http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/tags.php?tag=charities Just another bbPress community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 08:09:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/search.php http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-118 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:57:27 +0000 admin 118@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Dear BADACA,<br /> I've had enough of reading the biased reporting in every newspaper,about every protest. So (after no response to my polite email complaints), I'm starting a petition against the guardian. I reckon<br /> this should create some controversy/coverage if we get enough signatures (i.e. lefties protesting *against* the guardian - wtf?).</p> <p>If possible, please could you publicise this on your website/on any email lists? I'd be extremely grateful!</p> <p>Link: &lt;<a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/guardiancutsapology/&#038;gt" rel="nofollow">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/guardiancutsapology/&#038;gt</a>;</p> <p>Love, peace and all that! :-),<br /> Tim </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-117 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:21:29 +0000 admin 117@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Hey everyone,</p> <p>Here's a page where you can vote for a new 38degrees petition calling for<br /> the F&amp;M aggravated tresspass charges to be dropped.</p> <p><a href="http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/1666111-petition-calling-for-the-dropping-of-charges-of-ag" rel="nofollow">http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/1666111-petition-calling-for-the-dropping-of-charges-of-ag</a></p> <p>Please sign it so we can help get this petition onto the 38degrees site<br /> properly.</p> <p>Also, here's the blog the Fortnum145 (138?) have set up:</p> <p><a href="http://fortnum145.org/" rel="nofollow">http://fortnum145.org/</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-114 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:01:37 +0000 admin 114@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Dear Sir or Madam,<br /> You may be interested in this article about David Cameron's cuts and their link to his racist, and in the case of the Pioneer Fund, and also his key adviser, Phillip Blond, fascist connections, which I sending to every anti-cuts group I can find in the UK, because it is important for people to properly understand the ideological origins of Cameron's anti-cuts thinking, partly as it will make them more angry when they find out what they are.</p> <p>David Cameron says that he is running a "liberal Conservative" government, but the truth is very different, as I show in great detail. Before the Tories lost the 2005 election, which was of course their third defeat in a row, Cameron was certainly not a "liberal Conservative", and the ideological origins of his cuts thinking prove that his sudden liberal makeover after that election defeat was purely cosmetic. </p> <p>If you are interested in posting this article on your site, please can you send me the link. </p> <p> Thanks and best wishes, Roddy</p> <p>DAVID CAMERON'S SPENDING CUTS AND THE RACIST "BELL CURVE"</p> <p>David Cameron tells us that he is a "liberal Conservative", but as I will show in this article, his spending cuts attack on the welfare state, which disproportionately affects racial minorities and women, was inspired by the far right racist and sexist American writer Charles Murray, who wrote the 1994 book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" (Simon and Schuster, New York), which used racist pseudoscience "research" funded by the fascist Pioneer Fund, who had links to the Third Reich, to imply that black and Hispanic people are poorer than white people because they are genetically less intelligent than them, and that black and Hispanic immigration, and relatively high black and Hispanic birth rates, are lowering the intelligence level of the American public.</p> <p>That is why Daniel Finkelstein, who is one of George Osborne's "closest confidants" according to the May 12, 2005 "Evening Standard" article "The irresistible rise of Boy George", and who was the Director of the Conservative Research Department from 1995 to 1997, an adviser to William Hague from 1997 to 2001, and then a secretary to the Conservative shadow cabinet, wrote in this "Times" article that, "Mr Cameron's rather too sweeping attacks on big government have their roots in the neoconservative critique of welfare policy by American writers such as Charles Murray and Gertrude Himmelfarb. They argued that the perverse incentives of the welfare state undermined responsibility (another favourite Cameron word). And these ideas were in currency during the Major Government. As was the emphasis on marriage [which is why Murray allegedly inspired John Major's Back to Basics campaign against single mothers, whose benefit payments were cut after they had been demonised]":</p> <p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article6873422.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article6873422.ece</a></p> <p>Instead of using government money to stimulate the economy by creating jobs, which this incompetent, job cutting Conservative led government is failing to do, it is distracting people's attention from its incompetence by demonising the unemployed, who are far more numerous than job vacancies, via its friends in the right wing press.</p> <p>There is certainly plenty of money available to create such jobs, as even without, for example, introducing a land tax on large landowners, or imposing extra tax on unpopular privatised utilities, a Robin Hood tax on unpopular bankers and speculators could raise huge amounts of money.</p> <p>Just recently, to cite “The Guardian” article “MEPs vote for Robin Hood tax as banks face stress tests”, “…European lawmakers voted yesterday for a 200 bn euro (£172 bn) a year financial transactions tax to be slapped on the [banking] sector…The parliament backed a tax that would be levied at 0.05% on financial transactions, which would raise up to 200 bn euros.”</p> <p>But as long ago as 2007, when there was money to create jobs than there is now, this "Spectator" article showed that David Cameron was going to start American style welfare state spending cuts ("Bring 'the Wisconsin welfare revolution' to Britain"), which of course proves that Cameron is lying about his cuts being a response to the budget deficits which the recession, rising unemployment, and low, or non-existent taxes on big business and wealthy people have created:</p> <p><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/313841/cameron-means-business-on-welfare-the-tories-are-the-radicals-again.thtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/313841/cameron-means-business-on-welfare-the-tories-are-the-radicals-again.thtml</a></p> <p>As this "New Statesman" article, "Thumbs up for the bright, white folks" reveals, Charles Murray was a consultant to Wisconsin's "W-2" welfare cuts, which David Cameron was already intending to bring to Britain in 2007:</p> <p><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019" rel="nofollow">http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019</a></p> <p>That article also reveals the predictable results of Wisconsin's cuts, including cuts in benefits paid to single parents and their children: in the first year, there was a 17.6% rise in child mortality in Milwaukee, the biggest city in Wisconsin, and a 37% rise in black child mortality.</p> <p>Another article about W-2, "Why It Failed", which was published in the "Milwaukee Magazine", explains that it has led to increased homelessness, to larger numbers of people turning to "food pantries" to feed themselves, and to more people not being given access to healthcare.</p> <p>That article, which you can read here, also shows where David Cameron borrowed his "broken Britain" term from:</p> <p><a href="http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/endgame/default.asp?NewMessageID=18578" rel="nofollow">http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/endgame/default.asp?NewMessageID=18578</a></p> <p>This "Guardian" article about David Cameron aping American politicians, has a link to another "Guardian" article about how even Barack Obama's healthcare reforms will not provide all Americans with proper healthcare, and if Obama had not been elected, the American healthcare situation would of course have been far worse:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/07/david-cameron-political-speeches" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/07/david-cameron-political-speeches</a></p> <p>The fact that David Cameron believes in the Republican W-2 welfare state model, should be understood by anyone who is concerned about what Conservative privatisation will do to the NHS. While it is true that Margaret Thatcher halving the amount of cleaning in now not properly cleaned, and sometimes filthy NHS hospitals, led to the UK having such a bad MRSA infection rate, that Swedish hospitals have special isolation rooms to treat people who they find out have been treated in British NHS hospitals, the NHS is still far better than Barack Obama's healthcare system, and far, far better than Republican healthcare.</p> <p>Michael Moore's "Sicko" film portrayed the NHS as wonderful, which compared to the American healthcare system it is, but in Sweden, it is viewed very differently. </p> <p>This webpage shows how much lower the drug resistant MRSA infection rate is in Swedish hospitals compared to NHS ones:</p> <p><a href="http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/hospitaltreatment/treatment-abroad/mrsa-europe/" rel="nofollow">http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/hospitaltreatment/treatment-abroad/mrsa-europe/</a></p> <p>There is of course nothing unusual about David Cameron aping American politicians, as Conservative politicians usually look to the Republicans for their latest very shallow ideas, despite the fact that hunger and homelessness continue to rise in that weak welfare state country. This 2011 press release by the Mayors of American cities discussed the continuing rise in hunger and homelessness in the US:</p> <p><a href="http://www.citymayors.com/features/uscity_poverty.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.citymayors.com/features/uscity_poverty.html</a></p> <p>There is nothing new about that trend. Even this 2004 article on the website of the USA's far right, free market fundamentalist Heritage Foundation think tank admits that hunger and homelessness have gone up every year since the Mayors of American cities began issuing an annual press release on that subject in 1986, though Heritage predictably claim that the increases have been exaggerated: </p> <p><a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/12/mayors-claims-of-growing-hunger-are-once-again-exaggerated" rel="nofollow">http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/12/mayors-claims-of-growing-hunger-are-once-again-exaggerated</a></p> <p>I said "predictably", as later on in this article, I will discuss Heritage's employment of the Pioneer Fund financed Roger Pearson, who set up the fascist Northern League (which is not to be confused with a far right Italian political party that is part of Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government) with, amongst other people, 2001 UKIP candidate for Parliament Alistair Harper.