobile Russian search and acquisition radars are extremely powerful...the 'Big Bird' series is in the same class as the Aegis radar mounted on USN missile cruisers and destroyers...

    'The 64N6E Big Bird is the key to much of the improved engagement capability, and ballistic missile intercept capability in the later S-300P variants.

    This system operates in the 2 GHz band and is a phased array with a 30% larger aperture than the US Navy SPY-1 Aegis radar, even accounting for its slightly larger wavelength it amounts to a mobile land based Aegis class package. It has no direct equivalent in the West.'
     
    http://ausairpower.net/PVO-S/91N6E-Big-Bird-S-400-1S.jpg

    http://ausairpower.net/PVO-S/64N6-vs-SPY-1-A.jpg

    The final piece of the puzzle when it comes to countering 'stealth' aircraft is a special category of radar designed specifically for that purpose...these operate at much lower frequencies [ie longer wavelength] which renders the stealth shaping useless...since the physics dictates that aircraft features shorter than the radar wavelength cannot produce the desired scattering effect...as Col Riccioni notes...

    [The F22's] radar signature is admittedly small in the forward quarter but only to airborne radars. The aircraft is detectable by high-power, low-frequency ground based radars...

    ...it is physically impossible to design shapes and radar absorptive material to simultaneously defeat low power, high-frequency enemy fighter radars, and high power, low-frequency ground based radars.'
     
    Kopp gives a good overview of the advanced Russian anti-stealth radars in this category...

    The system uses a series of radars of varying wavelength...each mounted on a mobile chassis as with all the modern Russian SAM radars...the long wavelength radar finds the 'stealth' target easily and then cues a shorter wavelength radar to further pinpoint the target, which, in turn, cues the engagement radar that guides the missile shot...

    http://ausairpower.net/PVO-S/NNIIRT-55Zh6ME-Nebo-M-RLS-A.jpg

    Shown is such a deployment of three radars and a command vehicle in the background...

    All told, the upgrade of the Syrian air defenses now presents a very formidable system...it should be noted that the S200 missile when used with these powerful radars could be an especially deadly combination...this rocket was until 2009 the longest range SAM rocket in the world, with a maximum range of up to 375 km...

    Unlike modern SAM missiles that use solid propellant rocket motors [basically a bottle rocket]...the S200 uses a real liquid fuel rocket engine...it has a top speed of 2.5 km/s which is actually faster than the S400 rockets...and the liquid engine means it can be throttled to decrease or increase its speed [minimum flying speed is 700 m/s]...something that a solid rocket cannot do...

    In the right hands, this combination of advanced S300 radars and the superb kinematic performance of the S200 missile could be a deadly combination...the fact that Syria has a lot of these S200 missiles means that adding those S300 radars makes it a whole new ballgame...we already saw back in February when an S200 shot down an Israeli F16 in Israeli airspace...there are unconfirmed reports that a second aircraft was hit and possibly destroyed...

    The question of Israeli F35s trying to attack these mobile S300 SAMs is not really a serious consideration for any air combat practitioner...the F35 has terrible flight characteristics such as very high wing loading, which directly affects its turning ability...[think of running with a 100 lb backpack and how that might affect your maneuverability]...

    The basic flight physics of this airplane are terrible, as many qualified experts have pointed out...it would be difficult to envisage how it could play a role in mounting an attack against these Syrian S300s...

    The only realistic option to attack such an air defense zone would be to use the mountainous terrain along the Levant coast and fly a nap of the earth mission with highly maneuverable fighters like the F15 and F16 to try to hide from radar in the mountains...and get close enough to deliver a Harm missile to an S300 radar...

    But this would be a very risky mission...especially considering that the Russians are flying their AWACS planes over Syria, so even terrain following is not going to work in trying to hide...

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    , @Carroll Price
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Stealth technology makes targets more difficult to detect, but not invisible. Advanced radar systems like those Russia is assumed to have may have already rendered stealth technology obsolete.

  • See also: Of Mice and Men: ”Spiteful Mutations” Look Bad For The West Between 1968 and 1973, a fascinating experiment took place at the University of Maryland. Led by the startlingly creative scientist John B. Calhoun (1917-1995). Tts aim was to understand what would happen if Darwinian selection massively weakened. [Death Squared: The explosive growth...
  • The authorI presume has examined the brains of prehistoric humans and has contemporary accounts of their use of hands in communication, as otherwise all of this would be sheer speculation.

    What does “collapse of Darwinian selection” mean? Selection cannnot collapse. It adapts to existent conditionsl. A welfare mother with an IQ of 50 and thierteen retarded children is adapting to environmental conditions, namely welfare. It is not a collapse. The author seems to thik that evoltuion has a direction. It does not.

    • Agree: Beckow
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred, I think what the author means by Darwinian selection is that in the past we could expect to see a certain percentage of people (especially males) culled from our population due to war, disease, starvation, etc etc.

    Having less people die is presumably a good thing for society, but not without its consequences.

    , @BamBam Rubble
    @Frederick V. Reed


    What does “collapse of Darwinian selection” mean? Selection cannnot collapse. It adapts to existent conditionsl. A welfare mother with an IQ of 50 and thierteen retarded children is adapting to environmental conditions, namely welfare. It is not a collapse.
     
    You continue to misunderstand evolution, Fred. No problem, as many, if not most, people do not understand it. You're getting old -- to the age where one begins to be sure that one's opinion is inevitably correct. No biggie -- I'm almost there meself.

    Natural selection is not an active process. It is not directed. It has no consciousness, no goal, no motivation. Those who survive to reproduce are products of selection; existing environmental factors provide the mechanism.

    When there's no food, everyone dies -- there's no survival possible. Individuals who are bigger, stronger, smarter die along with the rest. When a disease attacks a population, everyone susceptible dies: only those with resistance to that specific disease/organism survive to reproduce. Individuals who are bigger, stronger, smarter die along with the rest.

    Natural selection is not a question of "better", but one of sufficiency. If one CAN survive in a specific circumstance, one might. Those who can't, don't.

    It's very simple.

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    , @anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Drinking before noon again.

  • Yesterday (Sept 19th), I tried to post a short commentary suggesting that before we jump to conclusions about anything, we ought to wait for the fact to come out. But to no avail. The chorus of “Putin is a doormat!!”, “bomb Israel!!” and similar inanities is carrying on, louder than ever. Reading that crazy nonsense,...
  • Thishiding-behind story ssounds odd. Israeli ECM can’t handle S-200s, which they knew were there? I thought, subject to correction, that the S200 would have a mechanically scanned radar, being quite old, and therefore subject to range-gate pull-off and side-lobe pentration and all that standard ECM stuff. Would not the Israelis know well the charactersitics of AA sysstems they were flying against? But maybe not.

    What is the geomatry of this story? The radar shadow of the Russian plane would be a cone whose width at a given distance would be a function of the Russians’ proximity to the radar and the Israelis’ distance from the Russian plane on the far side. Since F16s are not helicopters, to stay in the shadow they would have to fly on a line connecting the radar and the Russian plane—that is, directly toward it or away from it. So the Israelis notice that they are being tracked, instantly decide that they will hide behind the Russian plane, and do the naneuvering necessaray to….It all sounds like a pure Syrian IFF fuck-up, not an Israeli conjob.

    • Replies: @Andrei Martyanov
    @Frederick V. Reed


    fly on a line connecting the radar and the Russian plane—that is, directly toward it or away from it. So the Israelis notice that they are being tracked, instantly decide that they will hide behind the Russian plane, and do the naneuvering necessaray to….It all sounds like a pure Syrian IFF fuck-up, not an Israeli conjob.
     
    OK. Obviously the issue of signal processing in old S-200 matters here, same as angular separation if any between targets, which in such systems is related directly to operator(s) skills. But that's the point--the oldest trick in the book was applied to a Russian aircraft and that is what matters here. Apart, from the fact that IAF really violated a key agreement between Russia and Israel by penetrating the forbidden zone. It becomes, thus, not merely technical but political issue and consequences must follow.

    On the other hand--agree completely, Syria's AD "operators" guilt is undeniable and it is just the matter of figuring out if it was the pressure of combat moment and the fog of war, or if there was something else involved--which is a competence of military counter-intelligence organs there.
    , @Andrei Martyanov
    @Frederick V. Reed


    .It all sounds like a pure Syrian IFF fuck-up, not an Israeli conjob.
     
    When Powers was shot down in his U-2 over USSR, the other downed aircraft was Soviet Aviation of PVO MiG-17 (or 19--don't remember from the top of my head). A classic case of "friendly fire".

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  • Back in 1999 I was invited to join Steve Sailer's HBD email group, where I encountered all sorts of interesting people. The participants were mostly intellectuals or journalists having sharply heterodox views about racial differences, especially those involving IQ and crime, and this was reflected in the somewhat euphemistic title, which stood for "Human Bio-Diversity."...
  • Controlled demolition is a highly technical and specialized field. For example, there are formulas specifying how much of what kind of explosive in what form placed where on particular shape of girder of what kind of steel are needed to cut it. Saying “nanothermite” over and over is not a technical explanation. It is very possible that I have missed something, but everything I have read on the matter has been vague, liberal-artsy, and devoid of the slightest familiarity with the use of explosives. I have seen no indication that anyone has done the research to tell an LSC from a ham sandwich. A competent reporter’s first step would be to interview people at CDI to see what would be necessary to drop the buildings. Having established that the prepping could be done without being overwhelmingly obvious, the truthers would be in a far stronger position. I am puzzled by the apparent lack of interest in the technical questions. I.e., possibility.

    If the truthers want to convince others of the conspiracy, they need to make it plausible to the intelligent layman. They have not, at least if I qualify as an intelligent layman. The vagueness and fluidity make the story hard to accept or to critique. As an old newsman, I can assure you that without a whole lot more substance and fewer contradictions the controlled-demolition theory would never get past a desk editor. This, not complicity, is why the press ignores conspiracy theories. If truthers want to be taken seriously outside their own ranks, they need to decide on one story and answer questions about it rationally. Perhaps they can. So far as I know, they haven’t

    • Agree: James N. Kennett
    • Replies: @utu
    @Frederick V. Reed


    If the truthers want to convince others of the conspiracy, they need to make it plausible to the intelligent layman.
     
    Is there an area that you are not a dilettante outside of booze and cigars? So you surely qualify as a layman. The intelligence however might be a problem.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6D4dla17aA

    Danny Jowenko died in car crash few days after the video was aired.

