HBD group nucleus formed in Portland area

Beginnings are usually small, especially when it comes to high-culture issues that reside at the right of the bell-curve – such as HBD.  Today, three of us HBDers got together and had an informal meeting.  It was very interesting and pleasant and, if you’ll pardon the expression, we were a very diverse group.  HBDers are anything but cookie-cutter people.  By nature, we’re independent thinkers and this is why such meetings will (I hope) never resemble sports rallies.
There is a lot of fear, and even paranoia, among those who believe in HBD and white advocacy.  Given the forces arrayed against us, this is to be understood – but nobody ever made a difference in history by sitting at home trembling from fear of what might happen to him if his views became known.  In my opinion, there is very little risk in going out and meeting new people who share our cause.  The rewards far outweigh the risks.
Therefore I urge any readers, who live in the Portland, Oregon/ Vancouver, Washington area to contact me (rhayat10@gmail.com)  so we can work together locally to make a difference to the best of our ability.

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Oxytocin levels, trust and race

Hbdchick has posted some tables comparing trust levels between people in various nations.  Of course there are many variables that influence how much people trust each other.  It is worthy noting that, as hbdchick has pointed out:

the most trusting peoples in the world (surveyed)? = the usual suspects. germanics, anglos, finnish, french. swedes most naive.
the least trusting peoples in the world (surveyed)? = chinese, romanians, peruvians (what’s up with the peruvians?).
italians = not so trusting.

Coincidentally, I was just reading “What is Your Dangerous Idea?“, where Alun Anderson writes (pg. 79), regarding Oxytocin,:

And the hormone boosts the feeling that you can trust others, which is a key part of intimate relations.  In a recent laboratory “investment game,” many investors would trust all their money to a stranger after a puff of an oxytocin spray.

Whether oxytocin levels vary according to race or ethnicity is a touchy subject.  Iranian writer Fesenjoon wondered the same thing (back in 2010) and wrote:

But what can be said from a scientific point of view? Can we pinpoint some factors or elements, that might bear some direct influence on the status of the country’s social and economic health? Is there a relationship between the degree of poverty in a country, and the amount of how people perceive each other? According to Paul Zak, a neuroeconomist, there is.
According to Zak, one can observe a linear correlation between the amount of Oxytocin in one’s body, and the amount of trust that person feels toward others. And what’s more interesting is that “high-trust countries are by and large rich countries, or certainly fast-growing countries, and poor countries are countries with low trust”. So according to him,“countries in which trust is high have effective governments, they have very tight social structures, people interact very nicely with each other, they don’t have a lot of divisions, and there’s a positive feedback loop. They have higher incomes which further accentuates greater growth. So trust is this kind of great summary measure of a society in which things are working well. And lack of trust therefore is a measure of how things do not work well in society…
What Paul Zak dared not delve into (and yet hints at in some of his lectures) is the question of whether race and ethnicity have anything to do with Oxytocin. Oooo, touchy subject, aint it. What if I were to claim that Iranians (and Middle Easterners in general) have a low propensity overall towards being moral (which is why weve had the most fucked up govt on the planet for 30 yrs, and yet some of us are still defending it, while others simply live with it)? Are we genetically programmed to be so muleaheadedly stubborn and bezehkaar? Or is it a cultural thing? Or is it the sway and influence of a 7th century incompetent faith on the affairs of the state?

Not many black African countries are listed on hbdchick’s tables.  Mali is listed, and it scores fairly high in trust.  This may be because it is a largely homogeneous state that is strongly Islamic.  Its citizens are bound together ethnically and religiously.  It is one of the safest places in black Africa.
I did find one study hinting at low Oxytocin levels among blacks.  In a study called “Ethnicity is associated with alterations in oxytocin relationships to pain sensitivity in women”, we find:

Abstract

It is well established that African Americans (AA) experience greater pain associated with a variety of clinical conditions, and greater pain sensitivity to experimental pain tasks relative to non-Hispanic Whites (W). Notably, African Americans do not show the same relationships involving endogenous pain regulatory mechanisms and pain sensitivity documented in Caucasians, including positive associations between blood pressure, norepinephrine, cortisol and greater pain tolerance.
Objectives. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between plasma oxytocin (OT) and pain sensitivity and to explore the relation of OT to other factors known to influence pain perception.
Design. OT concentration and sensitivity to ischemic, cold pressor, and thermal pain tasks were assessed in African American (n=25) and non-Hispanic White (n=23) pre-menopausal women.
Results. African American women demonstrated significantly lower pain tolerance across tasks compared with Whites (F1,46=6.31, p=0.0156) and also exhibited lower plasma OT levels (AA: 3.90, W: 7.05 pg/mL; p=0.0014). Greater OT levels were correlated with greater tolerance to ischemic pain (r=0.36, p=0.013) and accounted for a marginally significant portion of the ethnic difference in ischemic pain tolerance (B=+0.29, p=0.06). Greater OT was also correlated with greater tolerance of cold pressor pain (r=0.31, p=0.03); however, this association was no longer seen after the variance due to ethnicity was accounted for.
Conclusion. These data suggest that reduced oxytocinergic function may be one of multiple biological factors contributing to the greater sensitivity to experimental ischemic pain, and to the greater burden of some types of clinical pain experienced by African Americans compared with Whites.
Due to taboos surrounding racial science, we are often forced to use medical studies, such as the above, and extrapolate to other areas.  If “African Americans” are low in Oxytocin, then it is very likely that black Africans, in general, are low as well.  It would make no sense to claim that such a deficiency would only impact their pain tolerance, but leave them unaffected in other ways.  There would also be low levels of trust and high levels of psychopathy and crime in societies dominated by black Africans – unless, of course, they are blessed with circumstances such as we find in Mali.
Though there have been a few fleeting articles on the role of Oxytocin (for example, those cited at Amren  here and here) it is clear that more research needs to be done on the subject.
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Ghosts of WWII

When I was barely a teenager, I bought a WWII German helmet at a flea market.  I paid $10 for it and it was in very good condition.  It still had the leather liner and the soldier’s name inscribed on it.  The man who sold it to me told me he had gotten it from the American veteran who had personally killed its original owner.  Unfortunately, the helmet got lost over time.  In Israel, we used it as a charity box.  The tragedy of WWII was so immense, and on so many levels, that it has always held a fascination for me.
I just finished reading “Adolf Hitler” by John Toland.  I found it riveting and I could hardly put it down, though I had to skip over some parts that dealt with the slaughter of Jews.  The book is about 900 pages long so there will be no comprehensive review here.  But there are a few points I wanted to make regarding it.
Firstly I strongly recommend that Irish Savant read it, for he expressed some confusion recently in one of his posts.  I’ll admit to being confused myself.  As a matter of fact, many Germans – and even Nazis – were confused during WWII.  It should be no surprise, to anybody familiar with human nature, that not all Nazis were in favor of “The Final Solution”, that many within the National Socialist Party simply wanted to relocate the Jews, that even many of those who did want to physically eliminate the Jews were determined to do so as painlessly as possible.  There were explicit orders to avoid unnecessary suffering.  As can be imagined, there were many legal grey areas.  Old laws against murder were still in place and Hitler’s ascent to absolute dictator was a gradual one.  By the time he had achieved complete power, more and more people within his own party (and especially generals) recognized that he was growing increasingly mad.
What kind of individual would seek out a position in which he presides over the snuffing out of human life?  Certainly not the most sensitive, moral or upstanding of citizens.  It should therefore come as no surprise that gangs of sadistic sociopaths flocked to concentration camps.  Even if their job was not to murder as many people as possible, they ruled over masses of powerless subjects and there was very little to stop them from doing as they pleased.
One person who stood in their way was S.S. judge Georg Morgen.  Using the German judicial system, he was able to prosecute several war criminals during the war.  If we bear in mind that, even during the height of Nazi power, not all of Germany was a black hole of evil, that not all Germans were complicit in murder – that not even all Nazis were blood-thirsty demons – then we should not be so surprised by phenomena such as Morgen.
The War is, in some respects, not over yet.  Bodies, from the last few months of that horrific conflict, are still being dug up and identified.  Funerals for the dead are still being held.  One of the many tragedies of that era is the lot of the tens of thousands of soldiers, on all sides, who were fully aware that the outcome of the war was already determined.  Those thousands of German soldiers, who died in the outskirts of Berlin in 1945, knew they were dying for a lost cause.  The Americans, and British, who died during the Battle of the Bulge, knew that they were dying for a war that was already won.  Many of the Soviet soldiers must have realized they were dying to protect a regime that was no better than that of the Nazis – and that they, too, were dying in a war whose outcome was already determined.
The soldiers who lost their lives, whether German, Russian, American, English or French, all ended up on the same side in the end.  Most of those soldiers had no choice but to fight.  Refusal was not much of an option.  To quote Germany’s corpse hunter, Erwin Kowalke:

When it comes to reburial, he believes even the smallest details are of paramount importance. “If I overlook something,” he stresses, “no one else can make up for that. It’s gone forever.” And it doesn’t matter to him if the person who he recovers is German or Russian, a member of the SS or the Red Army. “After death, we are all the same,” Kowalke says. “I might not know the poor guy. But God knows and loves them all.”

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America: Protector of small, vulnerable nations

Victor Hanson wrote a thought-provoking, if not very original, column praising the United States for its role in protecting “at risk nations”.  He writes:

So why does the United States take risks in guaranteeing the security of countries such as Israel and Taiwan? Surely the smart money – and most of the world – bets on its richer enemies. The Arab Middle East has oil, hundreds of millions of people and lots of dangerous radical Islamic terrorists. China is more than 1 billion strong, with the fastest-growing economy in the world.
But President Obama should remember that America does not think solely in terms of national advantage. In fact, only the United States seems to have an affinity for protecting tiny, vulnerable countries. In two wars and more than 12 years of no-fly zones in Iraq, America saved the Kurds from a genocidal Saddam Hussein
All of these people – Israelis, anti-communist Chinese, Kurds, Greeks and Armenians – have a few things in common. They have relatively small – and often shrinking – populations, aggressive neighbors, few strong allies, many expatriates and refugees in the United States, and a tragic history of persecution and genocide. Half the world’s Jews were lost to the Holocaust. Had Mao Zedong – the most prolific mass murderer in history – gotten his way, the entire anti-communist Chinese population who fled in terror to Taiwan would have been wiped out. In the early 1920s, nearly a million Greeks perished in Asia Minor – ethnically cleansed by a Turkey that had at one time conquered and occupied Greece for more than 350 years. A million Armenians perished during the breakup of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The stateless Kurds have often been persecuted by Arabs, Iranians and Turks…
Only America is moral and strong enough to protect the world’s historically vulnerable but culturally unique peoples. It would be a shame if we forgot that – either out of desire for profit or because we became fed up with the bother.

As much as we would like to think of America as if it were a benevolent individual, or some sort of super-hero out to protect the little guy, in reality it is more like a vast political machine.  As immigrants stream into its borders, they form well-organized lobbying groups capable of seizing control of certain aspects of this machine.  At the same time, it sometimes does serve America’s strategic interests to protect small nations and peoples.  While Hanson praises America for protecting the Kurds, it is worth noting that such protection has mainly been at the expense of Iraq.  The U.S. has done comparatively little to help the Kurds on the Turkish side of the border because friendship with Turkey is considered more important than human rights for Kurds.  Similarly, there are strategic reasons why it is important for the U.S. to support (at least de-facto) Taiwanese independence from mainland China.
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day (once a day if it is a military clock).  Likewise, even a political machine will do the right thing once in a while.  While there may be some human sentiment involved now and then, my impression is that as the United States grows in population and complexity, this human factor decreases in importance.  In other words, political decisions are increasingly subject to special interests, big business lobbying and foreign pressure.  As the U.S. loses its cultural identity, “right” and “wrong” will mean less and less.
And that brings us to Hanson’s last paragraph.  Yes, it is important to protect “culturally unique peoples”, but it needs to be recognized that one of those peoples is the American People.  If we accept Hanson’s premise that an important part of American culture is to protect the little guy, then it follows that we have a responsibility to protect American culture – if not for itself, then at least for the small, “at risk” nations.
If, and when, the United States deteriorates into a third world cesspool (due to uncontrolled immigration and anti-assimilation policies), then what will become of nations like Taiwan, Armenia and Greece?  Who will they then look up to to protect their interests?  Certainly not Eurabia.