</p> <p>On page 14, this article by then Labour MEP Richard Corbett mentions Harper co-founding the Northern League (and discusses the many other UKIP connections to fascist organisations and Holocaust denial, and their predictable, Charles Murray type attitude to the welfare state):</p> <p><a href="http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/theres-something-about-ukip.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/theres-something-about-ukip.pdf</a></p> <p>At least when the Labour Party's main foreign role model was Sweden, there was a good chance that the damage which Conservative governments do to the welfare state could be repaired, but once the Labour Party was taken over by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who both look to the US for their ideas, a Conservative government created problem like unhygienic NHS hospitals was ever likely not to be put right.</p> <p>Sweden is not the best foreign role model in the world, because Denmark tends to win world's happiest country polls, as ""The Times" Guide to the Peoples of Europe" book pointed out, because Holland beat Denmark in a happiest country in the EU survey, and because Dutch schoolchildren beat Danish schoolchildren in the 19 European nations and the US and Canada 2007 UNICEF child happiness survey (British schoolchildren came bottom, behind even 20th placed American schoolchildren), but any properly informed politician should be aware that Sweden and the other East Scandinavian countries, which, with Holland, were rated by the Thatcherite magazine "The Economist" as the world's 5 most financially egalitarian nations, are better foreign role models than the US.</p> <p>As you would expect, the East Scandinavian countries were clustered together under Holland in the child happiness survey (Sweden in 2nd place, Denmark in 3rd, Finland in 4th, and Norway in 7th, under Spain and Switzerland).</p> <p>This BBC News story analyses the survey :</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6360517.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6360517.stm</a> </p> <p>This second analysis of the survey, in "The Guardian", found that British schoolchildren were less likely than schoolchildren in other countries to say that their peers were "kind and helpful", as you would expect, because unhappy children are unkind and unhelpful, which is why bullying and name calling are notoriously rampant in British schools, why those unhappy bullies and name callers go on to behave in the same way in their workplaces, in the street, etc., and why they then mistreat their children and make them unhappy bullies and name callers:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/feb/14/childrensservices.politics" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/feb/14/childrensservices.politics</a></p> <p>Helen Mirren complained in a French interview about the nastiness of the British on the Internet, but the rich world's unhappiest country is ever likely to be full of unhappy people who feel like posting nasty comments, blog posts, etc. online.</p> <p>Like the bullying and name calling in British schools, workplaces, etc., that problem will only get worse while British politics is dominated by people who believe that the extremely dysfunctional American society, with its notoriously high levels of serial killing, violent crime in general, hard drug abuse, homelessness, hunger, etc. has any useful right wing political ideas which should be copied on this side of the Atlantic.</p> <p>This "Observer" article about one British politician who is dumb enough to think that the US has any useful right wing political ideas which should be copied in Britain, David Cameron, "How Britain's new welfare state was born in the USA", discusses the fact that American politicians' cuts to that country's very weak welfare state, were backed by Charles Murray, and I will show in a forthcoming article, "George W. Bush's spending cuts and the racist "Bell Curve"", that Murray's based on fascist "research" "Bell Curve" directly inspired those politicians to undertake those cuts, which then inspired David Cameron to make the same cuts:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/07/britain-welfare-state-born-usa" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/07/britain-welfare-state-born-usa</a></p> <p>David Miliband was thus right to say in this speech, which you can read on his website: "But the Tories’ problem is that their instinct is the oldest deception in politics: that government just hurts the little guy. In essence it is an extension of Charles Murray’s dependency culture thesis about the welfare state from the 1980s, and applying to all functions of government not just welfare.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.davidmiliband.info/speeches/speeches_010_02.htma" rel="nofollow">http://www.davidmiliband.info/speeches/speeches_010_02.htma</a></p> <p>As I will show in this article, Charles Murray has worked for big business funded think tanks, so as he who pays the piper calls the tune, it is hardly surprising that, like a grovelling minion at the court of a Mediaeval royal family, Murray (a) praises (in "the Bell Curve") the intelligence of the big business CEO's who fund his large annual American Enterprise Institute salary, and (b) wants to stop government help to "the little guy", as stopping that help will let big business pay even less tax than it does already, because of tax havens, and a global tax system which is increasingly making "the little guy" pay a bigger proportion of the tax bill so big business can pay less corporation tax, and so its wealthy owners can pay even less tax than they also do already, because of tax havens (most of which are British colonies, like the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, British Crown Dependencies, like the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, or British Commonwealth countries, like the Bahamas and Grenada), and because of arrangements like Britain's notorious "non-dom" tax loophole for the super rich.</p> <p>Daniel Finkelstein's article proves that Charles Murray's racist and sexist anti-welfare state ideas have been "in currency" since John Major's time, so it is no surprise that Major's Minister for Social Security, Peter Lilley, who reduced payments to single mothers after they had been demonised, expresses his admiration for Charles Murray, and criticises a cornerstone of the welfare state (the NHS) in this review of British Conservative journalist James Bartholomew's pro-scrapping the welfare state book, "The Welfare State We're In" (Politico's Publishing, London, 2004), which cites a Charles Murray book in its small "Select bibliography", and which describes Murray as "a first class brain":</p> <p><a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/03/review_by_peter.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/03/review_by_peter.php</a></p> <p>So, in this March 11, 1995 "Racial scapegoats" letter to "The Independent", which attacked Charles Murray's racist statements about lower black IQ levels in his "How I would tackle the new rabble" interview with that newspaper, the late black Labour MP Bernie Grant, and Linda Bellos of the Africa Reparations Movement, were thus also right to warn that Murray's hostility towards single parents would influence Peter Lilley:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letter-racial-scapegoats-1610931.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letter-racial-scapegoats-1610931.html</a></p> <p>Bernie Grant and Linda Bellos also correctly pointed out their letter, that Charles Murray's racist ideas were, "an old neo-Malthusian and eugenicist argument that is as problematic now as it ever was."</p> <p>The fact that Charles Murray's ideas, which have led to a sharp increase in child mortality in Wisconsin, are part of the wipe out certain types of people eugenics tradition, which was discredited by the Third Reich's enthusiasm for eugenics, is not hard to prove, because the fascist Pioneer Fund has been involved in the American eugenics movement since the Fund was founded in 1937 by eugenicists like Harry Laughlin and Frederick Osborn.</p> <p>Moreover, as this Institute for the Study of Academic Racism webpage points out, the Fund gave a grant to Michael Levin, a New York professor who had Charles Murray type views, as he, "argued that black population growth must be slowed by ending public assistance [social security].":</p> <p><a href="http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/forbes.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/forbes.htm</a></p> <p>I will say a lot more about the fascist eugenicist ideas of the Pioneer Fund which inspired Charles Murray's "Bell Curve" book in this article.</p> <p>The fact that Murray (and Gertrude Himmelfarb) are neo-Malthusians is also easy to prove.</p> <p>In his 1798 "An Essay on the Principle of Population" (Oxford World Classics, Oxford, 2008), Thomas Malthus argued for scrapping the rudimentary social security of his time, the Poor Laws. (pp.39-45)</p> <p>Malthus also shared another of Charles Murray's opinions: contempt for poorer people, who Murray calls "the new rabble". Hence the title of this "Independent" interview which Bernie Grant's letter was a reply to, "How I would tackle the new rabble":</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html</a></p> <p>Thomas Malthus obviously felt contempt for poorer people, as he believed that it was wrong to help them, and that they should be forced to live at a subsistence level, as this "Victorian Web" academic article about Malthus' "Essay on Population" explains:</p> <p><a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/essay.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/essay.html</a></p> <p>Getrude Himmelfarb's neo-Malthusian views are revealed by this webpage, which lists some of the books that she has edited, including a 1960 edition of Thomas Malthus' "Essays on Population":</p> <p><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/himmelfarb-gertrude" rel="nofollow">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/himmelfarb-gertrude</a></p> <p>Bernie Grant and Linda Bellos were also of course right to say in their "Racial scapegoats" letter, that, "Murray is merely a new voice of the hard right who wish to scapegoat Africans both in Africa and the "Diaspora". This may, they think, divert attention and unrest among white working class people if black people can be seen to be the problem."</p> <p>As Daniel Finkelstein's article proves, Charles Murray's racist and sexist influence on the Conservative Party did not stop after Peter Lilley lost his job, which is why a Conservative think tank which David Cameron and his Work and Pensions Secretary, Chris Grayling, are associated with, the Centre for Policy Studies, invited the co-author of "The Bell Curve", the late Richard Herrnstein, to give a speech to them, as this "Independent" article reveals:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/britain-on-the-couch-breaking-out-of-the-mould-1153487.