    Structural Reevaluation of the Collapse of World Trade Center 7
    http://ine.uaf.edu/projects/wtc7/
    http://www.wtc7evaluation.org

    Update from Dr. Leroy Hulsey on the UAF WTC 7 Study (March 27, 2018)
    https://www.ae911truth.org/news/444-update-from-dr-leroy-hulsey-on-the-uaf-wtc7-study
    We had planned to release our findings for public review early this year. However, research often takes unexpected turns, and the more complicated the problem, the more difficult it is to predict the completion date. We are still in the process of studying hypothetical collapse mechanisms and attempting to simulate the building’s failure. Our goal is to determine, with a high degree of confidence, the sequence of failures that may have caused the observed collapse and to rule out those mechanisms that could not have caused the observed collapse.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYV33LKDY8k

    , @jilles dykstra
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Indeed.
    Dutch VPRO tv showed an expert in demolition how the 47 story building collapsed.
    His surprised reaction: no doubt whatsoever, demolished with ground floor explosives.

    As to the demolitions of the tower, amateur job.
    The explosions followed each other downwards quicker than gravity could explain, far too much explosive was used, three weeks or so after Sept 11 cellars full of still fluid molten steel.

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    , @Malaysian Truther
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Mr. Reed,

    Its very convenient for the official story that all of the alleged perpetrators bar one were 'suicided'. No credible case could be brought against then in a court of law. The prosecutors would have to prove that 1) the conspirators got on the aircraft ( no evidence of boarding was ever produxed - no boarding passes, no CCTV) 2) they overpowered the military trained combat pilots none of whom could activate a hijacker alarm within a few seconds 3) they could fly planes at above design speed to hit the Towers slap in the middle and perform a 270 degree corkscrew turn descent fron 8000 feet and fly level for 1 km controlling downforce to strike the Pentagon( none of these feats capable of being perforned by highly qualified professional pilots and 4) that the act of striking the buildings caused them to collapse at near freefall speed, even though in the case of WTC 7, it wasn't hit by an aeroplane at all. Oh yes and there were almost zero aircraft USAF or USN interceptors around. Most of them were on exercises those couple of days and 2 sent to intercept the Pentagon plane went at least at the start in the wrong direction

    The 'Defence' doesnt have to prove anything other than the official story doesn't stand up. Which it doesn't.

    , @Sparkon
    @Frederick V. Reed


    It is very possible that I have missed something, but everything I have read on the matter has been vague, liberal-artsy, and devoid of the slightest familiarity with the use of explosives.
     
    Yes, you have missed something. Please read and comprehend all comments before making such unsubstantiated and inaccurate generalizations. Specifically, please see my comments above about thermite.

    If truthers want to be taken seriously outside their own ranks, they need to decide on one story...
     
    No we don't. Truthers are not any single, unified, monolithic group but rather diverse groups and individuals with varying ideas, opinions, and conjectures about what happened, and who did it.

    Most of us would agree, however, that none of the 9/11 perpetrators has been brought to justice.

    Those criminals remain at large.
    , @ChuckOrloski
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Frederick V. Reed reflected & wrote: critique. As an old newsman, I can assure you that without a whole lot more substance and fewer contradictions the controlled-demolition theory would never get past a desk editor."
    Hey old newsman!
    ... Did you ever consider 9/11 crime scene investigators subjecting Larry Silverstein to questions as to how his "pull it" order on WTC 7 had worked so well?
    ... Thanks.

    , @Mike P
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You are right of course that e.g. the detection of nanothermite does not immediately reveal the whole story. The same goes for the airplanes - proving that the airplane crashes were just make-believe again does not give us the whole picture of what really happened.

    There also is the small difficulty of the missing crime scene - most of the debris was rapidly carted off and never properly examined, not even by the government agencies. Is it really sensible under such conditions to demand from members of the general public, who have no access to secret information, the whole story of the destruction of the towers, one that is iron-clad and has no loose ends?

    What the detection of nanothermite and other such findings do accomplish, however, is to clearly, unambiguously put the lie to the government-approved fairy tale, and thereby prove that the government is complicit in this conspiracy (I don't shun that word - Caesar in the end believed in conspiracies, too). That by itself is more important than an imaginary "complete illustrated guide to the demolition of the WTC, with step-by-step instructions for easy repetition.

    , @tac
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I've posted excellent videos on the subject matter on my comment #1 on this thread. Why don't you do some RESEARCH and then come back with questions instead of posting generalizations. Did you even take the time watch all of the videos I've posted? Of course not...!

    LOOK CLOSELY HERE FRED...:


    THE ANATOMY OF A GREAT DECEPTION – How 9-11 Woke Me Up – David Hooper
    https://vimeo.com/106233510

    WTC7...see light flashes of explosions and hear them from @48:38-48:57

    WTC7...notice the vertical support collapses (windows blow out and building starts to cave at vertical columns) @18:20-22:25
    Now.. pause @20:34 (notice the squibs shooting out from vertical columns between @20:34-20:36

    WTC1...notice the WHITE SMOKE coming from the BOTTOM OF WTC1 @47:25-48:30


     

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    , @Rurik
    @Frederick V. Reed


    As an old newsman, I can assure you that without a whole lot more substance and fewer contradictions the controlled-demolition theory would never get past a desk editor.
     
    What about the attack on the USS Liberty?

    Would a report of that event have gotten past your editor's desk, eh Fredo?

    Or would it have first been necessary to figure out what exact consistency of napalm they were dropping on the deck or the exact angle that the torpedo was launched at the ship, before any kind of significant reporting could be done?

    Wasn't it enough to know that Israel attacked our sailors in a cowardly and treacherous act of war, intending to murder every soul aboard, in order to blame someone else, and then get the US to fight ((their)) wars for them? How oddly characteristic of them!

    And when you consider that our entire fecal government at the highest levels, including our controlled media, were all complicit in the cover up of that singularly unspeakable act of mass-murder and betrayal, some might consider that a story that a real (as opposed to a deepstate whore) journalist might want to cover, no?

    How many stories have you written about that atrocity, eh Fredo?

    You were a war correspondent around that time, no?

    Perhaps it just wasn't a significant enough of an event to write about, huh?

    So the president and Commander in Chief, betrayed the lives of his (our) sailors to the enemy, and then lied about it.

    Nothing worth writing about there! Just like 9/11!

    So what if Israeli agents were filming the attack, and celebrating as our citizens were horrifically slaughtered in balls of fire.

    So what if these Israelis get billions of dollars from our citizens each year in tribute.

    Anyone who complains when they repay us by murdering our citizens, corrupting our government and getting us to spend our blood and treasure fighting endless wars on their behalf, is just an anti-Semite who's jealous of Jewish money making skills, huh?


    This, not complicity, is why the press ignores conspiracy theories.
     
    Guess what Fredo, no matter how you cook at it, even the official narrative of 9/11 is a 'conspiracy theory', even far less plausible than what the truthers now know.

    No Fredo, in order to write the truth about 9/11, (or the USS Liberty, or MH17, or Assad's "chemical attacks", or Israel's iron grip on our fecal government and media and institutions, etc...), all you have to have is the nads to tell the truth. You don't need any specialized scientific expertize in nano-whateverthefuck. No. All that's required are integrity and balls.

    Two things woefully lacking in the professional whournalism we suffer these days.

  • Robin Hanson once wrote a blog post about how reasonably intelligent people (for instance, the sort of people who read his blog) tend to overestimate how smart everyone else is. For instance, about half of Americans are unable to correctly read a table and do a simple addition/subtraction calculation: Such is the banal reality of...
  • Prosperity is a function of intelligence and other things. If you look at raw intellectual capacity, various Asians are HUGELY superior to all others. The disproportion between small Asian populations and their overwhelming dominance at high-end universities and elite high schools, on tests like National Merit, are boggling. If memory serves, the 2016—I’m not going to check—Math Olympiad championship team of the US was all Asian. Is this success explainable by their IQ advantage? It would seem to indicate that they will shortly dwarf a cognitively comparatively dim European world. They are said to be genetically unable to innovate. True? They can sure engineer, as the Kirin 980 and Q-bit work suggests.

    • Replies: @Daniel Chieh
    @Frederick V. Reed

    That's a self-selecting minority, though. IIRC Igbo immigrants also do very well. Actual question of national significance will rely upon the ability of the larger population to coordinate in a healthy way. China still has a lot of problems, much which can't be solved by money.

    , @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred, just want to say you are my favorite writer here at Unz. You write with intelligence and wit.

    Please comment more on your own and other peoples articles.

    , @marpa
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Some recent genetic studies discovered that the alleles associated with IQ and cognitive ability are different from the alleles associated with creativity and artistic expression. It may be that Asians have superior alleles in the first category, but not so in the second.

  • The murder of Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa is an unusually comprehensive story, in that it puts on display a remarkably large number of the components of our immigration-policy lunacy. Ms Tibbetts, just to remind you, was a 20-year-old white girl, a sophomore at the University of Iowa, majoring in psychology. She went jogging on July...
  • Derbyshire seems at times to rely on the innumeracy of jis readers, whom he presumably knows well. Breitbart News wrote that “over 800,000” Dreamers have committed 2,139 crimes running from alien smuggling (probably their parents) and DUI to serious offenses. These criminals equal .267% of 800,000 or about a quarter of one percent of “more than 800,000” claimed by Breitbart. That is, one crime per about four hundred Dreamers. This is a crime wave?

    So far as I know, and I will apologize if wrong, neither Derbyshire nor others at the topof the Alt-Right
    have ever said what policy they want toward the forty or fifty million legal and heavily citizen Latins in the country. I presume this is becuse having a policy would be to admit that we now have a large Latin population and that would break ranks with the infuriated who seem to make upmost of the Alt-Right. This appeals to the low-IQ elements but does not help the country.

    Personally I suspect that his Chinese wife is both decent and intelligent as that is what decent and intelligent men marry. This very likely applies to his children. But if I shared the attitude of his fellows in arms, or had the attitude toward hs wife that he has toward my Mexican wife, which I do not, I would note that he is polluting our precious bodily fluids with half-breeds. Eeeeeeek!

    • Replies: @KenH
    @Frederick V. Reed


    These criminals equal .267% of 800,000 or about a quarter of one percent of “more than 800,000” claimed by Breitbart.
     
    According to DHS statistics 59,786 DACA recipients, or nearly 8% of the 800,000 "Dreamers" have prior arrest records:
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/18/thousands-daca-recipients-with-arrest-records-including-10-accused-murderers-allowed-to-stay-in-us.html

    Would May-hee-co tolerate an arrest rate of 60,000 for illegal whites (if they let them in)? Would they call poor white trash streaming across their border to consume government services "Dreamers"? Would you?

    And you're not paying close attention to white nationalists/alt-right. We've called for white ethnostates over the rotting carcass of multiracial America. We can't recapture the government and it's only a matter of time before it collapses as the current status quo is not sustainable in the long term.