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The presumptuous morality police

A recent editorial by David Brooks, in the New York Times, reveals how arrogant the self-appointed leftist elite morality police can be.  Brooks writes:

Ancestor inequality is not socially acceptable. It is not permissible to go around bragging that your family came over on the Mayflower and that you are descended from generations of Throgmorton-Winthrops who bequeathed a legacy of good breeding and fine manners…
Moral fitness inequality is unacceptable. It is out of bounds to boast of your superior chastity, integrity, honor or honesty. Instead, one must respect the fact that we are all morally equal, though our behavior and ethical tastes may differ…
Church inequality is unacceptable. It would be uncouth to wear a Baptist or Catholic or Jewish jersey to signal that people of your faith are closer to God. It is wrong to look down on other faiths on the grounds that their creeds are erroneous…
Vocation inequality is acceptable so long as you don’t talk about it. Surgeons have more prestige than valet parkers, but we do not acknowledge this. On the other hand, ethnic inequality — believing one group is better than another — is unacceptable (this is one of our culture’s highest achievements).
Dear visitor, we are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other. Have a nice stay.

It never seems to occur to Brooks that, by referring to “our culture’s highest achievements”, and that “we are a democratic, egalitarian people”, he obviously considers our people and culture to be better than others.  Thus, he is violating his own rules.
Brooks somewhat acknowledges that there can be a link between one’s ancestors and one’s manners (as implied in the first paragraph).  But he does not seem to believe that there might be a link between one’s ancestors and one’s culture.  Apparently, culture, ethnicity and values are just random things that a person chooses, without regard to his ancestry.  That Brooks himself happens to be a white American must be merely coincidence in his eyes, and he could just as easily have been born into a New Guinean jungle tribe – but his ideals would remain the same.
If Americans, as he seems to claim, can boast superior integrity, honor or honesty, due to our advanced culture, then how does he reconcile this with his prohibition against “moral fitness”?
One wonders if Brooks views traditional Muslim societies, with their repression of women and non-Muslims, as equal to our own – to the point where it would be unacceptable to look down upon the Muslim faith.  Logic would dictate that he can either support women’s rights (American style) or traditional Muslim societies – but not both.  Though he may not be willing to move to Egypt, he certainly is living in de-Nile.
Would it be too much to expect Brooks to spell out the distinction between “ethnic inequality”, which is verboten, and the inequality between our “democratic, egalitarian people”, which he touts?  Last time I checked, a “people” and an “ethnic group” were fairly close in meaning.  But Brooks does not excel in telling the truth; his specialty seems to be empty rhetoric.

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Drunk on diversity

It is difficult to count the many ways that “diversity” harms our society.  One does not need to use convoluted reasoning, or far-fetched theories, to support the case against “diversity”.  All one needs is common sense.  The Oregonian recently provided us with yet another example of ethnic/racial diversity’s costs:

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court is mulling over the argument that law enforcement officers are obligated to make sure that drunken driving suspects, even if they don’t speak English, understand the consequences of refusing to take a breath or blood test.
It led the state’s chief justice to wonder during a hearing Thursday whether a suspect could be so impaired the refusal couldn’t be used in court.
The appeal involves Jose L. Nunez Cabanilla, arrested in 2008 near Nyssa, south of Ontario in Eastern Oregon, the Salem Statesman Journal reported (http://stjr.nl/sNGRhv).
He refused to take a breath test, a fact the trial judge ruled could be used as evidence during the drunken driving trial.
Appealing the conviction, Deputy Public Defender Zachary Mazer argued that the warning given to the Spanish speaker was said in English, and Cabanilla didn’t understand it.
Unless the judge could find that the defendant understood the consequences, the refusal shouldn’t have been used in court, he said.