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/britain-on-the-couch-breaking-out-of-the-mould-1153487.html</a></p> <p>This article from the anti-fascist magazine "Searchlight", which the late famous Nazi war criminal hunter Simon Wiesenthal praised, and which all 3 of the major parties have asked for advice on how to defeat the BNP in elections, reveals that the late Alfred Sherman, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher who was the co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies, wrote a 2001 article for a now defunct fascist magazine called "Right Now!", which was edited by Derek Turner, who had been the leader of an Irish fascist group, the Social Action Initiative, and also reveals that Sherman gave an interview to "Right Now!" in 1997 in which he said that, "they [the Conservatives] have betrayed the nation, by allowing mass immigration of totally alien Third World peoples...":</p> <p><a href="http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&#038;story=110" rel="nofollow">http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&#038;story=110</a></p> <p>This Institute for the Study of Academic Racism webpage reveals that Simon Wiesenthal thought "Searchlight" was the best English language magazine of its kind on the planet:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ferris.edu/isar/related-sites.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ferris.edu/isar/related-sites.htm</a></p> <p>"Right Now!" editor Derek Turner has described himself as a "neighbourhood Nazi", as this "Independent" article about the magazine reveals, and its 50th issue featured an interview with Nick Griffin, so given those facts, and Turner's Social Action Initiative past, it is not unfair to describe "Right Now!" as "fascist", despite the fact that, as this "Independent" article shows, a Conservative MP was a patron of the magazine:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-magazine-run-by-a-neighbourhood-nazi-605796.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-magazine-run-by-a-neighbourhood-nazi-605796.html</a></p> <p>That article also mentions "Right Now!"'s support for eugenics, which it discussed in an article titled "The Conservative Case for a New Eugenics". According to "The Independent", "The piece argued that "the Right should endorse measures to improve human traits through genetic selection". It suggested that welfare recipients should be put on the Pill and repeat offenders should "forfeit reproductive rights"".</p> <p>Alfred Sherman was a supporter of Slobodan Milosevic's genocidal war in Bosnia, as "Guardian" journalist Francis Wheen explained in this article:</p> <p>"During the Bosnian war Sir Alfred served as a consultant to Karadzic and the murderous Ratko Mladic. 'I was advising them but they wouldn't take my advice,' he told me sadly in 1996. 'I wanted them to go on the offensive.' This was also the reason for his falling-out with Thatcher, whom he came to regard as a wishy-washy liberal. Still, it seems that Sherman has at last found a dictator stern enough to win his respect: he flew into Belgrade yesterday to express his 'solidarity' with Slobodan Milosevic.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/apr/28/features11.g2" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/apr/28/features11.g2</a></p> <p>As this Centre for Policy Studies webpage reveals, David Cameron gave a speech to honour the CPS, 35 years after it was founded by the pro-"Right Now!", pro-Milosevic's genocidal war Alfred Sherman:</p> <p><a href="http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/David_Cameron_s_Speech_at_the_Centre_for_Policy_Studies_35th_Anniversary_Party_.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/David_Cameron_s_Speech_at_the_Centre_for_Policy_Studies_35th_Anniversary_Party_.html</a></p> <p>Another CPS webpage reveals that Chris Grayling has given a speech to that organisation:</p> <p><a href="http://www.cps.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=cpsarticle&#038;id=208&#038;Itemid=17" rel="nofollow">http://www.cps.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=cpsarticle&#038;id=208&#038;Itemid=17</a></p> <p>So not surprisingly, David Cameron allegedly secretly plans to scrap all social security benefits, according to Lord Strathclyde, the Conservative leader in the House of Lords, as a "Daily Telegraph" article, "Tory peer's wife tells wife: I'm sorry" (February 7, 2011, p.10), which is not online explains:</p> <p>"...Miss Cunningham, 48, claimed that [her lover] Lord Strathclyde told her the Government was planning to get rid of "the whole lot" of benefits..."</p> <p>If David Cameron is secretly planning to scrap all social security benefits as part of his W-2 style attack on the poor, and particularly on the black and Asian poor, who are much more likely to be unemployed than white Britons, because most employers are Conservatives, or UKIP or BNP supporters, and thus often racist, we could do with a modern successor to Jonathon Swift, the 17th to 18th Centuries Irish satirist and cleric, who is most famous for writing "Gulliver's Travels", but who also wrote a famous 1729 satire of the cruelty of the British elite, "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public", in which he suggested that the Irish poor should sell their children to the rich so they could be eaten.</p> <p>Swift was, incidentally, not trying to trivialise the suffering of the Irish poor by writing a satire rather than a serious book about their treatment by the British elite, as someone once described "A Modest Proposal" to me as the angriest book he had ever read.</p> <p>The British elite were later to distinguish themselves by making a modest contribution to killing off Irish children during the Irish potato famine of 1845 to 1852, when they exported crops from Ireland under armed guard so they could fetch a better price abroad, while starving Irish families dug their own graves and prepared to die, as they did in huge numbers (the famine possibly killed over a million of Ireland's just over 8 million people).</p> <p>As this historical website points out, even the Royal Navy was drafted in to guard boats laden with oats and grain from starving Irish peasants:</p> <p><a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm</a></p> <p>As I will prove again and again in this article, cold hearted and mean minded attitudes to poor people, for example opposition to welfare states, which need to be improved, not weakened or scrapped, as there are, for example, huge numbers of homeless people in Britain, and large numbers of roofless people, go hand in hand with cold hearted and mean minded racist attitudes to racial minorities ("The Bell Curve" is a perfect example of that fact), so it is not surprising that some of the most anti-racist British and American people of the Irish potato famine era, the Quakers, who, for 2 centuries were the biggest group in the white movement to abolish slavery in the British Empire and the US, raised a lot of money to feed victims of the Irish famine (£200,000, which is about £30 million in today's money), and set up soup kitchens around Ireland.</p> <p>Britain's homeless and roofless people are partly the result of not enough free detox and counselling help being given to alcoholics and hard drug addicts, who can end up spending their housing benefit on their addictions and getting evicted, and partly the result of the kind of policies that Charles Murray advocates: 32 years of social security cuts (for example, Dutch homelessness rocketed from roughly 10,000 people to roughly 80,000 people after Jan Peter Balkenende's coalition copied Margaret Thatcher's first social security cut, which stopped people being given benefit equal to most of their salary for the first 6 months of unemployment); 32 years of the social security system being made more and more authoritarian, which has led to more and more people having their benefits stopped; and Margaret Thatcher making housing benefit harder to get by making it a local council rather than DSS responsibility, which led to claims taking far longer to process, as local councils have to wait sometimes months for the DSS to confirm that a person is receiving a benefit, if that person does not get a letter from the DSS to take to their council which says that they are. That problem alone caused a huge rise in homelessness, as landlords became unwilling to wait months for their money, and either evicted people, or started putting "No DSS" on their adverts, to stop the unemployed renting their homes in the first place.</p> <p>As this University College Cork historical webpage points out, Lord Trevelyan, the 1840-1859 Assistant Secretary in the British Treasury Office who was in charge of dealing with the famine, thought very differently to the Quakers, as he believed that "The Great Hunger", as the famine is sometimes known in Ireland, was "a mechanism for reducing surplus population":</p> <p><a href="http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Charles_Edward_Trevelyan" rel="nofollow">http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Charles_Edward_Trevelyan</a></p> <p>As that webpage also points out, Lord Trevelyan blamed the character of Ireland's famine stricken people, the "green wogs" of the Northern Irish band Stiff Little Fingers' "White Noise" song about British racism, for their predicament, which makes him sound like Charles Murray, the big business spokesman who talks like a "Wall Street Journal" editorial, as he blames the poor ("the new rabble") for their predicament, not the people who are really to blame for the predicament of the poor: governments who are too incompetent to understand that as no economic system can guarantee jobs to everyone who needs them, it is an essential function of government to permanently guarantee people state funded living wage jobs, which ensures that people can lead dignified lives, and prevents recessions by ensuring that people always have money to spend (Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, who came 3rd behind George W. Bush and Al Gore in the 2000 US election, argued for guaranteeing people living wage jobs doing community work, so there is nothing new about my suggestion); employers who pay low wages, which ensures that relatively low amounts of money circulate in working class areas, which, as a result, have fewer job opportunities, and who move jobs to the cheapest labour country they can find, which can devastate towns based around one corporation, as Michael Moore's film "Roger and Me", which is about what happened to Flint, Michigan when General Motors moved jobs abroad showed; tax evasion by corporations and wealthy people; and the brutalising intergenerational cultural effects of slavery, hunger, poverty, poor housing, ugly urban environments, racism, pleasure denied lives, etc..</p> <p>As you would expect, "The Wall Street Journal" responded to the criticism of big business spokesman Charles Murray's "The Bell Curve", by printing a full page statement in support of the kind of ideas it expressed which was signed by various professors.</p> <p>You can read the statement here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1994WSJmainstream.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1994WSJmainstream.pdf</a></p> <p>Various sources link professors who signed the statement to the fascist Pioneer Fund.</p> <p>This Pioneer Fund webpage admits that the Fund gave grants to Hans Eysenck, Arthur Jensen, J. Philippe Rushton, and Thomas Bouchard:</p> <p><a href="http://www.pioneerfund.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pioneerfund.org/</a></p> <p>This article from the "Academic Questions" journal, reveals that Bouchard, Jensen, Linda Gottfredson, Robert Gordon, Garrett Hardin, Seymour Itzkoff, and Richard Lynn have all been given Pioneer Fund grants:</p> <p><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/53t368213r4168mh/" rel="nofollow">http://www.springerlink.com/content/53t368213r4168mh/</a></p> <p>This reprint of a Canadian newspaper article on the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism website, states that Jensen, Lynn, Eysenck, and Rushton have been given Pioneer grants, and that Rushton's "research" is cited on fascist websites:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/rushton.