    Whatever you might think tensions do exist between whites and Latinos even though in most cases it's not as toxic as those between whites and blacks. The vast majority of Latino politicians at the state and federal level harbor varying degrees of hostility towards whites and our racial interests and nearly 70% vote anti-white Democrat, so your wet dream of widespread miscegenation between the two groups is unlikely to come to fruition.
    , @Truth
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Hey Dawg, you guys are about the same age, maybe just some 8 ounce gloves and a couple of mouthpeices in the parking lot, next Amren Conference. What do you have to lose? I say do it Old White Man (tm) John Wayne style.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @The Anti-Gnostic
    @Frederick V. Reed

    So far as I know, and I will apologize if wrong, neither Derbyshire nor others at the top of the Alt-Right have ever said what policy they want toward the forty or fifty million legal and heavily citizen Latins in the country. I presume this is becuse having a policy would be to admit that we now have a large Latin population and that would break ranks with the infuriated who seem to make upmost of the Alt-Right. This appeals to the low-IQ elements but does not help the country.

    That would be pertinent critique if Derb had written an essay addressing the solution rather than this essay laying out the problem in typically eloquent form. But since you've excreted it here, it has been addressed, repeatedly: when you're in a hole, stop digging. I don't see you around when Sailer talks about it so it looks like your snit with Derb is personal. Maybe you should work on that. It's unseemly in old men.

    Why don't you acknowledge your adopted country's interest in this arrangement? This obsolete Indio farm equipment was here because Mexico's Iberian elite have no use for him and his cohort there, so they encourage them to go north and be somebody else's problem.

    , @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred Reed has become the standard bearer of John McCain's legacy.

    , @War for Blair Mountain
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred

    You are ok with he Hispanics being on WORKING CLASS NATIVE BORN WHITE AMERICAN LIVING AND BREEDING SPACE....voting Whitey into a White racial foriegner and White minority within the borders of post-white toilet “America”.

    The option would be mass expulsion of LA RAZA....whose side you gonna be on?

    Press E for expulsion......FUCK YOU FRED AND YOUR MEXICAN SQUAW......

    Replies: @War for Blair Mountain, @Truth

    , @J1234
    @Frederick V. Reed

    There are countless remarks and slogans about the shortcomings of statistics, but they all seem to arrive at the same basic destination: Statistics are something less than "facts". I tend to agree with this idea, yet most stats are presented with the same certainty of meaning as the sun rising in the east. Stats are usually just specific numbers and correlations pulled out a larger tangle of complexity, then (often) presented more as an argument than as proof, often being viewed through a lense of precept based causality.

    It shouldn't be a surprise, however, that not all statistics - or the contexts they are presented in - are created equal. I personally think black crime statistics, generally speaking, relate a reality much deeper than those in positions of power and influence in our pander-to-the-public society are willing to acknowledge. There's something wrong with black cultures or populations, and it's a problem that seems more or less unique to black cultures and populations. Black circumstances - and failings - are so consistent throughout the world. And a non-black person's lifetime of anecdotal experiences with black people stop being anecdotes at some point - when enough experiences are accumulated to become part of a larger tendency.

    I honestly don't know what to make of Hispanic crime statistics, however. Part of the problem is that "Hispanic" covers a broader cultural context. I don't really care about dreamer crime rates, per se. I care more about immigrant crime rates and illegal immigrant crime rates. There are many anecdotal experiences I have that seem to fit part of the leftist narrative: a significant number of Hispanics actually are humble, agreeable and family oriented people. I suspect that I'm one of the few people of my political perspective who actually cringed when Trump tried to characterize illegals as murderers and rapists early in his campaign.

    OTOH, a white acquaintance of mine was murdered (randomly) by a member of a Hispanic gang, and a white woman was murdered (again, randomly) by a Hispanic while out walking in the broad daylight a half a block from our house. This in a state that is less than 10% Hispanic. Or state is also 82% non-Hispanic white, but I've never known anyone murdered by a member of this demographic, though it certainly happens. And murder rates in some parts of central America are the highest in the world. When all is said and done, despite ambiguities that stats bring to the argument, political leaders have a moral obligation to protect citizens from foreign powers and populations, especially within that country's borders. Rolling the cultural dice and letting Hispanics become a rapidly expanding part of the US through policy and non-enforcement is a social experiment that's immoral. But it's US politicians that are the bad guys far more than Hispanic immigrants.





    Mollie Tibbetts, who so far as I can ascertain was entirely white,

    , @Eric Novak
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Those seeking permission to live in the United States legally are required to have zero felonies in order to qualify for permanent residency status. The Breitbart readers you disparaged are perfectly numerate. The problem is your lack of knowledge about immigration. Check your facts next time you fly in from your website on wings of righteousness.

    , @International Jew
    @Frederick V. Reed


    These criminals equal .267% of 800,000 or about a quarter of one percent of “more than 800,000” claimed by Breitbart. That is, one crime per about four hundred Dreamers.

     

    Not quite, cowboy. What you read is that 2139 crimes were known to be committed by aliens who have actually applied for DREAMER status. That's not at all the same as everyone who's eligible to apply for that status, which is far more than 800,000 (it's likely in the high-single-digit millions, if we take reasonable estimates of the illegal population and its age profile). The ones with criminal records will tend not to apply, knowing their records will at best get their applications rejected, and at worst attract unwanted attention from the authorities. So those 2139 crimes were committed by the cleanest of the clean.

    2139 is, moreover, surely an undercount. It's, first, the number of crimes detected and, second, crimes associated with the name used on the guy's DACA application.

    For everyone else's benefit: the Breitbart article Frederick V. Reed is referring to is
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/05/2139-daca-recipients-convicted-or-accused-of-crimes-against-americans/
  • It’s a sure sign that a piece of “controversial science” is actually empirically accurate when our Cultural Marxist elite desperately tries to come up with some kind of environmental explanation for it, no matter how implausible. This means that the evidence is so overwhelming that it can’t be denied any longer. So it must, in...
  • If intelligence were environmental or cultural, all the children in Isaac Newton’s neighvorhood would be towering mathematical geniuses. Were they?

  • Since the beginning of the “Me, too!” movement, “patriarchy”—and the very idea that females prefer to be feminine—is under attack as never before. The Swedish capital Stockholm has banned ads that portray female stereotypes [Stockholm bans “sexist” and “degrading” adverts from public spaces, By Sara Malm, Daily Mail, 13 June 2018]. An Austrian museum about...
  • The notion that “pretty” equals “genetically superior” is crucial to evolutionary psychology but holds little if any water. In practice a small–i.e., weak–delicately built girl with a cute face and coquettish manner will leave the bar with the alpha guy while the strong, slightly chunky girl with the big nose and close-set eyes will stay behind. Health and fertility play no part. Unless you can show that hourglass-shaped women are more fertile than boxier ones, or that plain features correlate with lower resistance to disease or less endurance or lower intelligence or some such, the evolutionary just-so story fails. The assertion that not-so-attractive women have high levels of testosterone and so have spontaneous abortions is embarassing desperation.

    • Replies: @James Forrestal
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Unless you can show that hourglass-shaped women are more fertile than boxier ones
     
    1. Take your pick -- it's hardly a secret:

    https://duckduckgo.com/?t=disconnect&x=%2Fhtml&q=fertility+waist+to+hip+ratio&ia=web

    Peak fertility correlates with W-H ratio of right around 0.7. For example:

    "Women with high WHR (0.80 or higher) have significantly lower pregnancy rates than
    women with lower WHRs (0.70–0.79), independent of their BMIs"

    http://faculty.bennington.edu/~sherman/sex/whr-singh2002.pdf

    or that plain features correlate with lower resistance to disease or less endurance or lower intelligence or some such
     
    2. One of the most important (and universal) requirements for beauty is symmetry -- and asymmetry correlates with both higher genetic load and lower intelligence.

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/10/beauty-is-objective-subjective/#.W29tQrjLdrU

    https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/health/if-intelligence-is-the-norm-stupidity-gets-more-interesting.html

    Nor is it clear why you feel that physical strength "should" be selected for in females to the exclusion of other traits.
    , @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed


    The notion that “pretty” equals “genetically superior” is crucial to evolutionary psychology but holds little if any water. In practice a small–i.e., weak–delicately built girl with a cute face and coquettish manner will leave the bar with the alpha guy
     
    You sure can't beat latinas, africans and orientals for demonstrated fecundity.

    For that matter, celtic women, or those of Angle, Jute, Scots and Pict ancestry sure as hell ain't known for beauty. You need to inject European blood to get a few purty ones.
    , @Kyfho Myoba
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Frederick V Reed:
    > Unless you can show that hourglass-shaped women are more fertile than boxier ones, or that plain features correlate with lower resistance to disease or less endurance or lower intelligence or some such, the evolutionary just-so story fails.

    All of which have been shown in several studies.

    Read an evo-psych textbook. Female preference for male symmetry (indicative of high T) has been shown numerous times. Not only that, but her preference changes across the ovulatory cycle, in that her desire for a high T face is highest during ovulation. Also, during ovulation, her scent preference for males with differing major histocompatability complexes [MHC] (males with genes further differing from her own, i.e., less related) increases. The MHC is a primary part of the immune system. Facial symmetry is known to be correlated with a healthy immune system.

    Every measure of attractiveness, male or female, has been shown to confer a reproductive advantage.

    In short, I'm busy, you're wrong.

  • In the past few days, the Internet has been flooded with a frankly silly rumor about the US soliciting Australia's assistance in preparing an attack on Iran. Needless to say, that report does not explain what capabilities Australia would possess which the US would lack, but never-mind that. Still, the report was picked up in...
  • There is an awful lot of wishful thinking in this. Trump’s tactic is chutzpah, doing anything he wants and saying screw you if you can’t take a joke. Europe is so weak it can barely force through a gas pipeline against Washington’s displeasure. Neither China nor Russia is likeliy to go to war for Iran, and who else is there? If Iran did manage to block the Straits for more than a short time, do we think the Judaeo-Trumpians would say sorry and back off? Even if Trump used nukes, what could the world do? Be outraged, and learn not to cross the Empire. And diesel electrics have to surface.

    • LOL: FB
    • Replies: @Andrei Martyanov
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Neither China nor Russia is likeliy to go to war for Iran, and who else is there?
     
    There is a larger structure called Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Xi since 2016 was calling on accepting Iran into it, with Iran having currently an Observer status. For Russia it will be enough (which was done before already) to place some of its VKS units on Iranian airfields, especially under auspices of SCO military practices and even bombing will become a huge issue. Russia is not going to allow any hostile power to have direct access to Caspian Sea. Again, WHAT war? Combined Arms invasion--that will be the end of the US as we know it. Bombing? Let's wait an see. In fact, it is not up to Russia, it is up to Iran do decide how to proceed--Iran has options. Will she exercise them?

