If his family originally , it could be French. Otherwise, English.

There was a large jewish community in Egypt since the times of the successors of Alexander the Great and Egypt was later one of the destinations for the Sephardim expelled from Spain. It is unlikely Saban’s ancestors came from the French colonies as the Sephardi jews in Maghreb were pretty happy with french rule.
If they spoke English, they learned it locally to deal with the colonial authorities as Egypt was a de facto British colony.

Next year is going to be a strong competition for the Nobel between Kanye West and Taylor Swift.

not enough chicks

The SWPL actually want this. I was talking to a white guy who got into Caltech, but didn’t go there, because it was not diverse enough for him, too many whites (27%) and asians (45%).

Vae victis.

Mittens was a one-term governor, not a seasoned politician.

Trump did OK. There’s only one metric that matters in a presidential debate – who gained/lost voters. Examining which candidate gave more polished answers is only a proxy for voters lost/gained.

Trump did miss his “killshot” chance. Lester Holt colluded with somebody on his cybersecurity question. Hillary has got big, big problems on the cybersecurity front, and Holt’s question was so generic and carefully tailered that it allowed her to look hawkish on cybersecurity while steering totally clear of her private server scandal. Trump could have said “The FBI has already concluded that you were ‘extremely careless’ in keeping our national secrets on an unsecured, illegal private server – and now you stand up here and say your all about cybersecurity? What a joke!”

Agree.

Mixed race children tend to have more mental health problems.

Is It Better To Be Mixed Race? Yes.

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Mixed-race relationships are making us taller and smarter…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3146070/Mixed-race-relationships-making-taller-smarter-Children-born-genetically-diverse-parents-intelligent-ancestors.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis#Humans

Paul Kersey has said it best: it’s time to stop watching American professional sports. They are an opiate of the masses and have been ruined by diversity/lefty politics.

A comment that was NYT approved and one of the highest voted on the article about Clinton’s pneumonia was:

J.D. USA 1 hour ago
— And yet, I’d rather have an unconscious Clinton than a conscious Trump in office.

They want Clinton not because who she is, but because she will allow the establishment to continue their actions unimpeded. She could be dead and they will still rally around her like she was El Cid.

Bingo.

Most things in this world can be explained in terms of supply and demand. I think the emergence of these for-profit orgs indicates there is very strong demand for an alternative to the traditional 4 year university. 4 years is too leisurely. Keeping everything within a campus enclave is too geographically limiting. Tuition for a ridiculous major, such as things with “Studies” in the name, is the same as tuition for STEM major. Professors in non-STEM disciplines make way too much money. I would guess that half of the students enrolled really have no business being in a 4 year program. There needs to be 7-8 new types of degrees, in addition to ye olde bachelor’s degree, that are quicker, require fewer credits and are more focused on what students really need. I don’t care if my accountant has read Canterbury Tales or studied western civ, but he needs to know accounting. So have them study accounting.

It is weird.
Maybe the collapse of the israeli left and Netanyahu explicit actions to preserve the jewish character of the state has led to a more traditionalist way of thinking?
Maybe israelis have now more confidence in their future?

Agree.

Arabs are middle eastern whites (a different branch than the europeans though) mixed with about 20% subsaharan african genes as a result of the massive black slave trade the arabs did before, during and after the european slave trade in Africa. So most arabs are a mix of 80-20 of caucasian and african. In reality it varies widely between arabic groups, but the arabs from the Arabic peninsula carried a massive slave trade in the Indian Ocean via Oman and Yemen to Zanzibar (which had an arab sultan) and the swahili coast, so they ended up having more african ancestry. Henry Morton Stanley’s books shed a little light on this East African slave trade carried long after the brits (and the americans) stopped the slave trade in the Atlantic.
The bin Laden family is originally from Yemen, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they had a high SSA admixture.
Kaepernick’s dad was African American so he probably had 18-24% european genes (that’s the average)
That means Kaepernick could be a 75-25 mix of caucasian and african not that different from the proportions of the arab mix.
Obama looks fairly black because his dad was 100% african, so he ended up resembling a lighter skinned african-american.