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/rushton.htm</a></p> <p>This article on the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American civil rights law firm who monitor hate groups like the Pioneer Fund, reveals that Eysenck, Gordon, Gottfredson, Itzkoff, Jensen, Lynn, Rushton, and R. Travis Osborne have been given Pioneer money:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund</a></p> <p>Finally, this second Southern Poverty Law Center article reveals that another professor who signed the "Wall Street Journal" statement, the late Raymond Cattell, believed in the "phasing out" of what he saw as inferior cultures:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,0" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,0</a></p> <p>Charles Murray is the origin of the "dependency culture" phrase which anti-welfare state right wing politicians use, so it is no surprise that Lord Trevelyan opposed efforts to feed the starving Irish on the grounds that they would become "habitually dependent" on the British Government, as this historical website points out:</p> <p><a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm</a></p> <p>Not surprisingly, like many British politicians of the 19th Century, Trevelyan was a free market fundamentalist supporter of Thomas Malthus, whose ideas are one of the key sources of the "scientific" racism tradition that the also pro-free market fundamentalist ideology Charles Murray is the most prominent modern exponent of, which is why Allan Chase wrote a book called "The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism" (Knopf, New York, 1977).</p> <p>Also not surprisingly, the original draft of the bible of free market fundamentalist thought, "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, argued that the free market regulates itself by the poor starving to death, as they did in Ireland, when the free market meant that the rich were free to export food they could get a better price for abroad, and the Irish poor were free to die, so, as you would expect, the free market fundamentalist Adam Smith Institute echoed Charles Murray and Lord Trevelyan by praising David Cameron's attack on the welfare state for "reducing people's dependency on benefits", and also argue for scrapping the minimum wage, as this BBC News story reveals:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12486158" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12486158</a></p> <p>So does the Adam Smith Institute pleasing David Cameron, whose anti-welfare state ideas derive from the neo-Malthusian writers Charles Murray and Gertrude Himmelfarb, who, in Murray's case, bases his ideas partly on "research" funded by the fascist Pioneer Fund, really want to copy Murray's scrap all social security benefits idea?</p> <p>As I have said, I will prove again and again in this article that cold hearted and mean minded racism, and the cold hearted and mean minded attitudes to poor people of, for example, welfare state opponents, are 2 sides of the same coin, and fascism is the ideology which is most notorious for perpetuating cold hearted and mean minded attitudes, so does David Cameron have little known fascist connections?</p> <p>We have already seen that Charles Murray is one source of David Cameron's thinking, and the Pioneer Fund, whose fascist views will be discussed shortly, is a source of Murray's ideas.</p> <p>David Cameron's big idea is "the Big Society", which basically means the cloud cuckoo land, and extremely dishonest notion that charities can replace a wrecked welfare state, and as I will now show, that distinctly Charles Murray sounding idea has fascist origins.</p> <p>According to this "Guardian" article which was reposted on the website of the think tank ResPublica, Phillip Blond, the founder of ResPublica, is a "huge influence" on the Big Society idea:</p> <p><a href="http://www.respublica.org.uk/media/phillip-blond-discusses-big-society-approach-guardian" rel="nofollow">http://www.respublica.org.uk/media/phillip-blond-discusses-big-society-approach-guardian</a></p> <p>So who is Phillip Blond?</p> <p>According to this BBC News story, he is "David Cameron's favourite thinker.":</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8381422.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8381422.stm</a></p> <p>According to this article in "Standpoint", a right wing magazine which was set up by David Cameron's Minister for Education, Michael Gove, Phillip Blond is a welfare state opponent who "is said to have the ear of senior Tories, including David Cameron and George Osborne.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/overrated-october-09-phillip-blond-jamie-whyte" rel="nofollow">http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/overrated-october-09-phillip-blond-jamie-whyte</a></p> <p>Incidentally, as this list of "Standpoint"'s writers shows, Charles Murray and George Osborne have both written for the magazine:</p> <p><a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/writers" rel="nofollow">http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/writers</a></p> <p>Also incidentally, despite the fact that Charles Murray's IQ ideas were inspired by fascist pseudoscience, "Standpoint" allowed Murray to write this article about education, which does not reflect well on Minister for Education Michael Gove, who is on "Standpoint"'s advisory board:</p> <p><a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/510/full" rel="nofollow">http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/510/full</a></p> <p>Michael Gove is part of David Cameron's "inner circle, the so-called Notting Hill Set", according to this "New Statesman" article, so the "Standpoint" claim that not just David Cameron, but also other senior Conservatives, including George Osborne listen to Phillip Blond, may well be correct:</p> <p><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2011/02/education-secretary-gove" rel="nofollow">http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2011/02/education-secretary-gove</a></p> <p>Conservative spin would have us believe that Phillip Blond is a progressive thinker, but like Margaret Thatcher quoting St. Francis of Assisi, who had sympathy for the poor, as soon as she came to power, and began the usual Conservative Robin Hood in reverse redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich, that spin is a deception.</p> <p>This article on the website of the Chesterton Society, who are fans of the writer G. K. Chesterton, reveals that Phillip Blond admires Chesterton, and 2 other writers, Hilaire Belloc and Thomas Carlyle:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gkchesterton.org.uk/blog/?p=28" rel="nofollow">http://www.gkchesterton.org.uk/blog/?p=28</a></p> <p>What did those 3 writers believe in?</p> <p>In this book, G. K. Chesterton expressed his admiration for Mussolini:</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Works-G-K-Chesterton-Resurrection/dp/0898702720" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Works-G-K-Chesterton-Resurrection/dp/0898702720</a></p> <p>In this book, Hilaire Belloc also expressed his admiration for Mussolini:</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cruise-Nona-Hilaire-Belloc/dp/B0000CK4YV" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cruise-Nona-Hilaire-Belloc/dp/B0000CK4YV</a></p> <p>On this website of the Conservative Democratic Alliance, which is a far right Conservative Party group, Stuart Millson, who as I will show in a moment, left the Conservatives and joined the BNP, praises G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc:</p> <p><a href="http://conservativedemocraticalliance.blogspot.com/2008/06/too-english-to-be-true-stuart-millson.html" rel="nofollow">http://conservativedemocraticalliance.blogspot.com/2008/06/too-english-to-be-true-stuart-millson.html</a></p> <p>This "Searchlight" article mentions Millson leaving the Conservative Party for the BNP:</p> <p><a href="http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&#038;story=80" rel="nofollow">http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&#038;story=80</a></p> <p>In June 1945, "The Journal of Modern History" published an article entitled "Thomas Carlyle, prophet of fascism", which you can read here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/1871955" rel="nofollow">http://www.jstor.org/stable/1871955</a></p> <p>So all of the 3 writers who the Chesterton Society article said Phillip Blond admires, were either admirers of a fascist dictator, or a "prophet of fascism" (Carlyle died in 1881, so he died 41 years before Mussolini became the first fascist dictator, but the just cited article, which was written at a time when people were more aware of the evils of fascism than they are today, says that, "His views on social and political problems, divested of their moral appeal by the march of time, are revealed to be those of a fascist in their essential implications.")</p> <p>Phillip Blond also openly admitted in this "Guardian" article, that he is "a fan" of the Middle Ages, which was a pre-democratic, and hardly "progressive" era:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/30/toryconference.conservatives" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/30/toryconference.conservatives</a></p> <p>Free market fundamentalist James Bartholomew's already mentioned, pro-Charles Murray, pro-scrapping the welfare state book, "The Welfare State We're In", criticises the first King of England, Wales, and Ireland who came to power after the Middle Ages, Henry VIII (he reigned from 1509 to 1547, and the Middle Ages are regarded as having ended in 1500), for setting up a very rudimentary Poor Laws social security system, so does David Cameron think, like James Bartholomew, that Henry VIII, who executed many people who annoyed him, including of course his second and fifth wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, was too humane? How inhumane do you have to be to effectively think that a man like Henry VIII was too humane?</p> <p>Inhumane enough to support the ideas of the fascist magazine "Right Now!"?</p> <p>After all, on the website which James Bartholomew set up to promote his pro-destroying the welfare state book, he republished "Right Now!"'s glowing review of it, which you can read here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/05/right_now_magaz.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/05/right_now_magaz.php</a></p> <p>The review mentions the fact that James Bartholomew's idol is Margaret Thatcher, which, given his far right free market fundamentalist views, is hardly surprising.</p> <p>Margaret Thatcher and her ministers admired the 19th Century, and promoted "Victorian values", ignoring the slums, mass homelessness, mass poverty, poverty related mass adult and child prostitution, mass opium and alcohol addiction, infectious disease epidemics, and other evils of that also pre-democratic era, and Phillip Blond ignores roughly the same kind of problems during the Middle Ages (I say roughly, because, for example, the British East India Company, which, in its day, was the world's biggest corporation, had not yet come into existence, and had thus not yet paved the way for the modern heroin trade which is devastating British working class communities, by selling opium it had grown in India to the British public).