    Even if Trump used nukes, what could the world do? Be outraged, and learn not to cross the Empire. And diesel electrics have to surface.
     
    Ahh, what? Is the world "crossing" the Empire now? Russia is, but then again she can erase the Empire from the map. This mental construct is so "out there" that it is even difficult to respond properly to it. I omit here, of course, a gigantic political fallout for US which will make it a de facto a pariah in case it decides to use nukes. In fact, I can predict with a good degree of probability what is going to happen. For starters--dedollarization will go into overdrive.

    If Iran did manage to block the Straits for more than a short time, do we think the Judaeo-Trumpians would say sorry and back off
     
    The only thing with which I may agree here. In fact, if one of the US Navy carriers (God forbids), somehow gets damaged, let alone sunk, one may expect an escalation to a nuclear threshold since US is inherently nuclear weapons-biased since can not take any serious conventional losses, especially in terms of a naval assets. But I agree, that with about 2-3 air-wings in a vicinity of Hormuz Strait, plus the wing of ASW aviation on call--neither Iranian submarine forces, nor, especially those proverbial "speed boats" will be much of a strategic challenge.

    Replies: @FB, @Tim too

    , @Low Voltage
    @Frederick V. Reed

    So what are they waiting for?

    , @CalDre
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Neither China nor Russia is likeliy to go to war for Iran, and who else is there?
     
    I wouldn't bet on that. I'm not as sure about China but even in the late 90s, when Russia was at an abyss, it occupied the Pristina airport and has also taken large positions in Syria, with the express threat to retaliate for any attacks on its troops.

    I could definitely see Russia playing this game. And using its hypersonic missiles to take out any US ships/bases attacking any Russian forces.

    China for its part is more likely to take an economic approach - continuing to purchase Iranian oil and fund the Iranian government, and not accepting any US "embargo". If the US were to forcibly intercept Chinese merchant vessels or oil tankers, I could see a trade war with the US erupting immediately and China blocking US ships in the South China Sea. Taiwan also opens up as a possible target.

    Iranian missiles can bring not only ship traffic to a halt, but destroy LNG terminals and other oil facilities. The huge jump in energy prices would cause a global depression.

    Meanwhile the entire planet will be furious with the US. Collapse of the Dollar Hegemony would be very likely, leading to a collapse of the US economy. Of course the MSM will support the war - one of the few things Trump can count on for "Liberals" to support, nay, laud and cheer, is the unprovoked destruction of an Islamic country.

    End of the day, a war with Iran would likely lead to WW III. Whether that war becomes nuclear cannot be ruled out. Hence the only ones crazy enough to risk it are the neo-cons, who want to exterminate most of the world population anyway, to then be ruled over by them.

    In fact that may be the entire plan. This will be the true "war to end all wars", as the Illuminati have finally achieved the technological edge to assure world dominion. But of course they are actually NOT all-knowing, and their predictions could be (likely are) utterly wrong.

  • Edinburgh was rightly chosen for the ISIR conference this year, since it must now rank as the world leader in intelligence research. 120 delegates gathered in the grand surroundings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, bathed in the almost perpetual Northern sunlight of this noble city, to start at the beginning, which was 530 million...
  • “a synapse complexity expansion, which itself was followed by a genome duplication event 30 million years later. It was the mutation of all mutations, since the duplication then duplicated again, and it is from that freak 4 duplicated genomes that all vertebrate life descends.”

    This is Just-So-Storyism of a high order.From the confident tone you would think the author was there.

    “A” mutation? A synapse requires a stable gap, the production of a neurotransmitter, a storage mechanism, a mechanism to release it into the gap on arrival of a signal from upstream, receptors on the other side, and a mechanism by which the binding of the transmitter causes initiation of a downstream signal, sodium in, potassium out. I suppose acetylcholinesterase or some such might miraculously been added later to clean up. None of this would work without the rest being already in place. Many complex simultaneous mutations. Butin fairness I suppose the author has examined many fossilized synapses.

    • Replies: @res
    @Frederick V. Reed

    That sound bite does seem overly glibly certain, but such is the nature of popular communication.

    Here is some of the substance behind that claim. Also from Seth Grant. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284546510_The_molecular_evolution_of_the_vertebrate_behavioural_repertoire

  • The brain being an electrochemical–that is, physica–mechanism, and every state of a physical mechanism being determined by the previous state, our thughts would seem to be determined and therefore not precisely thoughts. If this is not true, tell me why it is not.A neurotransmitter cannnot decide whether to diffuse across a gap any more than a bowling ball can decide to fall sideways, no? Therefore we cannnot think, QED. This tracks well with most of political commentary.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred,
    Uhm... quantum mechanics? Just kidding, I'm more and more of the Bohmian persuasion which claims that QM is actually deterministic if you posit the existence of a pilot wave.

    , @Wizard of Oz
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Try reading The Mind Matters by David Hodgson who sadly died at 72 only months after retiring from the New South Wales Court of Appeal. He had topped NSW in mathematics at the Matriculation/Higher School Certificate level about 1957 and later became a Rhodes Scholar noted as his best ever student by one Oxford philosophy prof. While on the bench he taught himself Quantum Mechanics and incorporated what he got from that into his "The Mind Matters". Frequent commenter CanSpeccy has I think read more of it than I and I don't think bought it all. However, it could only be good for the brain to have a go at it.

    , @utu
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Therefore we cannnot think
     
    What is "we" that "can" or "cannot" in this sentence? The issue of free will is intractable. Either we have it or we do not. In materialistic world to which you and Dr. Thompson most likely subscribe there is no free will. Consciousness is just an epiphenomenon w/o any practical consequences. We are just philosophizing zombies whose philosophizing is inconsequential. Bertrand Russel rejected the no free will posture on practical grounds: life with a belief in no free will would be impossible. But where form can we get free will? Only from God. It must be postulated and the materialistic framework must be abandoned. You have to postulate the free will and step outside the materialist framework. God gave you free will. Take it or leave it. And obviouly you can leave it as a philosophizing zombie whose philosophizing even if full of antinomies and contradictions have no consequences. "You" "can" say and think whatever you "want" because it is not in your control anyway and your belief in free will is just a pretense if you subscribe to materialism.

    Somebody already brought up quantum physics that it could save free will in deterministic world:

    http://www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/history/
    In his Gifford Lectures of 1927, Arthur Stanley Eddington had described himself as unable "to form a satisfactory conception of any kind of law or causal sequence which shall be other than deterministic." Eddington had already established himself as the leading interpreter of the new relativity and quantum physics. His astronomical measurements of light bending as it passes the sun had confirmed Einstein's general relativity theory.

    A year later, in response to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Eddington revised his lectures for publication as The Nature of the Physical World. There he announced "It is a consequence of the advent of the quantum theory that physics is no longer pledged to a scheme of deterministic law," and enthusiastically identified indeterminism with freedom of the will.

    But Eddington left himself open to the charge since Epicurus' time, that chance could not be identified with freedom. He was apparently unaware of the work of William James or Henri Poincaré to make deliberation a two-stage process - first random possibilities, then a choice. A decade later, in his 1939 book The Philosophy of Physical Science, just a few years before his death, he reluctantly concluded there is no "halfway house" between randomness and determinism - an echo of Hume's "no medium betwixt chance and an absolute necessity."
     
    , @Rurik
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Hey Fred, it's your ol' pal Rurik,


    The brain being an electrochemical–that is, physica–mechanism, and every state of a physical mechanism being determined by the previous state, our thughts would seem to be determined and therefore not precisely thoughts. If this is not true, tell me why it is not.A neurotransmitter cannnot decide whether to diffuse across a gap any more than a bowling ball can decide to fall sideways, no? Therefore we cannnot think, QED.
     
    Why, if our thoughts are determined, (as they indeed are) do they stop being thoughts?

    I'm thinking right now that I'm going to write this next word; lomatricine.

    I thought up that 'word', and in doing so, brought to bear all of my respective nature and nurture, all of which are a consequence of what transpired previously. There is no way I could have thought of that word, were it not for what I was born as, and the life and experiences I've lived subsequently.

    If there were such a thing as free will, then you'd be able to think in anyway possible. You'd be literally free to think as a Somali teenage girl, or have a thought that your typical Oprah fan would have on any given day. But you can't do that, because you're limited by being Fred, and having been born with your particular gifts and proclivities and penchants, some of which are a consequence of your 'nurture', which to say is the experiences you've had over your years.

    If our will were free, we could think in anyway and everyway we liked, and be free to have thoughts that would transcend Aristotle. But we can't, because our will, and our minds are limited in exactly the way you point out, being as our brains are organic, and subject to those limitations.

    So the act of thinking, is not any less so because of those limitations. We do indeed think, but it's like a dog thinks, (I want food, I want pussy, that other dog better watch out or I'm gonna whup some arse). What it isn't like is how a God would think, iow unlimited by mortal flesh.

    We are mortal, and limited. But that doesn't stop us from thinking of words like lomatricine. if it suits our whim.

  • The inspiration for this article is a piece on the politico.eu website, which I assume is the European version of our own center-left Politico.com: The subhead to the article is: "Fortress Europe hardens its heart." The body of the article is a breathless argument from the bleeding-heart Left that Europe's leaders are abandoning their Open-Borders...
  • Mr. Derbyshire is dreaming. The East Asians are smarter than whites, and know it, as well as very racially conscios and nationalisitc. Look at their academic performance in the US. Why would they want an alliance with an inferior race?

    • Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Regardless of the intellectual merits of whites, why would anyone want to ally with a group that doesn't much seem to like itself?

    Regarding NE Asian and European IQ, the mystery has always been why have NE Asian scientific discoveries been so low relative to whites? Perhaps it was fluke of history, i.e. whites got lucky with the industrial revolution and were able to grab a lot of low hanging fruit. I don't know, but it does seem odd.

    I know that Asia is spitting out patents at a remarkable rate, but not sure if that is quantity or quality. Maybe both.

    Either way, Asia is rapidly reaching the point where the West could fall into disarray, and the Asian nations would be just fine. They'd trade amongst themselves, economies would grow and their lives would be quite nice. It does feel as though the baton is being passed from European peoples to East Asian peoples.

    Maybe it's 455 again, with the West being overrun while the East continues to flourish for a thousand years.

    Replies: @anon, @Jim Delano, @AnotherDad, @AnotherDad

    , @RadicalCenter
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Because your amigos will dominate or drive the Asians out if Asians and whites don’t band together?

    , @Truth
    @Frederick V. Reed

    LMAO

    Alfredo has lost his cotton-pickin' mind!

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Why would they want an alliance with an inferior race?
     