There is a 8000 acres ranch for sale in Sonoma for 39 million that Zuck could easily buy. Or he could do like Larry Ellison and build a japanese imperial palace in Woodside, not far from Stanford. Or he could have bought a house in super exclusive Atherton, that is fairly close to his workplace. Zuck bought a house in Palo Alto, near the poor and largely hispanic East Palo Alto, not only because it’s close to his job, but mainly because he wants to be seen as a regular person.
Still he has bought a large, 100 million dollars worth, estate in Hawaii that he is encircling with a giant wall.

I forgot to add that the Danes did conquer the entire England, during the reign of Cnut the Great and held it without much opposition for 30 years, but by this point the Danes were also mostly Christians.

There was little difference between the germanic peoples that settled Britain before and during the Viking Age. Even those in the first wave mostly came from Denmark and the regions directly south.

Both waves also shared many cultural aspects even after those in Britain moved towards Christianity as proved by Beowulf and the Sutton Hoo findings.

Barf of a Nation

The success of red state policies in Texas draws increasing numbers of blue voters until the state will be flipped. Then the newly enacted blue policies will start driving the red tribe out, making the state even more blue in a self strengthening cycle.
North Carolina trans law may have driven some investors out, but it could serve as a way of keeping the ultraliberals out and preserve the current political balance of the state.

I meant the London one.

Scared Muslims who pleaded for more police protection in the neighborhood immediately suspected the murders were a hate crime.

Initially I misread as Sacred Muslims.

This is a phenomenon that happens in some muslim countries as well, as more muslims adopt wahhabist customs imported from Saudi Arabia.
The first time I was in Turkey you could recognize the iranian and arab tourists because they were the only ones wearing hijabs and burkinis. The last time I was there there were lots of women wearing this stuff, even in upscale Istanbul neighbourhoods. This is more surprising because traditionally turkish women wore colorful shalwar pants not those black trash bags.
Even more depressing is to go to Hyde Park and see countless women in black burqas looking, indeed, like they are claiming the turf, a turf where modernity was born.

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

It was fascinating to watch on reddit and youtube tv live feeds as the plot developed and collapsed.
The coup was very amateurish, from doing it on a Friday night at 10 PM, in the summer, when everybody is out and about, to failing to secure the president and the prime minister.
It is also clear that they were opposed by other security forces and even branches of the military.
Maybe they expected more support from the opposition and the West?
Anyway, Sultan Erdogan is back in the saddle and this will be the perfect excuse to purge anyone left who is opposing him, both kemalists and gulenists.

No time for cleaning:

MILITARY COUP IN PROGRESS IN TURKEY

The best fit for his campaign would have been Condoleezza Rice, a black woman with foreign policy credentials (even if her foreign policy was a giant mistake, but politicians don’t have to own their mistakes).

Good for you /u/akarlin

The biggest development is that the syrian government forces have conquered positions overlooking Castello road, the last rebel controlled road out of Aleppo. This morning Jabhat al-Nusra admitted that their counteroffensive to clear the Mallah farms failed with various islamist groups losing 75 men, including 7 commanders. If things go well it is possible that this summer Syria’s biggest city will return completely to regime control.
Another big success was in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel enclave near Damascus, where Assad’s forces took advantage of rebel infighting and gained important positions.
Removing the threats on Aleppo and Damascus will greatly strengthen the regime, so I expect Assad’s internal and external enemies to do their best to prevent these victories.
Saker’s opinion that things are about to change is a good one.

Israel has subs in the region, underwater drones etc.

Yes, Russia has too but that is beyond the point–what Israel has anything to do with Kuznetsov’s possible deployment? Israel wants to fight a naval engagement against Russia? Good luck with that.

Pannonia and Britain were not really christian when the Empire lost control of them.