</p> <p>Incidentally, Thomas Malthus worked for the opium trafficking BEIC, as this BBC historical webpage reveals, so it is no wonder that he spouted Charles Murray type big business propaganda:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/malthus_thomas.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/malthus_thomas.shtml</a></p> <p>Also incidentally, another free market fundamentalist guru, the late Milton Friedman, whose "monetarist", slash public spending ideas not surprisingly led to poverty and unemployment in Britain and the US when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to power and implemented them, openly said in an interview which you can watch on the second DVD which came with the Canadian anti-big business documentary "The Corporation", that he backed the legalisation of the hard drug trade, for free market reasons.</p> <p>Charles Murray describes Milton Friedman as a "giant" in this article, which is strange, as Murray claims to have the scrap the welfare state answer to the problems of working class communities, despite the fact that they have been devastated by the violence, burglaries, and other thefts by dealers and addicts which are the result of the heroin, cocaine, crack, amphetamine, and methamphetamine trade that Friedman expressed his support for in "The Corporation" DVD interview:</p> <p><a href="http://blog.american.com/?p=5432" rel="nofollow">http://blog.american.com/?p=5432</a></p> <p>I said "not surprisingly" in the paragraph before last, because, when Milton Friedman visited the first country to implement monetarism, fascist dictator General Pinochet's Chile, he declared that the economy was a success, despite the fact that children had started fainting in school from hunger, because Pinochet had scrapped the minimum wage, and savaged the welfare state (his attack on trades union rights did not help either).</p> <p>Another free market fundamentalist guru who inspired Margaret Thatcher, Friedrich von Hayek, also supported General Pinochet's fascist regime:</p> <p>"Personally I prefer a liberal [in the sense of the term "neo-liberal"] dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism."</p> <p>That Friedrich von Hayek statement was cited on this webpage of France's Institut Hayek, which features an English translation of an interview which the Chilean newspaper "El Mercurio" did with him on April 12, 1981:</p> <p><a href="http://www.fahayek.org/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=121" rel="nofollow">http://www.fahayek.org/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=121</a></p> <p>David Cameron has of course embarked on monetarist style spending cuts, which not only Milton Friedman, but also Friedrich von Hayek advocated, and, moreover, he has also taken the Conservatives out of the conservative group in the European Parliament, and into a far right group who, as this "Stop 'respectable fascism' now" "Guardian" article by Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott points out, put up a candidate for vice president of the European Parliament, Michael Kaminski, who had been a member of a Polish fascist group, and who opposed the President of Poland's national apology for an SS backed World War 2 Polish massacre of Polish Jews:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/31/conservative-fascism-kaminski-europe" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/31/conservative-fascism-kaminski-europe</a></p> <p>Furthermore, as this "Daily Mirror" story reveals, David Cameron responded to Edward McMillan-Scott's attempts to stop Michael Kaminski becoming leader of the Conservatives' new "respectable fascism" far right group by expelling him from the Party:</p> <p><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/01/cameron-in-fascism-rap-115875-21563039/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/01/cameron-in-fascism-rap-115875-21563039/</a></p> <p>David Cameron's new far right European Parliament group also includes admirers of less "respectable" fascists, the Waffen SS, as this "Daily Mail" article points out:</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194874/Camerons-new-EU-allies-support-Hitlers-Waffen-SS-Obamas-election-end-civilisation.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194874/Camerons-new-EU-allies-support-Hitlers-Waffen-SS-Obamas-election-end-civilisation.html</a></p> <p>If David Cameron does want to scrap all social security benefits, that would of course turn Britain into countries like Brazil and Jamaica, where extreme poverty has long led to rage generated high murder and other violent crime rates, and to high property crime rates. The police in both countries have been criticised by Amnesty International for responding to those high violent crime and property crime rates by forming death squads which execute criminals and suspected criminals, which, in the case of Brazil, often means its army of street children, who some businessmen pay the police death squads to shoot.</p> <p>As poverty and race are closely linked in Brazil, those children are primarily black.</p> <p>Armies of street children are of course an inevitable result of 19th Century "Victorian values", which is why the Sioux chief Sitting Bull was horrified to find when he toured the US in 1885 with the Wild West Show, that Americans allowed children to sleep on the streets, which is why he gave much of the money he earned from the Show to street children, and to adult beggars, who are of course another inevitable result of 19th Century Victorian values.</p> <p>This "Independent" article discusses homeless 19th Century London children who had to beg for food and prostitute themselves because of Victorian values:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-century-apart-children-face-poverty-trap-as-deep-as-ever-486301.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-century-apart-children-face-poverty-trap-as-deep-as-ever-486301.html</a></p> <p>Barack Obama famously described David Cameron as "a lightweight", so it is of course no surprise that he should take an interest in Charles Murray's stupid ideas, which are part of a racist pseudoscience tradition that is trying to make racism respectable by giving it a "scientific" basis, which will stop anti-racists refuting its ideas, so I will refute "The Bell Curve"'s IQ claims, which is not difficult, as they are inspired by such shallow thinking.</p> <p>Even if you accept that IQ test is the only measure of intelligence, which it isn't, as it only measures speed of thought, and not depth of thought, emotional intelligence, intuition, or the practical intelligence of someone who can fix a car that an academic would have no idea how to fix, and even if you accept Charles Murray's narrow minded, elitist view that high IQ people should be a separate caste above the rest of society, which ignores the vast range of human abilities like love, sex drive, kindness, compassion, and athleticism, Murray's and Richard Herrnstein's book is simply wrong.</p> <p>These 2 paragraphs from a "New York Times" article alone demolishes "The Bell Curve"'s racist pseudoscientific notion that black Americans, who tend to be much poorer than white Americans, have an average IQ which, the book implies, is 15 points lower than white Americans' average IQ for genetic reasons:</p> <p>"What happens in these rare instances of riches-to-rags adoption? To answer that question, two psychologists, Christiane Capron and Michel Duyme, combed through thousands of records from French public and private adoption agencies. “It was slow, dusty work,” Duyme recalls. Their natural experiment mimics animal studies in which, for instance, a newborn rhesus monkey is taken from its nurturing biological mother and handed over to an uncaring foster mother. The findings are also consistent: how genes are expressed depends on the social context.</p> <p>"Regardless of whether the adopting families were rich or poor, Capron and Duyme learned, children whose biological parents were well-off had I.Q. scores averaging 16 points higher than those from working-class parents. Yet what is really remarkable is how big a difference the adopting families’ backgrounds made all the same. The average I.Q. of children from well-to-do parents who were placed with families from the same social stratum was 119.6. But when such infants were adopted by poor families, their average I.Q. was 107.5 — 12 points lower. The same holds true for children born into impoverished families: youngsters adopted by parents of similarly modest means had average I.Q.’s of 92.4, while the I.Q.’s of those placed with well-off parents averaged 103.6. These studies confirm that environment matters — the only, and crucial, difference between these children is the lives they have led."</p> <p>You can read that "New York Times" article here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print</a></p> <p>Why should better off parents' children have much higher IQ scores? Because their parents are able to afford more nutritious food is one obvious answer.</p> <p>This "Biotech Week" article, "Malnutrition in early years leads to low IQ and later antisocial behavior", reveals the hardly surprising link between IQ and diet:</p> <p><a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-125724772.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-125724772.html</a></p> <p>Nutrition is the same reason that the world's richest nations dominate the top of world's tallest countries table.</p> <p>As this "Metro" news story reveals, the world's tallest people are the Dutch, followed by the Norwegians, while Americans, who were once the world's tallest people, are now significantly shorter than most Northern and Western European peoples, who like Americans, live in affluent nations, but unlike Americans, live in countries that are more financially egalitarian than the US, which means that a greater percentage of their parents can feed their children adequately:</p> <p><a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/35629-dutch-are-the-worlds-tallest-its-official" rel="nofollow">http://www.metro.co.uk/news/35629-dutch-are-the-worlds-tallest-its-official</a><br /> The scientists who did the study which "Metro" cited, argued that diet, and Europe's better welfare states were the reason that Americans are now shorter than people in some European countries.