    Yeah, and why even move here and try to live in all the cities with all those white people? It's not like they don't have a few dozen cities as big as NYC of their own, full of Chinese people.
    , @dfordoom
    @Frederick V. Reed


    The East Asians are smarter than whites, and know it, as well as very racially conscios and nationalisitc. Look at their academic performance in the US. Why would they want an alliance with an inferior race?
     
    I don't think whites are inferior to East Asians intellectually but the history of the West in the past century does suggest that we're culturally inferior. Our culture seems to have a built-in self-destruct device and so far we haven't found any way to de-activate it.

    Unfortunately we're spreading our diseased culture to every corner of the globe. The East Asians need to act quickly to erect cultural barriers against us to protect themselves.

    Replies: @Bill Jones

  • The late Charles Krauthammer was right about the rules of good writing. The use of the first-person pronoun in opinion writing is a cardinal sin. To get a sense of how bad someone's writing is count the number of times he or she deploys the Imperial "I" on the page. Krauthammer considered a single "I"...
  • Since a writer of opinion is expressing his opinion, pretending otherwise is silly. The thuddingly awkward “this reporter” or the unbearably cute “your scribe” or gummily evasive passive voice make for disagreeable prose. The AP Style Book is perhaps desirable for enforcing homgeneity on news copy but make for drab English.

    It is thought by this writer that that the border people should be strangled. So should most of the government. German backpackers get the same treatment. Or ask people from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, or Cuba.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed

    You want to strangle all the people at the border? That's a bit harsh, Mr. Reed. Your scribe here says just give them a few hundred Pesos and send them back. Or whatever, they don't have to go home... but they can't stay here.

    As for strangling the governments, this commenter says that all governments become worth of strangulation, but some sooner than others, Venezuala, for instance. Our founders did their very best, and it was a good show for almost 200 years. That beat hell out of about any government ever seen on Earth.

    The dog ate my AP Style book, and you shouldn't have too much tequila during Siesta. That's just the opinion of this replier.

    , @Bragadocious
    @Frederick V. Reed

    It is thought by this writer that that the border people should be strangled

    Even those poor screaming children separated from their parents? That seems harsh, even for me.

  • The Economist magazine just held a debate across the week June 18th to 25th. Topic: Should people be free to choose the country in which they live? It's a straightforward question, using plain English words in proper grammatical order. But then, you could say the same of: Should New York City abolish all restrictions on...
  • Political innumeracy is not unique to the Alt-Right (“Let’s deport twelve million illegals.”). At least 800,000,000 Indians, at least eighty percent of black Africa, most of Pakistan, several hunred million Latin American, and all of Haiti would come to the US under genuine open borders. Ideologues seem to have a glandular, or low-inteligence, mode that they use when trying to think about politics. They proabably have buttons on the backs of their heads to switch between modes.

    • Replies: @Ron Unz
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Actually, I was invited to participate in a televised Intelligence Squared debate in NYC a few years ago on this same exact "Open Borders" proposal. Although the audience initially was overwhelmingly in favor, once I pointed out a few of the problematical aspects, they turned against it, and here's a column I wrote on the event at the time:

    https://www.unz.com/runz/open-borders-american-elites-and-the-minimum-wage/

    Perhaps The Economist people should take a look at the video of the debate...

    Replies: @Zumbuddi, @renfro

    , @Thomm
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Political innumeracy is not unique to the Alt-Right (“Let’s deport twelve million illegals.”).
     
    That is correct, but remember that the 'Alt-Right' are really just another form of leftist, since their economic views are left-wing. Nazi Germany was left-wing.

    Hence, it is more accurate to say that innumeracy is a hallmark of ALL leftists.

    The only ideology that is truly right-wing is small government/free markets/gender realist.
    , @Svigor
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred, you're old, senile, and treacherous, so you can't learn new facts, can't review your shopworn ideas, and can't be trusted to be intellectually honest.

    You've been told many times how self-deportation would be relatively easy to make happen. You're just too old to learn, too senile to remember, and too treacherous to admit it.

    Just STFU.

    Replies: @Truth

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Political innumeracy is not unique to the Alt-Right ...
     
    Too true ... too true ... and innumeracy does not stop South of the Border either, mi amigo. It's amazing that people that think of themselves as numerate can pull a number of 12,000,000 people (not 10 million, not 15 million) out of their asses when the number of "reported" illegal alien Hispanics was said to be 11,000,000 in 2001. By definition, even a +/- 25 % estimate cannot be guaranteed, as people with fake ID's and no ID's and similar foreign looks are hard to, like "IDentify". Yet, the difference in population in the 17 years has been noticeable by almost all Americans since then. Seriously numerate people, such as engineers, know HOW WELL THEY KNOW A NUMBER - it's called a tolerance.

    That aside, all the numeracy in the world can't make up for lack of common sense. It has been noted by most of us that the cop giving out 30 $250/4-point tickets each day on the interstate has slowed down many more than 30 cars. That makes us understand that deportation of even a small number, say 10 %, of the 25,000,000 illegal aliens (# pulled out of MY ass) done in a serious determined way could make the other 90% vamoose in a more relaxed manner. Lots of us can understand that such a process can run a few years, on an accelerating schedule due to something called the "learning curve".

    In the blogging world, putting out poorly thought-out comments and refusing to read the common-sense replies is not the way to stay on that "learning curve".

  • If you followed the recent hysteria about our cruelty to illegal alien children on non-Main Stream Media, you'll be familiar with the depth of nonsense and dishonesty behind it all. You'll know that the policy causing all the shrieking and fainting has been in place for years, long before Donald Trump showed up. You'll have...
  • “The logic is inescapable. An adult who crosses the border without authorization is liable to arrest and detention, quite rightly so. If there are children with him, those children need to be detained and cared for, too; though since it’s the adult who broke the law, not the child, this is a child-care issue, not a law-enforcement issue.”

    Mr. Derbyshire is speaking of the Dreamers, I assume.

  • I don’t believe I’m exaggerating when I say that Kevin MacDonald’s Culture of Critique is one of the most important books of our age. Despite this fact, it has garnered remarkably little attention in traditional spheres, particularly academic circles. Of course, the reasons for this are obvious — the book is critical of Jewish behavior,...
  • Dergyshire also seems to have a keen eye on where his bread is buttered with respect to the very large and non-deportable Hispanic population, refusing, so far as I know, to staue what policy he favors toward them. To concede their permanence, much less to favor assimilation, would get him blackballed by the Alt-Right, so, I suspect, he avoids the subject. I don’t blame him as I would probably do the same if my speaking invitations depended on following the party line. In my active journalistic day I, like all writers, knew what you couldn’t say, and who you couldn’t say it about.

    • Replies: @Wizard of Oz
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred, if you read what Bardon Kaldian has to say do you agree that it is pretty shrewd - and see my reply to him?

    BTW I have a young extended family member heading with a bit of luck into politics in a very interesting and mixed electorate. I am trying not to introduce all sorts of unsayables as I contribute to his basically no BS secular right of centre views.

    , @roo_ster
    @Frederick V. Reed

    There is no non-deportable population of _any_ sort in the USA, to include those with a direct descent from founding stock.

    Will and means. If they exist, it can be done. It _has_ been done in the past. And will be done to some groups by other groups in N America in the not too distant future.

    In the end, it is the old "Who? Whom?" question. It is better to be the "Who."

    As for the hispanic population in particular, they are no more permanent than the Rhodesians or the Dalmatians or the Carthaginians or any of a number of peoples who met their ends.

    ===============

    As for Derb's opinion on hispanic invaders/immigrants, I suspect he is pretty close to the VDare position.

    Replies: @attilathehen

  • I got a bit carried away with congressional maneuvering over immigration issues last week, leaving myself no time for other topics in the news. Here's one of those topics: the assault on meritocracy. Now, the whole issue of meritocracy is problematic. It needs some serious thought and public discussion, but isn't getting much of either....
  • The obvious genetic superiority of Asians to whites is so great that the Chinese objection to miscegenation with whites makes complete sense. It also makes very likely the dominance of the planet by these superior people unless Washing starts a serious war wuickly. Biology is destiny, it is said, and the biology is unmistakeable. But is not it better to have the superior race in charge, however Negro-like it may make many whites feel??

    • LOL: Truth
    • Replies: @Thomm
    @Frederick V. Reed

    LOL! Fred Reed is the shock troop specifically tasked with generating confusion so that White Nationalists implode. He is also essential in Ron Unz's goal to normalize Hispanics and elevate them above White Trashionalists (the bottom 20% of whites).

    It is part of Ron Unz's master plan. He is a sophisticated Confuse and Conquer Jew, and it is a privilege to see him execute this plan. I am strongly in support.

    , @KenH
    @Frederick V. Reed


    The obvious genetic superiority of Asians to whites is so great that the Chinese...
     
    Yes Fredrico, the superiority of East Asians is so great that China has to steal all of our advanced technology developed by the inferior white males via industrial espionage, one sided offset contracts, and blackmail. One area where they are superior to whites, far superior, is in their racial pride and refusal to allow immigrants unlike themselves, especially Latin Americans, into China.

    If whites dare to have a racial conscience and notice that Mestizos are not only different, but inferior to whites then you explode like a pinata and start squealing about white nationalism. But you're down with brown racial nationalism both in Mexico and the U.S.

    Replies: @Alden

    , @MikeatMikedotMike
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Kiko Reed:

    "Wooooooorld staaaaaaaar!!!!!!"

  • The congressional GOP leas by House Speaker Paul Ryan has been meeting this week to try to get Republican immigration legislation through the House. There is a deadline looming: next Tuesday, June 12th. Twenty-three of the most RINO-ish Republican representatives have been pushing for a discharge petition. [House Republican factions hunt for immigration deal, By...
  • What kind of wall, specifically, does Mr. Derbyshire want, and what do CIVIL ENGINEERS , as distinct from professional talking heads, say about its cost and the time needed to build it?

    What specifically, practically, concretely, does Mr. Derbyshire propose , after defeating amnesty, to do about Breitbart’s eight hundred thousand, or Vdares two million, DACA people? A clear, programmatic, explicit answer would help. Deport them? For twelve million illegals, that’s 125,000 a month for eight years, for two million, 20,800 a month, and for 800,000, about 8,300. How, specifivally, does Mr. Derbyshire, plan to bring this about? If he does not want to deport the, what, specifically, does he propose jto do about them?

    • Replies: @EliteCommInc.
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Ohh do stop . . . .


    planes, trains and automobiles and apparently for many walking seems to work ---- boats, canoes, etc.

    They found a where here, they are adults now, they can certainly find their way "home".