Somebody had the nerve to bring up the obvious:

At oral arguments, Chief Justice Paul De Muniz asked the difference between someone who didn’t understand the warning because it was in a different language and someone too intoxicated to understand it at all.
“So the drunker you are, then you can deny the state the evidence?” he asked.

The constitutionality of requiring drivers to submit to roadside sobriety tests aside, one can easily see how “diversity” might cost lives the moment Spanish speakers realize they will not be held accountable for putting the rest of us at risk.  What if the driver speaks only an obscure tribal language?  Must the police have expert linguists on hand at all times?  The demands of “diversity” ultimately make a mockery of our entire system of government and society.
Personally, I don’t care if Spanish speaking drivers understand the implications of their refusal to undergo a breath test.  All they need to understand is to learn English or go back to wherever they came from – preferably the latter.

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A new way to show your appreciation for good posts

Thanks to eugenicist for introducing me to a new, user-friendly, way to show your support to authors of posts that you enjoy.  It’s called tip the web, and it allows you to contribute as little as five cents to the authors of posts that you enjoy.  Unlike paypal, tip the web does not take a commission from each contribution.
I’ve been working a lot lately but, as soon as I’ve got more time, I plan to start using this great service.  I did already sign add this blog, so the rest of y’all can already tip me if you wish.

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Milwaukee's black infant mortality problem

The City of Milwaukee is concerned about babies dying:

The Journal Sentinel said Milwaukee had an “infant mortality crisis.” Milwaukee’s infant mortality rate in 2009 was 10.4 deaths for every 1,000 live births, according to the city’s health department. As noteworthy as this overall rate is the racial breakdown: For white babies, the rate was 5.4; for blacks, 14.1, the JS said.

The city has set a goal of reducing the infant mortality rate for blacks by 15 percent, and the overall rate by 10 percent by 2017, the JS said.

One wonders, if the white and black infant mortality rates were equal, would there be quite as much concern?
It would seem that race affects infant mortality more than socio-economic status.  One study came up with the following graph:

Of course, high infant mortality among American blacks is not confined to Milwaukee.  It is the norm all over America.  Some people, noting this, try to explain the racial disparity as a byproduct of racial discrimination.  Ziba Kashef writes:

According to Dr. Michael Lu, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecologyand public health at UCLA, researchers have found that even when they control for such varied factors as poverty, housing, employment, medical risk, abuse, social support and so on, 90 percent of the differences in birth weight between black and white moms remains unaccounted for. “Most studies have looked at black-white differences during pregnancy, for example, differences in prenatal careutilization or maternal behavior,” he says. “What we’re finding is that these differences really explain very little of the disparities in birth outcomes.”
Even genetics fail to provide answers. To test the hypothesis, Dr. James W. Collins, Jr., associate professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School, compared birth outcomes of African American and Africa-born mothers in Illinois over a 15-year period. He assumed if there was something about African genes that caused poor birth outcomes, the statistics for African-born women might actually be worse. But Collins and his colleagues found that the babies of African-born women had birth weights similar to those of white American women and higher than those of black American women…
If the cause is not a shared gene, perhaps it’s a shared experience. For instance, the immune system begins to develop in utero and matures over time. During certain critical periods of development, Dr. Lu points out, the immune system can be adversely affected by certain experiences and exposures, such as repeated infections or undue stress. These exposures may pattern the immune system in a particular way that sets the stage for increased risk to poor health and poor birth outcomes. A mother with less than optimal immune response may give birth to a baby with less than optimal immune response and so on.
Chronic emotional stress results from many factors, including physically demanding jobs and a lack of control in the workplace, single parenthood, and financial worries–all problems experienced disproportionately by women of color. Discrimination is also a documented source of harmful stress. One study found that women who gave birth to very low birth weight babies were more likely to have experienced racial discrimination than women who had normal weight babies.