</p> <p>This "Scientific American" article, which, unlike "The Bell Curve", is based on science rather than pseudoscience, points out that partly because they spend far more government money on research and development (and partly, in my opinion, because their generous welfare payments encourage people to continue spending, rather than saving money when recessions happen), Scandinavian countries with high tax rates and high welfare spending have bigger budget surpluses, relative to GDP, and have less poverty, than the low tax, low welfare spending Anglo-Saxon countries and Ireland, which are more culturally influenced by American right wing economic ideas, for historical and language reasons, than Scandinavian countries, so it is bizarre that politicians should continue to be interested in any way in height stunting, IQ lowering American right wing economic ideas:</p> <p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-social-welfare-state" rel="nofollow">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-social-welfare-state</a></p> <p>"The Bell Curve" also fails to mention the fact that as this "USA Today" article, "Lead poisoning: the plague of America's inner cities", shows, American black children, who are more likely than their white counterparts to live in inner cities, are more exposed to IQ reducing lead pollution for various reasons, which is why, as the article points out, 90% of black inner city children aged 3 to 5 "have elevated blood-lead levels":</p> <p><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2602_v124/ai_17321004/" rel="nofollow">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2602_v124/ai_17321004/</a></p> <p>Unfortunately for racist far right writers like Charles Murray, unlike race, politics has a lot to do with IQ levels, which is why an Edinburgh University study which was cited at the end of this article in "The Scotsman", found that racist far right BNP voters have lower IQ levels than big 3 party, Green, SNP, and Plaid Cymru voters:</p> <p><a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Glenrothes-byelection-Activists-flood-in.4652904.jp" rel="nofollow">http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Glenrothes-byelection-Activists-flood-in.4652904.jp</a></p> <p>Moreover, a 2011 "Searchlight" report which was discussed in this "Guardian" article, found that the most pro-multiculturalism people in the UK, tend to be graduates, and that the most anti-multiculturalism people tend not to be graduates, as the unskilled tend to be the most anti-multiculturalism, which is further evidence that, as you would expect, lower IQ people are the more likely to be racist than higher IQ people:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/28/david-miliband-attacks-david-cameron" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/28/david-miliband-attacks-david-cameron</a></p> <p>So do those 2 studies prove that Charles Murray was a dunce for writing his racist book "The Bell Curve"?</p> <p>One example of Murray's stupidity which requires no comment, was revealed by a "Time" magazine article, "For Whom the Bell Curves":</p> <p>"...stranger still is his premise that the early '60s were a time when race was unimportant to the people who controlled [racially segregated American] schools and jobs, to say nothing of lunch counters."</p> <p>You can read that quotation here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981658-3,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981658-3,00.html</a></p> <p>American supporters of the "research" which "The Bell Curve" bases its racism on, argue that the book proves it is pointless to use affirmative action to get black and Hispanic people into better paid jobs, as they are stupid, pointless to spend money on educating them, as they are stupid, and pointless to give them social security payments, as that is subsidising the breeding of stupid people.</p> <p>For example, this "New York Times" article mentions the fact that "The Bell Curve" is used to justify not spending money on educating black people, and to justify not doing anything about black white income disparity, which affirmative action deals with:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print</a></p> <p>Moreover, this "Economist" article points out that:</p> <p>"The new hereditarians [supporters of the IQ is primarily genetics related, not nutrition, lead poisoning, etc. related theory] were assailed, in print and in person; but they were not squashed. Their research won support from, and gave support to, conservative politicians keen to roll back the costly welfare policies of the post-1945 years. “The Bell Curve”, by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, published in 1994, is a powerful expression of this alliance. It argues that, since IQ is largely inherited, and people marry people like themselves, the difference between the intelligence of races and classes is liable to grow steadily wider.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/109401" rel="nofollow">http://www.economist.com/node/109401</a></p> <p>As I have said, Murray himself has long advocated scrapping the welfare state, as "Scientific American" magazine pointed out in their very scathing January 1995 review of his pseudoscientific book, "For Whom the Bell Curve Really Tolls: A tendentious tome abuses science to promote far-right policies":</p> <p>"The arguments stem from the same tradition of biological determinism that led, not so long ago, to compulsory sterilizations in the U.S. and genocide elsewhere. The notion is that individuals' characteristics are both essentially fixed by inheritance and immune to alteration by the environment. Efforts to help those who are unfortunate by reason of their genes are unlikely to be rewarded. Solutions, therefore, should include those Murray has long advocated: abolish welfare, reduce affirmative action and simplify criminal law." (p.14)</p> <p>You can read the review here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/sciam2.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/sciam2.htm</a></p> <p>Incidentally, "Scientific American" also pointed out in this abstract to the same review, that, "Charles Murray's and Richard Herrnstein's 'The Bell Curve' is riddled with errors in statistical methods and data interpretation":</p> <p><a href="http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Science-and-technology/For-whom-the-bell-curve-really-tolls-a-tendentious-tome-abuses-science-to-promote-far-right-policies.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Science-and-technology/For-whom-the-bell-curve-really-tolls-a-tendentious-tome-abuses-science-to-promote-far-right-policies.html</a></p> <p>In this already mentioned "Independent" interview with Charles Murray, "How I would tackle the new rabble", he thus not surprisingly reveals his anti-welfare state views, as he says that all social security payments to single parents should be scrapped:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html</a></p> <p>The Pioneer Fund, which financed the "research" that "The Bell Curve"'s racist pseudoscientific conclusions were based on, was described in the "Sunday Telegraph" of March 12, 1989, as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics", and its first president, Harry Laughlin, who was one of the founders of the American Eugenics Society, which was set up in 1922, inspired the Nazis' eugenicist 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, which led to the forcible sterilisation of about 350,000 Germans, as this "New Statesman" article points out, so it is hardly surprising that the far right supporters of the "research" which the Pioneer Fund financed should have decided that "The Bell Curve" justified their decision to "roll back the costly welfare policies of the post-1945 years":</p> <p><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019" rel="nofollow">http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019</a></p> <p>Among the people who the Nazis forcibly sterilised, for racist reasons, were the mixed race children of white German mothers and African troops who were part of the French garrison which occupied the Rhineland area of Germany after World War One.</p> <p>Here is the transcript of an ABC Television "World News Tonight" report on the Pioneer Fund's links to the "research" which was cited in "The Bell Curve":</p> <p><a href="http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/049.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/049.html</a></p> <p>The former President of the Pioneer Fund, Harry Weyher, has this to say about the report:</p> <p>"On 22 November 1994 ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings was replete with somber voices speaking of a small penis being a "sign of superior intelligence", "eradicating inferior people", arresting blacks solely because of skin color, race superiority, and mentally ill Jews. This voice-over was spiced with references to Hitler and scenes of emaciated victims in Nazi death camps.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.pioneerfund.org/Weyher_pdf.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.pioneerfund.org/Weyher_pdf.pdf</a></p> <p>The Southern Poverty Law Center have this to say about the Pioneer Fund's fascist views, and its funding of racist pseudoscientists:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund</a></p> <p>Another SPLC article, by Professor Barry Mehler, who runs the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, reveals that the late American fascist party (National Alliance) leader William Pierce, who openly advocated killing all of the world's billions of non-white and Jewish people, as I explained in a 2009 Operation Black Vote article, agreed with Murray's pseudoscience opinion that black people are genetically less intelligent than white people, which illustrates how dangerous "scientific" racism can be:</p> <p>You can read my OBV article here:</p> <p><a href="http://operationblackvote.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/questiontime-for-bnps-fascist-links/" rel="nofollow">http://operationblackvote.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/questiontime-for-bnps-fascist-links/</a></p> <p>In his SPLC article, Professor Mehler wrote:</p> <p>"National Vanguard, the publication of former physics professor William Pierce...and his neo-Nazi National Alliance, runs a similar piece that concludes that "it is the Negro's deficiency...which kept him in a state of savagery in his African environment and is now undermining the civilization of a racially mixed America."</p> <p>"Ed Fields, a longtime, virulent racist, uses a review of Charles Murray's highly controversial book on IQ, The Bell Curve, to conclude that "over 50% of all Blacks test in the dull to retarded range.""</p> <p>You can read Professor Mehler's article here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,2" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,2</a></p> <p>The next paragraph of Mehler's article shows why the Pioneer Fund use "academic" pseudoscience to try to make racism respectable:</p> <p>"But it may be David Duke [a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who was also a Republican Party politician in the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1990 and 1992] who sums it up best. "No subject is more controversial than the nature versus nurture debate, and no subject has more direct consequences on society," he writes. "If heredity is shown to [be] the primary influence on intelligence rather than environment, then racial equality will crumble as a viable concept....""</p> <p>If academics like Charles Murray can make people believe that black and Hispanic people are genetically less intelligent than white people, racism can become a respectable viewpoint, which will also make the fascist ideas of people like the Ku Klux Klan, the Pioneer Fund, and William Pierce more respectable.</p> <p>This strategy has had some success. After all, Murray's book was issued by a major American publisher (who would doubtless not have issued a book which implied that white people are genetically less intelligent than black and Hispanic people), and Murray, who was not very well known before he wrote that book, has been allowed to write articles for 3 major American newspapers, "The New York Times", which is the most influential newspaper in the US, "USA Today", and "The Washington Post" (who would also doubtless not have allowed someone who implied that white people are genetically less intelligent than black and Hispanic people to write for them).