    , @MikeatMikedotMike
    @Frederick V. Reed

    "What specifically, practically, concretely, does Mr. Derbyshire propose , after defeating amnesty, to do about Breitbart’s eight hundred thousand, or Vdares two million, DACA people? A clear, programmatic, explicit answer would help. "

    They're going to move in with you Fred, and take turns changing your diaper.

    , @Them Guys
    @Frederick V. Reed

    How about a repeat of the, 1952 actions done by then us prez Eisenhower eh? Recall it? He called it.

    "Operation WETBACK".....and once as us prez he went live in msm papers and tv news to tell folks of the plan to mass deport, what was then thought to be 1.5 million Mexican illegals, but ended up being closer to, if I recall right, closer to 4 million Mexicans!


    And best part was, once he spoke out and gave a deadline to deport, 2/3rd Self deported within less than 90 days! The rest ended up being hunted down, rounded up and booted or taken out via busses etc. Done if I recall right by various combos of cops-sheriffs-Nat Guard-and fed border guys.

    Overall a massive huge success and fixed the main problem then of job losses to real usa citizens.

    These type arguments made of "Gee we cannot ever deport so many" etc etc are simply lame excuses period. Compared to other issues usa citizens and fed govnt were capable of doing, such as geared up mass factory productions to supply usa+brits+russians+france et al for WWII efforts.

    Compared to that and other "We cant do" things.....Oh yes we can do so. And I'd bet that if needed, Trump or anybody else could simply put out a sincere request for a few million white citizens for assistance in doing a mass deportation effort and even More folks would apply and work free or for limited gas and lunch expenses.

    All He'd need tell American whiteys is something akin to "Okay white folk, unless You assist us in mass deportations asap Now...YOUR Grand kids are going to be a minority treated worse than any other in all recorded history....A New and actual Real Holocaust on Your grand kiddies folks, with black & brown violence and ruinations and mass culling deaths of those whitey grand kiddies like You never dreamed possible".....then finish off by saying "And it Will All be Your faults which history shall never forget of!"


    Never mind if all that's true or not, most whites will believe it and if that type wake up call wont work, nothing at all ever shall.

    Replies: @Them Guys

    , @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred, you're punching below your weight, as usual when the subject is your beloved Mexicans. Common sense should tell you that when we stop rewarding border jumpers with welfare freebies, crack down on employers who use illegals to reduce labor costs, tax remittances to their countries of origin, and otherwise stop tolerating subliterate migrants ... they will deport themselves at their own expense.

    I admire your writing style but not your Mexico-centric values. You should be, but obviously aren't, embarrassed for joining the chorus of "They're already here, you can't do anything about it, nyah nyah nyah."

    Replies: @Svigor

  • The argument from authority is of questionable merit. Yes, some people know far more than others, but how does one establish that? Happily, there are publication and citation metrics available to help us, and a reasonable case can be made that experts exist. That does not preclude the possibility that they are all wrong. One...
  • Can anyone imagine chemists arguing over whether Planck’s constant was 6.67 x 10 to the -27 erg-sec or, instead, 6.023 times ten to the 23, with sixty-four percent of Democrats favoring the first and eighty-six percent of Republicans the latter? Psychology appears not to be a science but a mixture of Ouija board, political ideology, and shaky statistics.

    • Replies: @manorchurch
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Can anyone imagine chemists arguing over whether Planck’s constant was 6.67 x 10 to the -27 erg-sec or, instead, 6.023 times ten to the 23, with sixty-four percent of Democrats favoring the first and eighty-six percent of Republicans the latter?
     
    Oh, Fred, geeze! You must be feeling better, having resumed your lifelong hobby of bomb-throwing.

    Remember when psychology was behaviorism, so much so that the field toyed with renaming itself "Behavioristics"? What sort of coinage do you think they will come up with in combinations of "IQ", genetics, environmental effect, nutritive effect, etc? How about "nugenenvintists"? "Nutgen psychology"?

    Naah...needs work, and to be split into more sub-genres so that sucker-money can be made.
    , @Steve
    @Frederick V. Reed

    are there not things that chemists and physicists argue over?

  • Just after midnight of June 6, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in a backroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He had just been celebrating his victory at the California primaries, which made him the most likely Democratic nominee for the presidential election. His popularity was so great that Richard Nixon, on the...
  • The author made the point to me that English is not his first language, though he certainly writes it well, and that his mention of serial numbers may have been misleading. It was, at least for me. In any event I retract my criticism.

  • “the bullet tested in laboratory to be compared to the the one extracted from Robert’s brain had not been shot by Sirhan’s revolver, but by another gun, with a different serial number; ”

    The author seems blankly ignorant of guns, apparently believing that a serial number can be determined from a bullet. He sounds as though he has some vague recollection that marking left by lands and grooves on bullets are unique to the gun firing them, and somehow confuses this with serial numbers. Amateurish research does not breed confidence in conclusions. Does he give a link to which labortory and its report?

    • Replies: @Laurent Guyénot
    @Frederick V. Reed

    No, I am not that ignorant. Either I expressed myself poorly (English being not my native language), or you misunderstood. The serial number of the gun from which the test bullet was shot (as indicated on official report) is different from the serial number of Sirhan's gun (as indicated on another official report.

    Replies: @gsjackson, @Biff

    , @Cold N. Holefield
    @Frederick V. Reed

    That's a good point but it still doesn't explain how Sirhan Squared fired the fateful shot from behind Kennedy when he was always in front of Kennedy.

    Fyi, I have always felt horrible for Sirhan Squared. So much so, I named my dog after him and it's a female dog. You should see the reaction when I take her to the vet and they ask her name and I say it's Sirhan Sirhan. The look is priceless. My next dog's name will be Jesus. I'm sure it will go over equally as well with the hoi polloi.

    Does anyone really believe that if a POTUS decided to eradicate Israel's nuclear weapons program and cut off all funding to Israel that said POTUS wouldn't be assassinated before he/she could make it happen? Trump has been egregiously disrespectful to the Intelligence Community and yet he's still alive, but what if Trump was egregiously disrespectful to Israel instead of kissing Israel's ass as the first Jewish POTUS that he is? What if Trump ended all American aid to Israel and went to the United Nations and put forth a resolution for Israel to eliminate its nukes because if Iran and North Korea and Ted Nugent can't have them, neither can Israel. If Trump got elected on such a platform, which he never would have by the way, he would have been assassinated before he or any POTUS could implement such a plan. Israel has made it clear many times over, it will do ANYTHING & EVERYTHING it has to do to protect itself existentially and I'm sure that includes assassinating the POTUS if need be and all else fails.

    Replies: @geokat62

  • “Affirmative action” means hiring people because they can’t do the job well. Near-synonyms are “diversity,” meaning groups that cannot do the job well, and “inclusiveness,” which means seeking people who you know cannot do the job well. These underpin American society, and have ruined education. For some time the sciences seemed less susceptible to the...
  • @Anatoly Karlin
    @Bragadocious

    It's not all that dissonant from the rest of his work.

    Reed - Hispanics create functional societies, most of Latin America is perfectly fine to live in, Hispanic crime in the US is not a major problem.

    - all correct

    Reed - The US needs to imports tens of millions more Hispanics [insert some boomer strawman argument about how stupid and uninformed Alt Righters are]

    - not correct, but not incorrect either; just an emotional, "truthy" argument that derives from Reed's specific brand of Mexican nationalism.
    It's a nationalism that I find very bizarre and frankly cargo cultish - why on Earth would any self-respecting Mexican want to center his nationalism around the United States and what those pendejos do and think? - but we all have our ideological eccentricities.

    Reed - "Blacks contribute nothing and Hispanics, to date anyway, very little"

    - also correct. Also, ultimately Reed is an IQ realist, and while say an 8 point IQ difference certainly doesn't preclude civilization, it does mean scientific innovation will be very low in these groups due to the Law of Smart Fractions.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Achmed E. Newman, @Bragadocious, @Frederick V. Reed

    Anatoly Karlin: “Reed – The US needs to imports tens of millions more Hispanics [insert some boomer strawman argument about how stupid and uninformed Alt Righters are]”

    Karlin appears to be a lock-step thinker who reads what he expects rather than what is written. I have said endlessly that mass immigration was a mistake, that America should close its border and assimilate those immigratnts who cannot be deported. This turns into “Fred wants to import millions….” Where does he get this stuff? It is a sort of illiteracy of the higly literate. And confirms my views of Alt-Righters.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Mr. Reed,

    The issue turns on this phrase.


    those immigratnts who cannot be deported
     
    I and others who are not white nationalists or alt-righters have the distinct impression that this means "all of them-- now or in the future". Of course you may think otherwise, but I do not think an impartial reader would get that idea from your columns. I certainly don't.

    However, I will keep this comment in mind when reading your columns in future. Perhaps it will change my interpretation.

    Thanks,
    R. Bremner
    , @Mishra
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Where does he get this stuff? It is a sort of illiteracy of the higly literate. And confirms my views of Alt-Righters.
     
    Now, now. Let's not generalize, shall we? Even about 'immigratnts'. And while we're at it, the website link on your posts currently reads "fredoneverythng.org"...

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @Anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Karlin so wants you to be this straw man he has created of you so you will be easier to beat. He does this all the time with people he disagrees with.

    , @Rurik
    @Frederick V. Reed


    assimilate those immigratnts who cannot be deported.
     

    And confirms my views of Alt-Righters.
     
    perhaps the problem is your assimilation solution

    you advocate blending with the Mexicans by marriage, don't you?

    and any reluctance to do so, you mock as 'gas station louts trying to protect their bodily fluids',

    don't you?

    but here's the problem..

    how do you get Mexicans like George Lopez

    https://www.nettv4u.com/uploads/george-donates-funds-to-princers-family..png

    to show a romantic interest in American white women like Lana Lokteff

    https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/mFlJGk31TWN32bXctJ82rgtPwiw=/0x0:1578x828/1200x800/filters:focal(592x259:844x511)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/56727059/Lokteff.0.png

    when, as she points out in the video, Mexicans have no interest in dating 'flat ass white whores'?!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5DqTJz9zFk

    so I hope Fred will contemplate this dilemma. Perhaps the solution is butt implants?

    what do you think Fred...

    how can we get Lana and George together to breed that 'America of the future' you advocate?!

    Replies: @MikeatMikedotMike

    , @Anatoly Karlin
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I have not been following this thread since I left for Romania on June 1.

    However, Fred kindly directed my attention to this comment, where he further expounded on his thoughts. The bulk of my response is reprinted below:

    1. I am not Alt Right, I am a Russian nationalist, just as you are a Mexican nationalist. Consequently, I am not overly (if at all) concerned with American immigration policy, including as it pertains to Mexico. Obviously, American nationalists, such as Thorfinnsson, will be extremely concerned and indeed "triggered" by it. But at the end of the day, I really am quite indifferent to this issue.