The above theory is now the pet theory within the establishment.  Yes, stress can cause health problems.  For example, in one experiment, middle-aged men were locked in a room for weeks at a time while voices were played over loudspeakers, over and over again, “Your heart is failing.  You’re going to DIE from a heart attack!  You’re going to DIE!”  Sure enough, those men died of heart attacks*.
Perhaps the media, schools, scientists and corporations should stop screaming at black women, “You’re victims of racism.  You’re suffering because of racism!  You’re all going to DIE because of racism!“.  I’d be stressed out too if they did that to me.
But back to the genetic factor.  I wonder if the “Africa-born mothers in Illinois” were from the same region in Africa where most American blacks hail from.  Not all Africans are the same; Africa is a very diverse continent.  Another thing to consider is that the white admixture in American blacks might be causing the problems.  Perhaps premature, and underweight, babies are a byproduct of hybridization.  In any case, it does not appear as if the genetic possibilities were thoroughly examined.
*Fictitious.

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Poverty around the world

Each of us has his burden to carry, his own bundle of woes to endure through his life.  One of the benefits of travel is that we are reminded that there are always those worse off, materially, than ourselves.  Following is a selection of images, focusing on poverty, that I have collected over the years.  I’ll start with a family in China, which faced their dire circumstances admirably:

They owned one book, The Sayings of Confucius, and little else.  They refused any donations.

The last Jews of Medzibuzh, Ukraine.  They were not born in Medzibuzh but had arrived after the war.  My paternal grandfather was born in Medzibuzh.  This couple expected donations from visitors and they were not nearly as poor as the Chinese family above, but their house would be considered a hovel by Western standards.  Actually there are still many Jews in Medzibuzh, but they are in the cemeteries:

My search for ancestors was futile since they didn’t use family names until very recently.  The tombstones only say “so-and-so the son/daughter of so-and-so” and the date of death.

This is inside a house in Luxor, Egypt.  Aside from this livestock area, the entire extended family lived in one room.  They had no privacy whatsoever.

Here are members of the family outside their home.  Basically, I wandered the streets, dressed in a galabiyah – but obviously a tourist because of my camera – and accepted invitations for tea.  Of course I gave them a donation.

Beggar kids in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Could you imagine eking out a living selling bananas in Antananarivo?

That mattress is somebody’s home in Antananarivo.

Poverty is the norm in most of the world.  Affluence, such as most of us have in America, is the exception.  We would do well to serve as a model for the rest of the world, not a mecca.

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A "slum" is not a place, it is people

Many people were left scratching their heads after reading the latest news about Brazilian police “taking over Rio’s biggest slum“.  Since only a handful of arrests were made, and the vast majority of criminals simply dispersed, doesn’t this action simply spread the problem out to different areas?
Readers correctly pointed out that the goal was not so much to diminish crime as to facilitate the making of profits for the well connected:

It was the most ambitious operation yet in an effort to increase security before Rio hosts the final matches of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Officials are counting on those events to signal Brazil’s arrival as a global economic, political and cultural power.

Powerful interests are at work here, and I get the impression that the welfare of the inhabitants of Rocinha is not the primary consideration.  If it were, authorities would have taken over the slum long ago instead of waiting for the approach of the above-mentioned sporting events.
In the above article we see a common propaganda tactic:  The implication that nations, neighborhoods and slums are defined by space.  But it is not the space they occupy that gives them their identity, rather it is the people who inhabit that space.  Thus, the proclamation that “police have taken over a slum” means little for the long term.  The slum goes wherever slum-people go.  The only way to get rid of a slum is to get rid of the slum-people – or to somehow transform them.  The establishment left, whether in the U.S. or Brazil, loves to redistribute people and imagine that it has thereby solved problems.   In most cases, the problems end up getting even worse.  It is better to allow criminals to congregate in small areas so that most of their victims will be other criminals.  Spreading them out increases the body count among the innocent.
But many in the establishment left understand the arbitrariness of space.  This is why they advocate for open borders.  Of course, in doing so, they ignore the importance of things such as race, ethnic group and culture.  The establishment left will either ignore, or emphasize, location depending on whatever suits its purposes.

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