Have you reviewed Angry Birds before and I missed it? If not then I’m surprised you had so little to say about it. It was by far the most Alt Right, shitlordy movie I’ve ever seen. The fact that it had to get made independently and could only get it’s winks and nods across in a kids movie speaks volumes about how hard it is to slip genuinely counter narrative messages into the mainstream.
Why was there a truck with ‘hamesty international’ on it on the pig island? Somebody is aware. For gods sake it had Muslims/green pigs with beards flying planes! It even had the Europeans waking up that america aka the great eagle had grown fat and lazy and they would have to save themselves – and we’ve just had the brexit vote before america has had a chance to make it’s own anti-immigration voice heard.. There were seriously dozens of shout outs in this movie.

Is there such a thing as employee loyalty to start with?

London voted to Remain because it is an Islamic city

Fire bad, tree pretty

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When european national elites usually have “a politicized left wing power trip for the worst self-enriching bureaucrats” is no surprise that the supranational bureaucracy is the same.
It is not the EU that has rolled the welcome mat for the Million Muslim Men Mob, but the governments of Germany, Italy, Greece, Sweden etc.

Showing anti immigrant sentiment against poles is far more politically acceptable then showing it against pakistanis, so this was the easy step.
Anyway, I doubt that the UK will actually leave the EU. The elites will find a reason to ignore the result (that is non binding) or to hold another referendum.

They could already do that in regard to non-EU immigrants.

And a big part of Brexit was about favouring POC immigrants from Commonwealth countries over east europeans.
Brexit will speed, not stop the browning of Britain.

You really have to wonder what they could have done differently to prevent this.

College administrators have the atom bomb of punishments. They could have threatened, and then carried through with, expulsions. Like this.

The problem in US universities today isn’t that students have gotten out of control. It’s that the faculties are are out of control, and they’re using the students as pawns.

Pearls thoroughly clutched? Karlin always uses the cool kids slang

They become Jihadists because Islamic culture allows them to be, through its veneration of martyrdom. If you’ve got a quick path to glory, it doesn’t take much to push you down it.

Meanwhile, the user @JayMan471 and the HBD thinktank has been spamming us with the following map (see right). We have no idea what it means and our reporters are avidly scouring the globe for anyone who can give us a clue, or for that matter even gives a shit.

Nice one.

Obama blamed gun laws.
Top NYT commenters said christians do far worse things to gays.
On Reddit, the default news subreddit simply deleted all posts and comments after it turned out that the shooter was muslim, including calls for donating blood, but it backfired as the posts on the sub dedicated to Trump gained all the attention.

“FOE-KA-HON-TIS”

Rhymes with Pocahontas

Though Jokeahontas is also acceptable

Most NRX are throne-and-altar types that have created the most comprehensive rejection of liberalism and you still see them as liberals?

The continuing african demographic explosion means that the charismatic african megafauna is in deep trouble.
Even if the mega slums attract a large part of the population the pressure for more resources means that even marginal agricultural lands will be put to use. Not even nature reserves are safe, being constantly invaded by poachers and pastoralists. With many african states ranging between failed to deeply corrupt their defence relies on foreign donors.
This evolution contrasts with the rewilding of Europe and North America that sees growth of forests and protected areas and the reintroduction of species in areas where they went extinct.
It will be heartening in Asia follows in this aspect as well a western model rather than an african one.

There was a study that showed that professionally successful women and feminists are more masculine than the average woman by studying the digit ratio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio

Maybe you should read the article before commenting. Nobody said that she is “a genius pulling strings, playing 3D chess against dimwitted opponents unable to think their way out of a paper bag.”

Thanks.

The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It was initially founded for eastern European countries, under the Soviet bloc of influence, but eventually other countries participated as well. Because of this eastern origin, the earlier IMOs were hosted only in eastern European countries, and gradually spread to other nations.
Romania and Hungary are 2 small countries who punch far above their weight, but they also are among the first to organize and take part in IMO and probably they pay more attention to it then other countries.