</p> <p>This Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting article, "Racism Resurgent", is a detailed discussion of the interest which the mainstream American media took in "The Bell Curve" when it came out, and of the Pioneer Fund's fascist views, and support for the Third Reich, and the partly Third Reich inspired South African apartheid regime:</p> <p><a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1271" rel="nofollow">http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1271</a></p> <p>Charles Murray claims that the Pioneer Fund is not the same organisation as it was in the past, when it was linked to the Third Reich, but that is purely and simply a lie, as the Fund gave money to the late "Mankind Quarterly" contributor Glayde Whitney, who, 4 years after "the Bell Curve" was published, wrote the foreword to the racist and sexist 1998 autobiography of the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, who presented a paper at the Iranian Islamist tyranny's 2006 Holocaust denial conference.</p> <p>Moreover, Whitney was associated with the Holocaust denying Institute for Historical Review, who published this obituary of him:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v21/v21n1p13_whitney.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v21/v21n1p13_whitney.html</a></p> <p>This BBC News story mentions David Duke presenting a paper at the Iranian conference:</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6167695.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6167695.stm</a></p> <p>Walter Kistler, who has been the main donor to the Pioneer Fund in recent years, set up the Foundation for the Future, a science organisation whose events have attracted David Duke, according to this SPLC article:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/summer/of-race-and-rockets" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/summer/of-race-and-rockets</a></p> <p>Moreover, as this long "Albany Law Review" article about the Pioneer Fund and its Third Reich links points out, one year before "The Bell Curve" came out, the Pioneer funded Foundation for Human Understanding in Athens, Georgia issued an extremely racist book by Stanley Burnham whose ideas were very similar to "The Bell Curve":</p> <p><a href="http://www.albanylawreview.org/archives/65/3/TheAmericanBreed-NaziEugenicsandtheOriginsofthePioneerFund.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.albanylawreview.org/archives/65/3/TheAmericanBreed-NaziEugenicsandtheOriginsofthePioneerFund.pdf</a></p> <p>Burnham's "America's Bimodal Crisis: Black Intelligence in White Society", by Stanley Burnham, argues that "America's racial crisis is intractable and cannot be 'solved'" because it is caused by "genetic, not environmental" factors which cannot be solved by government spending. Burnham argues that black people have smaller brains than Europeans, which is why he argues that Africa's problems are the result of the "ignorance and irresponsibility of the African mind", and that black people's problems in other parts of the world are the result of "genetic deficiencies that they cannot remedy."</p> <p>As a result, he applauds colonial rule over Africa, and criticises decolonisation.</p> <p>The same "Albany Law Review" article cites Charles Murray's opinion that the Pioneer Fund gives money to "the most important scholars of intelligence", which is as inaccurate a statement as another Murray claim which is also cited in that article. Murray complains that Pioneer's critics attack the Fund for what it was involved in "50 and 60 years ago", when it was "allegedly associated with people of racist views". There is no "allegedly" about its Third Reich era association with "people of racist views", and it still is a fascist organisation, as its funding of the late Glayde Whitney proves.</p> <p>As "Racism Resurgent" explains, one of the Pioneer funded researchers who "The Bell Curve" cites, Professor Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, who is clearly one of Charles Murray's "most important scholars of intelligence", like the other Pioneer funded "researchers" he cites, who I will discuss shortly, has similar views to the late, already mentioned, pro-killing billions of non-white and Jewish people fascist party leader William Pierce:</p> <p>"Murray and Herrnstein describe Lynn as "a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences." Here's a sample of Lynn's thinking on such differences: "What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such peoples... Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less comp http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-113 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:49:44 +0000 admin 113@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Dear Sir or Madam,<br /> You may be interested in this article about David Cameron's cuts and their link to his racist, and in the case of the Pioneer Fund, and also his key adviser, Phillip Blond, fascist connections, which I sending to every anti-cuts group I can find in the UK, because it is important for people to properly understand the ideological origins of Cameron's anti-cuts thinking, partly as it will make them more angry when they find out what they are.</p> <p>David Cameron says that he is running a "liberal Conservative" government, but the truth is very different, as I show in great detail. Before the Tories lost the 2005 election, which was of course their third defeat in a row, Cameron was certainly not a "liberal Conservative", and the ideological origins of his cuts thinking prove that his sudden liberal makeover after that election defeat was purely cosmetic. </p> <p>If you are interested in posting this article on your site, please can you send me the link. </p> <p> Thanks and best wishes, Roddy</p> <p>DAVID CAMERON'S SPENDING CUTS AND THE RACIST "BELL CURVE"</p> <p>David Cameron tells us that he is a "liberal Conservative", but as I will show in this article, his spending cuts attack on the welfare state, which disproportionately affects racial minorities and women, was inspired by the far right racist and sexist American writer Charles Murray, who wrote the 1994 book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" (Simon and Schuster, New York), which used racist pseudoscience "research" funded by the fascist Pioneer Fund, who had links to the Third Reich, to imply that black and Hispanic people are poorer than white people because they are genetically less intelligent than them, and that black and Hispanic immigration, and relatively high black and Hispanic birth rates, are lowering the intelligence level of the American public.</p> <p>That is why Daniel Finkelstein, who is one of George Osborne's "closest confidants" according to the May 12, 2005 "Evening Standard" article "The irresistible rise of Boy George", and who was the Director of the Conservative Research Department from 1995 to 1997, an adviser to William Hague from 1997 to 2001, and then a secretary to the Conservative shadow cabinet, wrote in this "Times" article that, "Mr Cameron's rather too sweeping attacks on big government have their roots in the neoconservative critique of welfare policy by American writers such as Charles Murray and Gertrude Himmelfarb. They argued that the perverse incentives of the welfare state undermined responsibility (another favourite Cameron word). And these ideas were in currency during the Major Government. As was the emphasis on marriage [which is why Murray allegedly inspired John Major's Back to Basics campaign against single mothers, whose benefit payments were cut after they had been demonised]":</p> <p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article6873422.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article6873422.ece</a></p> <p>Instead of using government money to stimulate the economy by creating jobs, which this incompetent, job cutting Conservative led government is failing to do, it is distracting people's attention from its incompetence by demonising the unemployed, who are far more numerous than job vacancies, via its friends in the right wing press.</p> <p>There is certainly plenty of money available to create such jobs, as even without, for example, introducing a land tax on large landowners, or imposing extra tax on unpopular privatised utilities, a Robin Hood tax on unpopular bankers and speculators could raise huge amounts of money.</p> <p>Just recently, to cite “The Guardian” article “MEPs vote for Robin Hood tax as banks face stress tests”, “…European lawmakers voted yesterday for a 200 bn euro (£172 bn) a year financial transactions tax to be slapped on the [banking] sector…The parliament backed a tax that would be levied at 0.05% on financial transactions, which would raise up to 200 bn euros.”</p> <p>But as long ago as 2007, when there was money to create jobs than there is now, this "Spectator" article showed that David Cameron was going to start American style welfare state spending cuts ("Bring 'the Wisconsin welfare revolution' to Britain"), which of course proves that Cameron is lying about his cuts being a response to the budget deficits which the recession, rising unemployment, and low, or non-existent taxes on big business and wealthy people have created:</p> <p><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/313841/cameron-means-business-on-welfare-the-tories-are-the-radicals-again.thtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/313841/cameron-means-business-on-welfare-the-tories-are-the-radicals-again.thtml</a></p> <p>As this "New Statesman" article, "Thumbs up for the bright, white folks" reveals, Charles Murray was a consultant to Wisconsin's "W-2" welfare cuts, which David Cameron was already intending to bring to Britain in 2007:</p> <p><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019" rel="nofollow">http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019</a></p> <p>That article also reveals the predictable results of Wisconsin's cuts, including cuts in benefits paid to single parents and their children: in the first year, there was a 17.6% rise in child mortality in Milwaukee, the biggest city in Wisconsin, and a 37% rise in black child mortality.</p> <p>Another article about W-2, "Why It Failed", which was published in the "Milwaukee Magazine", explains that it has led to increased homelessness, to larger numbers of people turning to "food pantries" to feed themselves, and to more people not being given access to healthcare.</p> <p>That article, which you can read here, also shows where David Cameron borrowed his "broken Britain" term from:</p> <p><a href="http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/endgame/default.asp?NewMessageID=18578" rel="nofollow">http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/endgame/default.asp?NewMessageID=18578</a></p> <p>This "Guardian" article about David Cameron aping American politicians, has a link to another "Guardian" article about how even Barack Obama's healthcare reforms will not provide all Americans with proper healthcare, and if Obama had not been elected, the American healthcare situation would of course have been far worse:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/07/david-cameron-political-speeches" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/07/david-cameron-political-speeches</a></p> <p>The fact that David Cameron believes in the Republican W-2 welfare state model, should be understood by anyone who is concerned about what Conservative privatisation will do to the NHS. While it is true that Margaret Thatcher halving the amount of cleaning in now not properly cleaned, and sometimes filthy NHS hospitals, led to the UK having such a bad MRSA infection rate, that Swedish hospitals have special isolation rooms to treat people who they find out have been treated in British NHS hospitals, the NHS is still far better than Barack Obama's healthcare system, and far, far better than Republican healthcare.