    2. I read only some of your articles (perhaps 25%). Of those I skim more than I read approximately half. I do not recall where you said that mass immigration was a mistake, but if so, apologies for inadvertently misrepresenting your position. However, your opposition (as I recall) even to relatively tame measures such as DACA repeal does make you an immigration dove in practice. I find it difficult to imagine you closing off the borders to any appreciable extent if you were to magically become US President.

    3. It is slightly ironic that you criticize me for misrepresenting the details of your position, but ascribe general positions to me that are far more incredible ("Fred thinks Mexicans are decent people and so favors mass immigration through open borders, the destruction of the white race, and the end of Western civilization"). If you read through my comments to your blog, you would note that I am neither a Latinophobe (addressing your excess Latinophilia is not Latinophobia), and if you read me more generally, you would also note that my concerns for the white race or Western civilization are quite limited.

    Objectively, it seems pretty likely that the Hispanics will not converge to US White IQ levels (even the early generations of Mexican immigrants haven't, as Jason Richwine pointed out; so expecting this of Guatemalans seems all the more unrealistic). As the Hispanic share of the population increases due to higher fertility rates, younger age profiles, and continued immigration/family reunification, there will be negative pressure on average IQ - that is presumably a bad thing for the US, since lower IQ correlates well with many other negative things. OTOH, a more Latin US will lower the drinking age of 18 (nice for teens), more street graffiti (tastes differ), will have less political correctness (good for non-SJWs), and will be decidedly less enraptured by the prospect of fighting more wars for Israel (good for almost everyone).

    Replies: @Rurik, @manorchurch

  • Some may be aware that when I originally established The Unz Review over four years ago one of my main motives was to have a convenient venue for my own writing, a situation necessitated by my removal as Publisher of The American Conservative. However, other matters intervened, and all but a few months of my...
  • FWIW, when I was writing an end-of-the-book column for TAC, I was told that in racial matters I could write about affirmative action but not about intelligence. And yes, Kara was an ace.

  • “Hatched, matched, and dispatched”—my mother’s term for the births, marriages, and deaths columns in our local paper. Let's visit the hatcheries. What's mainly happening in the hatcheries: a slowdown of business. Americans are not making as many babies as we used to: Births plunge to record lows in United States, MSN, May 17, 2018. The...
  • ZPG. Does this mean an end to hysterical stories about Hispanic teenagers breeding like flies? Is nothing sacred? Next we will hear that they are learning English, or pouring into California’s universities. The horror.

    • Replies: @DFH
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Anything to justify your miscegenation

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed

    What is "ZPG"? (I'm sure it'll be obvious once you tell me.)

    From what I've read, it's the 1st generation immigrant populations that have the highest fertility rates. That means illegal Mexicans and C. Americans in particular (along with the Moslems). It's still not a good thing for us though, and, yeah, they were learning English, but California wants to remedy that again (and mucho kudos to our host who I believe was instrumental in the removal of that bilingual-ed crap... but .... it's baaaaack!)

    Replies: @Peter Johnson

  • From Journal of Human Resources: The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance* Eric A. Hanushek, Marc Piopiunik, Simon Wiederhold March 20, 2018 Abstract International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality...
  • What are “cognitive skills”? Can I get a list?

  • It's been a depressing few days on the immigration front. Not least depressing has been the collapse of the lawsuits against Disney World. Just to remind you: Disney was in the news three years ago for laying off American IT workers and replacing them with cheaper workers from India on H-1B visas. The American workers...
  • Does anyone think that Trump or anyone else is going to push 800,000 people across the border by any means whatever? Ending DACA will just unemploy them and add them to the underclass. Brilliant. Just brilliant. Call it the separation of policy and arithmetic.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I hate to tell you this, but a good chunk of them are already part of the underclass. You don't live here, so I doubt you would know. There aren't a whole lot of valedictorians in the "dreamer" crowd. What they could do is get reunited with their families down in the old country. According to your writings, Mexico is an up-and-coming powerhouse, post siesta anyway, and the US is a shithole. If they moved home*, wouldn't that be a win/win?

    No matter what, at some point you've got to start enforcing the law. If nothing else, not making these 800,000 citizens will prevent 3,000,000 more in family chain-migration from happening. Have you thought of that, Mr. Reed? No? Call that separation of thought from tequila.

    * Oh, "America IS their home", you say? In that case let's observe who cheers for whom at the Olympic soccer games.

    Replies: @KenH

    , @Propagandist Hacker
    @Frederick V. Reed

    how about we hang them?

    , @manorchurch
    @Frederick V. Reed


    Ending DACA will just unemploy them and add them to the underclass.
     
    Okay, then end DACA and deny welfare benefits to illegals. They figured out how to get here; they can figure out how to get back to Guatemala and environs. And, by god, they can FIX GUATEMALA. And Mexico. And El Salvador. And Costa Rica. And Nicaragua.

    Son of a BITCH, they can tend to their own goddamn knitting!!!

    Destiny awaits.
  • For our Social Justice Warriors, race differences in intelligence absolutely cannot be acknowledged to be genetic. If that happens, they sense, then racial inequality in outcomes will have to be accepted as fair and their entire religion of cultural determinism, the thing that gives SJWs their power, will be discredited. This sends them into paroxysms...
  • The paper should be published regardless of who doesn’t like it. Intelligence is clearly largely genetic, as witness pit bulls and Border Collies. Yet something else may be going on. Think the lumiferous ether before Michaelson-Morley.

    Pure-blooded MesoAmerican Indians in Mexico have a mean IQ of 83, yet invented writing, done perhaps three times in all history, as well as the wheel and an exponential-positional number system, better than anything in Europe at the time, and built five-story concrete buildings, one of which I have been in.

    Colombiams have a mean IQ of 84, but run a country with airlines, telecommunications etc and design and build skyscrapers.

    American blacks have a mean IQ of 85, and therefore are capable of inventing writing and number systems as well as running modern cities with internet and so on.

    • Replies: @Wally
    @Frederick V. Reed

    said:
    "Pure-blooded MesoAmerican Indians in Mexico have a mean IQ of 83, yet invented writing, done perhaps three times in all history, as well as the wheel and an exponential-positional number system, better than anything in Europe at the time, and built five-story concrete buildings, one of which I have been in.
    Colombiams have a mean IQ of 84, but run a country with airlines, telecommunications etc and design and build skyscrapers.
    American blacks have a mean IQ of 85, and therefore are capable of inventing writing and number systems as well as running modern cities with internet and so on
    ."

    No they don't. It's the Europeans around those cultures which do the heavy lifting.

    The cultural Marxists have arrived. LOL

    Replies: @Andrew E. Mathis

    , @RaceRealist88
    @Frederick V. Reed

    "Intelligence is clearly largely genetic"

    How much is "largely genetic" and how do you parse "genes" from "environment"?

    "yet invented writing, done perhaps three times in all history, as well as the wheel and an exponential-positional number system, better than anything in Europe at the time, and built five-story concrete buildings, one of which I have been in."

    What does old thousdand+ year old civilizational achievement have to do with 'IQ'?

    "Colombiams have a mean IQ of 84, but run a country with airlines, telecommunications etc and design and build skyscrapers."

    Maybe 'IQ' doesn't mean anything? Crazy talk. . .

    "American blacks have a mean IQ of 85, and therefore are capable of inventing writing and number systems as well as running modern cities with internet and so on."

    You're basing this on 'IQ' numbers from today, extrapolating 'IQ' numbers from modern peoples who are the descendants of the peoples who did the accomplishments . . . is this a joke?

    , @TheBoom
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred, all those groups mentioned generate very little innovation especially in STEM where the innovation is from groups with higher IQs. The groups you mention are more consumers and adapters than innovators. If all of Latin America and Sub Saharan Africa were removed from history very little would be lost.

    , @utu
    @Frederick V. Reed


    The paper should be published regardless of who doesn’t like it.
     
    Why don't you start Fred's Journal of Yahoo Science and publish it? What do you know about scientific standards? Piffer's paper should have been shot down and it was. It is strange however that some reviewers gave it a pass. This what you get when referees are anonymous.
  • I'm having a fire sale on education stories this week. Also a parallel fire sale on quotes from my 2009 book We Are Doomed, because the education chapter of that book was the most fun to write and it's pertinent to this week's stories. Here's a sort of keynote quote from that chapter: Education story...
  • In a piece of 1700 words on racial differences, wouldn’t you expect an honest observer to note, in perhaps one or two sentences, the stark difference between the often very nearly illitrate Hispanics in the US and the very differnt picture of, say, Mexican kids in Mexico? Whatever the explanation, ignoring the question, or perhaps simply not knowing enough to know that there is a question, is, well, normal.

    • Replies: @manorchurch
    @Frederick V. Reed


    In a piece of 1700 words on racial differences, wouldn’t you expect an honest observer to note, in perhaps one or two sentences, the stark difference between the often very nearly illitrate Hispanics in the US and the very differnt picture of, say, Mexican kids in Mexico?
     
    Yes, one would expect that. One might also ask why a "responsible, modern, education-oriented" regime, like that of Mexico, would dump its poor and uneducatable into the American kiddie pool?

    I do not want to pay to "educate" 2SD foreign brats. That's why there's laws against illegal border crossing, laws against hiring illegal aliens, and laws requiring citizenship or equivalence of children enrolled in public schools. I want those laws enforced in my country - just as diligently as those laws are enforced in Mexico.

    Replies: @Jake, @Anon7, @RadicalCenter

    , @anon
    @Frederick V. Reed

    If there really is such a stark difference between the illiterate hispanics in the US and their compatriots in Mexico, Mexico would not be such a shithole.

    , @Yan Shen
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Well I'm not nearly as sanguine about Hispanics as you are, but since I'm also not one of those crazy white nationalist types, I do agree with you that white nationalist thinking is often sloppy at best. For instance, white nationalists rarely if ever distinguish between the obviously superior performance of many African immigrant groups in this country versus the lackluster performance of African Americans, both educationally and behaviorally.

    https://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/

    The possibility that there may be cognitively elite subgroups such as the Igbo or the Yoruba surely would one of the most interesting discoveries of HBD and perhaps offer some hopeful path forward for an obviously bad situation in that part of the world. Alas, apart from morbidly fantasizing about feral blacks holding knives to his children's throats, I haven't really seen Derbyshire ever discussing these sorts of far more interesting things...

    I grew up in Texas and participated in competitive mathematics in high school and I seem to remember that there were a particular group of schools with large Hispanic populations down in the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area that actually had a number of high performing Hispanics, a few who were particularly renowned for their competitive mathematics prowess.