There was no prescription against christians practicing medicine. Most famous doctors of the Middle Ages were venetians. Most medieval universities had medicine schools besides law and theology.
I’m not sure when Ashkenazi started practicing medicine for gentiles, but I think that is much later than the rise of the Medici family. Until the enlightenment they largely stuck to money lending and some exotic trade.

How does EU membership preclude the UK leaving the ECHR which as you noted is under a different organization, the Council of Europe?

Mohamed was likely influenced by ebionites, a sect who regarded Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah while rejecting his divinity and insisted on the necessity of following Jewish law and rites.

He covered this repeatedly.

In 2008 the democratic primary were disputed up till the convention and then O clobbered McCain.

There’s a rumour that he is ill and Hillary has kept it quiet so she could play the sympathy card at the right point before the election.

I’ve seen lots of orthodox christian palestinians that still live in Nazareth and Bethlehem who are the best approximation of the population during roman times and all of them were white skinned and lots had blue or green eyes.
They looked more like greeks or italians then egyptians.

I could listen for days to Craig Ferguson chatting up Karen Gillan.

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Erdogan and his clique wrongly imprisoned so many people and stole so much money that to lose power would mean facing imprisonment and even a firing squad. Becoming entrenched in power is their only chance and of course it means that they can keep stealing and wrongly imprisoning opponents.

I think you’re kidding abt “who could have known”?

There was the Turkish army, Geert Wilders, Israel, dozens of “islamophobic” activists, etc. for starters. Also, many Turkish secularist intellectuals & national rivals warned for years and years.

And, for those who wanted to listen, Erdogan was always fairly honest abt both his Ottoman revivalist and Islamist ambitions.

The Turkish secular example was a pipe dream. Only viable for Istanbul & the formerly Greek coastal areas. In Euro countries w/ many Turkish migrants hardly anybody ever thought of Turks as modernist minded.

NYT just published a sob piece about kids shooting themselves clearly designed to raise emotional support for gun control.
The first kid mentioned was black, the second white and the last 2 not identified by race but Za’veon Amari Williams looks black in photos I found online from local newspapers and Kiyan Shelton (son of Kanisha) has a black sounding name.
Looks like the democrats are going to try again to depict gun control as a public health issue, maybe one who impacts protected minorities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/us/guns-children-deaths.html

I really hope that Hillary campaigns on gun control. Nothing else would rally the conservatives behind Trump like this topic.

They are Star Trek fans.

Not only emperors appointed key orthodox clergymen like the patriarchs, they supervised Church Councils and interfered in matters of doctrine choosing sides and punishing pagans, schismatics and heretics.
Orthodox church ceilings are dominated by an image of Christ Pantocrator (the Almighty) connecting faith with imperial imagery.
The emperor, his family and his court were earthly counterparts of the heavenly kingdom that had Christ as emperor, and Mary, the saints and the martyrs as his court.

Steve Sailer quoting Nate Silver who is linking to Scott Alexander, my blogosphere in a nutshell.

The traditional Church was, to a large extent, under imperial authority from its official birth during the reign of emperor Constantine to the fall of Constantinople.
This was preserved in the Eastern churches, rejected in the catholic church who claimed papal authority, and reinstated by some protestant denominations like the anglicans.
Separation of state and church would have been heresy for the first 700 years of christianity everywhere.

Most of interracial marriage in South Korea consists of korean farmers who are prosperous, but unappealing to korean women, going to Vietnam or other parts of SE Asia and bringing a bride from there.
This is a budding HBD problem because the children perform abysmally in the highly competitive korean education system (same problem with the children born in SK of migrant couples) and calls are being made to replace the meritocratic system with affirmative action.
I believe that koreans are endogamous regarding korean women and exogamous when is about korean men.

They won’t fool anybody with this. The “elites” are very out of touch, very uncool, so to speak.

The assumption is they can put a man-in-uniform up and enough conservatives will go dumb and vote for him out of doglike obedience. Not enough to win, just to keep the dreaded Trump from winning.

Won’t work.

Suddenly the elites seem like somebody’s great-Aunt trying to fit in with the rock crowd. As if they think they could revamp Pat Boone to compete with the Beatles.

Buncha squares.

I like World Order

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BTW the main guy is a former MMA fighter.

There was some protest about Daenerys being a white saviour of darker skinned slaves, but that was because her scenes were shot in Morocco. Now her scenes are being shot in Croatia so the slaves are europeans as well.

Indeed, there is a correlation between islamist radicalization and ethnic origins with arabs, pakistanis, somalis and chechens as champions of terrorism while turkish, indonesian and bangladeshi immigrants are less “problematic”, but that doesn’t take into account very possible future risks.
If something happens in Turkey will turkish diaspora become radicalized?

Christians are politically, economically and culturally dominant and occasionally harass the buddhists. The folk religion was disparaged and persecuted and it’s seen as superstitions made to exploit the gullible.
Last year there was a scandal when a woman claimed that her husband raped and pimped her children, but it turned out to be a money grabbing scheme connected with a shaman.
A blow for christians was that the Sewol ferry that capsized and killed hundreds of high school kids while the crew fled to safety was owned by an evangelical cult.
SK does have a lot of cults, christian or not, a bit weird compared with the high levels of atheism in China and Japan.

NYT has a piece about the domestication of dogs that should be of interest to you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/science/the-world-is-full-of-dogswithout-collars.html

OT: A nice source about Unauthorized Immigrant Population Profiles in the US by state and even some counties.

http://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/us-immigration-policy-program-data-hub/unauthorized-immigrant-population-profiles

It’s a visual effect of the map because the differences are not that big with most states in the 20’s range and the extremes just 19 points apart.

Bohemia is a foreign name, the czechs call that region Čechy, that is Czechia. Bohemia is also just one of the czech lands together with Moravia (and some say with czech Silesia but this is a more recent name)
But if they adopt this name they should make Bohemian Rhapsody their anthem.

Mentally disabled? They got screwed by a sperm bank.

If it were a straight family where the gal had polycystic ovaries or the guy had bad sperm you’d be sympathetic.

I’m not saying militant lesbians don’t create huge problems with feminism–the divorce landscape feminists have created is the big reason I’m seriously considering never marrying. But this ain’t that. This is a generic problem with sperm banks that could hit anyone and we’re hearing about it because it hit lesbians.

Santa Barbara is high on both lists and with a UC campus with it’s own surfer beaches that place seems to be truly blessed.

Talese published recently a brilliant piece about a voyeur motel owner who spied on his guests.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel

Gay Talese.

OT: Jackie of Haven Monahan fame is in trouble:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/business/media/jackie-in-rolling-stone-rape-article-must-testify-in-defamation-suit.html

Iran is friendly with Armenia, Turkey is very friendly with turkish speaking Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan has some claims to iranian territory, while Armenia and Turkey have poor relations over the acknowledgment of the armenian genocide.
The big Azeri military budget didn’t only buy weapons, but it also created friends among their providers of weapons and trainers: Turkey, Russia and Israel.

He was a honest scientist in dark times for scientific probity and that takes as much courage as hunting Cape buffalo in the Kalahari.

AFAIK Moldbug and Yudkowsky have nothing in common.

Genetically, middle easterners are a branch of the white race (or caucasians) distinct from europeans.
Liberals will say that being a POC is a social construct and people from MENAC are excluded from definitions of whiteness and discriminates, so they are not white.

Will jews be included in this MENA census category? I would also include people from Caucasus in here.

Private right of action (lawsuits, in other words) will fill in the gaps in California if public enforcement is lacking. There’s reasons you regularly see billboards for lawyers seeking wage and hour plaintiffs on buses, etc. A lot of these cases allow for class certification, kickback agreements aren’t legally enforceable (obviously), and wage, hour and working conditions lawsuits allow for recovery of attorney’s fees in California (a significant economic incentive for lawyers to find clients). Cal. Labor Code § 1194. Simply paying less than the minimum wage is a fairly easy thing to prove, relative to most employment law cases. Most wage & hour cases involve harder to prove claims like not giving meal and rest breaks, overtime, salaried employees, independent contractor vs. employee status, etc.