    Replies: @AndrewR

    , @gcochran
    @Frederick V. Reed

    There's a very simple explanation: you're wrong. Mexican kids do worse than US Hispanics on PISA.

    In most of northern Mexico, kids do worse than US Hispanics, but better than blacks.

    In most of southern Mexico, kids do worse than US blacks.


    "The DF (Mexico City) with a score of 445.11 and Queretaro with a score of 440.43 are the only states that do better (barely) than US Hispanics (439)."

    Replies: @res

  • Here's a story from across the pond, a story about negrolatry. Don't reach for your dictionary; I just made that word up. And yes, to you pedants: I mixed Latin and Greek together. So sue me. You get the idea, anyway. Here I'm working the late Larry Auster's theme that to guilty white liberals, blacks...
  • Do May and the pols believe this stuff? The general public? Or are the May and gang just working the rubes for votes?

  • Trump pulled the trigger, but instead of a “bang!” what the world heard was a demure “click”. Considering that we are talking about playing a most dangerous game of potentially nuclear Russian AngloZionist roulette, the “click” is very good news indeed. But, to use the words of Nikki Haley, the US “gun” is still “locked...
  • We are told that all the missiles hit their targets, that seventy percent were shot down by Soviet-era anti-aircraft defenses, and everything between. I wish someone with the knowledge to do so would say what if anything was shot down by what, what the incoming missiles were, and so on. Soviet weaponry was lousy almost across the board and across decades. If the seventy-percent figure is correct, which I extremely doubt, US effectiveness has gone backward.

    • Replies: @Alfa158
    @Frederick V. Reed

    In the air war over Vietnam, once both sides had optimized their tactics and weapons systems, only 2% of the SA-2 missiles fired scored hits. In the Hanoi bombing campaign the NV fired over 1,000 missiles to bring down 15 big fat B-52s lumbering along at high altitude on known courses. One of the rules of warfare is that your miracle weapon will probably not work as well in practice as it does in theory. Murphy’s Law rules the battlefield. 79% shot down is simply not credible for small targets flying at low altitude, coming in singly and on different approaches. It is credible that a number of the missiles did go astray or land intact. Again, stuff doesn’t work as well as you expect, and that applies for both sides.

    Replies: @FB, @Joe Stalin

    , @Ronald Thomas West
    @Frederick V. Reed

    "Soviet era" is a bit of propaganda coming from the Russian side, technically correct in that the system the Syrians are recently in possession of are based on model that had been developed in Soviet era but overlooking multiple upgrades since. It is these 'modernized' units are what had been recently provided to Syrian forces and the S-1 is a new beast:

    https://southfront.org/russia-delivered-40-pantsir-s1-air-defense-systems-to-syria-state-media/

    &

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsir-S1#Pantsir-SA

    Noteworthy is, this is the system that would be required to protect the longer range S-300 Russia is now saying the Syrians could be given on account of the USA's recent 'adventure.' So part one of the S-300 is already in place. Also it is noteworthy that, since the Israelis' recently lost the F-15, they seem to have fallen back to a more distant air to ground missile launch tactic (no bombing.)

    One thing I don't see talked about is the why of the missiles tactical route; where the Russian fleet has been positioned between Syria and the NATO fleet ... and there was no overflight of the Russian fleet whose position prevented ship launches (presuming launches headed towards the Russian fleet would have demanded immediate engagement by the Russian side as a fleet protection precaution.)

  • It’s the blecks (1): Guns. My biggest email bag of the month came after I hypothesized, in the March 23rd Radio Derb, that the enthusiasm white Americans display for owning guns, unusualamong Western nations, is connected to the other distinctive thing about our country: the presence in it, from the beginning, of a large black...
  • What Mr. Derbyshire says in re blacks and Hispanics is entirely correct in my considerable experience of both but runs against the assertions of the Alt-Right that theLatin presence results in a crime wave. I have walked the streetsof Guadalajara for some fifteen yeas without receiving a cross look. I do not recommend trying it in Detroit.

  • Amy Wax, a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania is now being subjected to a SECOND Two Minutes Hate by our Emerging Totalitarian Left. I should say—having some slight acquaintance with the lady—that Professor Wax is a formidable person to take on in combat, not only intellectually but also in personality. I...
  • Picnic ants attacking a Border Collie.I wish Mr. Derbyshire would write a piece detailing his observations of the academic quality of students and courses at schools which he has visited. I have a daughter who teaches at various schools–George Mason, Brown, Amherst, what have you–andmy impression through her is that quality has dropped drastically since the early Sixties, but she is too young to make the comparison.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Frederick V. Reed

    I have first-hand knowledge, Mr. Reed, of a big decline in one particular technical major that I know about. It's been a major decline from just the early 1990's to the early '10's, but I'd put most of it in the 2nd of those 2 decades.

    I would say that most of the cause is the huge university bubble that we are undergoing, due to US Feral Gov't backing of student loans. Tuition goes up in proportion to how much students CAN borrow, as the universities have no stake in how this "investment", mostly in 4-6 years of a good time, pans out. The banks will loan large amounts to anyone, no matter what major, and no matter how intelligent, as they also have nothing at all to lose, no matter the outcome. It's a WIN/WIN/LOSE for the UNIVERSITIES/BANKS/TAXPAYERS respectively.

    Universities are making a killing, with the majority not going to professors, but for facilities, and lots of white-collar make-work dieversity-dean type jobs. They just want to fill seats now and get big grant money via the work of the relatively cheap Chinese/dot-Indian technical labor, and education is way down the list of priorites.

    Peak Stupidity has more on the financial and personal aspects of the University Bubble from personal experience. (That's the 1st post, and the rest is here, here, and here.) Oh, and then there's the textbook scam - not helping a bit.

  • After 20 years of silence from academics, Nathan Cofnas has written a comprehensive critical review of The Culture of Critique in an academic venue. I have been waiting for this to happen and was beginning to think it never would. Academics want their work to be taken seriously, and honest academics value the rough and...
  • The doctrine of evolutionary selection does not seem reliable, for Jews or anyone else. There exist genes for the intelligence of Hawking, the eyesight of Ted Williams, the strength, agility, and endurance of Mohamed Ali. These have not becomes common in the population, and indeed seem no more so than in classical antiquity. Either these traits do not contribute to fitness, or something is wrong with the whole enterprise. No? Which would make theories of evolutionary strategies—does evolution have strategies?–somewhat questionable.

    • Replies: @Wizard of Oz
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Fred, I think you off the usual beam wrt evolution snd natural selection but I was already looking for somewhere to express my puzzlement over Kevin McDonald's interesting research having nothing about DNA and actual gene studies as far as I know so I have sympathy for the drift of your comment.

    Still I think you are in error in ignoring the logic which tells you that a number of genetic mutations become fixed and the alleles quite common because they improve fitness but that the combinations plus epigenetic factors and environmental contributions that produce thr Hawking or Williams or Muhammad Ali talents are rare. That doesn't mean that the genes/alleles in question haven't been selected because, in the relevant rnvironmental niche, they improved fitness.

  • After a considerable delay, I'm now pleased to announce the full release of my HTML Book presentation system, oriented toward the display of very long-form content, including scholarly books, in convenient web format. This system initially contains some 200 million words of mostly copyright-expired books, but I hope to grow it considerably over time. Here's...
  • As one whose columns get a lot of abusive comments, I would appreciate a very simple way of adding commenters to the Ignore list, such as maybe tripe or double clicking on the name.

    • Replies: @Ron Unz
    @Frederick V. Reed


    As one whose columns get a lot of abusive comments, I would appreciate a very simple way of adding commenters to the Ignore list, such as maybe tripe or double clicking on the name.
     
    Actually, it already exists. Just click the "Agree/Disagree/Etc." button to open a popup window, then click the "Ignore Commenter" button on that window.

    Regarding the extreme slowness of the Commenter Archive pages, that's very odd. I just tested half a dozen of them, and they all opened pretty quickly, in just a few seconds each. Have other people been experiencing the same problems?

    Replies: @res, @Anon, @Astuteobservor II

    , @anonymous
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Mr. Reed, your columns also receive good faith criticism that you choose to ignore. (It appears that this is your tenth comment on this website, and that the only one under your own columns was in response to Mr. Unz.) For example, several commenters under the current "Civil Insurrection" have addressed your fallacious equivalence of state laws concerning marijuana and immigration. I believe that they're correct. But you should either concede or argue the point, especially if you've time here to criticize the forum.*

    *There's also the safe space option made available to Mr. Roberts.

    Replies: @RobinG, @Anon

  • Things are moving so fast in genetic research on intelligence that one cannot take a coffee break without missing important announcements. By way of small compensation, even the biggest breakthroughs are based on previous breakthroughs, so most stories in science are about a pattern of results rather than a single paper, and that pattern eventually...
  • The upshot is that the Chinese, clearly more intelligent than whites and outnumber whites with a billion Han Chinese to America’s 200 million whites, must inevitably, short of nuclear war, dominate the inferior races, including us. They are well on the way to doing this, for example completely dominating US high-end high schools and technical universities. I suggest that on the basis of genetics we should go quietly into the night in the interest of, like Neanderthals, allowing the advance of humanity.

    • Replies: @mikemikev
    @Frederick V. Reed

    How much of this is due to Confucius-memorisation try-hard conscientiousness and not actual brilliance? These East Asians certainly take places but how often do they end up demonstrating creative genius? Of course Whites should allow East Asians to replace their kids in the institutions they created because they wouldn't want to be called "racist" (the actual and only counterargument I've heard) and the money they pay made from mass produced copies of our tech doesn't hurt.

    , @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Frederick V. Reed

    Now that's the Fred I love. Cutting and wry.

    Regardless, what the IQ worshippers forget is that is call Survival of the Fittest, Not Survival of Smartest.

    To look at birthrates around the world, it appears that our current environment is best suited to Sub-Saharan Africans. However, that said, it seems to me that the great advantage that the Han have over Europeans and their disaspora is not so much a couple of extra IQ points but the willingness to guard their borders and to not find joy in the sucide of one's own people.

    , @Pericles
    @Frederick V. Reed

    There are nearly a billion Whites too, if you count the entire world. For example, the EU has a population of more than 400 million, not all black. Furthermore, there is Russia, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, even South Africa, and so on.

    Then there also are about four or five billion belonging to the 'other' category. Clearly the reproductive spoils of modernity have not gone to its originators.

  • Will sex differences never end? Sometimes they seem to go one way, sometimes the other, with the gaps closing or staying resolutely the same, but this is the March of Science, as different schools contend, and as new results are added to the old. We should be glad that researchers delve into these matters, particularly...
  • Why is it that I used to read that at the eight-hundred level there were more boys that girls on the SAT?