Cases like the Gulen cult, there are cultural and religious strictures that probably keep the followers from suing the imam, as well as probably threats of immigration consequences (they likely sponsor the visas). Illegals in California aren’t likely to face the same immigration consequences (they’re illegal anyway, and California state government won’t generally bother about that issue), and doubtful they’ll care enough about the crooked Persian business owner they were working for three years ago to forgo even a few hundred bucks as a class action claimant.

Granted, California’s court system is massively overloaded and a lot of dodgy employers can always declare bankruptcy or hide assets.

You are going to find lots of stupid and uninformed people everywhere.
The low quality of some college graduates is because there are too many of them, so college stopped signifying much.
The US does poorly in tests because of vibrants, Europe is racing US to the bottom in this.
What matters the most are the smart fraction and the dumb fraction. The US has enough prosperity to attract the smart from other countries and penalties harsh enough to keep the dumb in prison.
Smarter immigration policies would be nice, but as Richwine found out they come in conflict with the Zero Amendment and get you watsoned.

By the time of Plantations, the english settlements in Ireland, the irish were still semi-nomadic pastoralists living in clans ruled by petty kings.
Many of the colonists were scottish borderers who used to defend and raid the border between England and Scotland, but had nothing left to do after the Stuarts united the two british crowns, so the first Stuart king of England colonised many scottish borderers in Ireland.
These colonists become known as the Scotch-Irish and were persecuted because they were presbyterian, not anglican. Many moved to North America and their ancestry and their cultural influence is very important both in the US and Canada.

“The result is that they sold to Goldman Sachs 75 years of the right to put up parking meters.”

I hate Goldman as much as the next guy, but it was a consortium led by Morgan Stanley that got the business.

“They still couldn’t compete with Asians or other producers, because they have to pay up to 43% of their income for rent or mortgage interest ….”

That’s just stupid. I’ve lived in more than a few countries around the world, most of which compete with the US, and I and the locals around me were also paying a large chunk of our pay for accommodation.

“15% of their paycheck is automatic withholding to pay Social Security, to cut taxes on the rich or to pay for medical care.”

You should see what it is in other parts of the world.

As to the student loans and credit card debt, nobody forces a typical American into debt serfdom; they choose to don those chains rather than working to pay for school and otherwise delaying gratification.

Congrats on the job. With that punny name the company sounds a fun place.

While the court is obviously biased the serbians did commited the worst massacre of the yugoslav wars at Srebrenica, and Karadzic’s punishment is not that long.

I understand your point about the court in The Hague being unfair and too many Kosovar and Croat war criminals not getting punished, but how in the world is Karadzic not guilty as charged?

Once 4chan figured out how to mess with Tay’s algorithm they made it sound like /pol/
Now 4chan is busy tracking the mistresses of Ted Cruz after a newspaper published an article with their faces blurred.

Moldbug.

He kinda did with the Central American “child” migration, but that was far smaller in size and impact.

Intelligence is fragile, expensive and negatively impacts reproduction.

After EL Nino will start another 20 years plateau. I don’t expect that I will ever see the direct effects of GW, while the impact of measures justified by GW are already been felt.

Anglicans have nice service and they are quite liberal.
Catholic and orthodox churches have lots of traditions and rituals if you like this kind of stuff. They also have different available paths that can fit your desired level of participation, from monks to purely cultural christians.

A very probable reason for Lee playing a ko late in his third game is that chinese netizens launched on Weibo a conspiracy theory that Lee has made a secret arrangement with Google not to play any ko, because AlphaGo can’t handle them.
This conspiracy theory started when a 9 dan chinese player said on a broadcast of game 2 that AlphaGo never played a ko despite the fact it has played one in the october games against Fen Hui.
The funniest part is that AlphaGo effortlessly disengaged from Lee’s ko and played a tenuki (a move somewhere else).