</p> <p>Michael Moore's "Sicko" film portrayed the NHS as wonderful, which compared to the American healthcare system it is, but in Sweden, it is viewed very differently. </p> <p>This webpage shows how much lower the drug resistant MRSA infection rate is in Swedish hospitals compared to NHS ones:</p> <p><a href="http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/hospitaltreatment/treatment-abroad/mrsa-europe/" rel="nofollow">http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/hospitaltreatment/treatment-abroad/mrsa-europe/</a></p> <p>There is of course nothing unusual about David Cameron aping American politicians, as Conservative politicians usually look to the Republicans for their latest very shallow ideas, despite the fact that hunger and homelessness continue to rise in that weak welfare state country. This 2011 press release by the Mayors of American cities discussed the continuing rise in hunger and homelessness in the US:</p> <p><a href="http://www.citymayors.com/features/uscity_poverty.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.citymayors.com/features/uscity_poverty.html</a></p> <p>There is nothing new about that trend. Even this 2004 article on the website of the USA's far right, free market fundamentalist Heritage Foundation think tank admits that hunger and homelessness have gone up every year since the Mayors of American cities began issuing an annual press release on that subject in 1986, though Heritage predictably claim that the increases have been exaggerated: </p> <p><a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/12/mayors-claims-of-growing-hunger-are-once-again-exaggerated" rel="nofollow">http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/12/mayors-claims-of-growing-hunger-are-once-again-exaggerated</a></p> <p>I said "predictably", as later on in this article, I will discuss Heritage's employment of the Pioneer Fund financed Roger Pearson, who set up the fascist Northern League (which is not to be confused with a far right Italian political party that is part of Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government) with, amongst other people, 2001 UKIP candidate for Parliament Alistair Harper.</p> <p>On page 14, this article by then Labour MEP Richard Corbett mentions Harper co-founding the Northern League (and discusses the many other UKIP connections to fascist organisations and Holocaust denial, and their predictable, Charles Murray type attitude to the welfare state):</p> <p><a href="http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/theres-something-about-ukip.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/theres-something-about-ukip.pdf</a></p> <p>At least when the Labour Party's main foreign role model was Sweden, there was a good chance that the damage which Conservative governments do to the welfare state could be repaired, but once the Labour Party was taken over by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who both look to the US for their ideas, a Conservative government created problem like unhygienic NHS hospitals was ever likely not to be put right.</p> <p>Sweden is not the best foreign role model in the world, because Denmark tends to win world's happiest country polls, as ""The Times" Guide to the Peoples of Europe" book pointed out, because Holland beat Denmark in a happiest country in the EU survey, and because Dutch schoolchildren beat Danish schoolchildren in the 19 European nations and the US and Canada 2007 UNICEF child happiness survey (British schoolchildren came bottom, behind even 20th placed American schoolchildren), but any properly informed politician should be aware that Sweden and the other East Scandinavian countries, which, with Holland, were rated by the Thatcherite magazine "The Economist" as the world's 5 most financially egalitarian nations, are better foreign role models than the US.</p> <p>As you would expect, the East Scandinavian countries were clustered together under Holland in the child happiness survey (Sweden in 2nd place, Denmark in 3rd, Finland in 4th, and Norway in 7th, under Spain and Switzerland).</p> <p>This BBC News story analyses the survey :</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6360517.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6360517.stm</a> </p> <p>This second analysis of the survey, in "The Guardian", found that British schoolchildren were less likely than schoolchildren in other countries to say that their peers were "kind and helpful", as you would expect, because unhappy children are unkind and unhelpful, which is why bullying and name calling are notoriously rampant in British schools, why those unhappy bullies and name callers go on to behave in the same way in their workplaces, in the street, etc., and why they then mistreat their children and make them unhappy bullies and name callers:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/feb/14/childrensservices.politics" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/feb/14/childrensservices.politics</a></p> <p>Helen Mirren complained in a French interview about the nastiness of the British on the Internet, but the rich world's unhappiest country is ever likely to be full of unhappy people who feel like posting nasty comments, blog posts, etc. online.</p> <p>Like the bullying and name calling in British schools, workplaces, etc., that problem will only get worse while British politics is dominated by people who believe that the extremely dysfunctional American society, with its notoriously high levels of serial killing, violent crime in general, hard drug abuse, homelessness, hunger, etc. has any useful right wing political ideas which should be copied on this side of the Atlantic.</p> <p>This "Observer" article about one British politician who is dumb enough to think that the US has any useful right wing political ideas which should be copied in Britain, David Cameron, "How Britain's new welfare state was born in the USA", discusses the fact that American politicians' cuts to that country's very weak welfare state, were backed by Charles Murray, and I will show in a forthcoming article, "George W. Bush's spending cuts and the racist "Bell Curve"", that Murray's based on fascist "research" "Bell Curve" directly inspired those politicians to undertake those cuts, which then inspired David Cameron to make the same cuts:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/07/britain-welfare-state-born-usa" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/07/britain-welfare-state-born-usa</a></p> <p>David Miliband was thus right to say in this speech, which you can read on his website: "But the Tories’ problem is that their instinct is the oldest deception in politics: that government just hurts the little guy. In essence it is an extension of Charles Murray’s dependency culture thesis about the welfare state from the 1980s, and applying to all functions of government not just welfare.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.davidmiliband.info/speeches/speeches_010_02.htma" rel="nofollow">http://www.davidmiliband.info/speeches/speeches_010_02.htma</a></p> <p>As I will show in this article, Charles Murray has worked for big business funded think tanks, so as he who pays the piper calls the tune, it is hardly surprising that, like a grovelling minion at the court of a Mediaeval royal family, Murray (a) praises (in "the Bell Curve") the intelligence of the big business CEO's who fund his large annual American Enterprise Institute salary, and (b) wants to stop government help to "the little guy", as stopping that help will let big business pay even less tax than it does already, because of tax havens, and a global tax system which is increasingly making "the little guy" pay a bigger proportion of the tax bill so big business can pay less corporation tax, and so its wealthy owners can pay even less tax than they also do already, because of tax havens (most of which are British colonies, like the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, British Crown Dependencies, like the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, or British Commonwealth countries, like the Bahamas and Grenada), and because of arrangements like Britain's notorious "non-dom" tax loophole for the super rich.</p> <p>Daniel Finkelstein's article proves that Charles Murray's racist and sexist anti-welfare state ideas have been "in currency" since John Major's time, so it is no surprise that Major's Minister for Social Security, Peter Lilley, who reduced payments to single mothers after they had been demonised, expresses his admiration for Charles Murray, and criticises a cornerstone of the welfare state (the NHS) in this review of British Conservative journalist James Bartholomew's pro-scrapping the welfare state book, "The Welfare State We're In" (Politico's Publishing, London, 2004), which cites a Charles Murray book in its small "Select bibliography", and which describes Murray as "a first class brain":</p> <p><a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/03/review_by_peter.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/03/review_by_peter.php</a></p> <p>So, in this March 11, 1995 "Racial scapegoats" letter to "The Independent", which attacked Charles Murray's racist statements about lower black IQ levels in his "How I would tackle the new rabble" interview with that newspaper, the late black Labour MP Bernie Grant, and Linda Bellos of the Africa Reparations Movement, were thus also right to warn that Murray's hostility towards single parents would influence Peter Lilley:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letter-racial-scapegoats-1610931.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letter-racial-scapegoats-1610931.html</a></p> <p>Bernie Grant and Linda Bellos also correctly pointed out their letter, that Charles Murray's racist ideas were, "an old neo-Malthusian and eugenicist argument that is as problematic now as it ever was."</p> <p>The fact that Charles Murray's ideas, which have led to a sharp increase in child mortality in Wisconsin, are part of the wipe out certain types of people eugenics tradition, which was discredited by the Third Reich's enthusiasm for eugenics, is not hard to prove, because the fascist Pioneer Fund has been involved in the American eugenics movement since the Fund was founded in 1937 by eugenicists like Harry Laughlin and Frederick Osborn.</p> <p>Moreover, as this Institute for the Study of Academic Racism webpage points out, the Fund gave a grant to Michael Levin, a New York professor who had Charles Murray type views, as he, "argued that black population growth must be slowed by ending public assistance [social security].":</p> <p><a href="http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/forbes.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/forbes.htm</a></p> <p>I will say a lot more about the fascist eugenicist ideas of the Pioneer Fund which inspired Charles Murray's "Bell Curve" book in this article.</p> <p>The fact that Murray (and Gertrude Himmelfarb) are neo-Malthusians is also easy to prove.</p> <p>In his 1798 "An Essay on the Principle of Population" (Oxford World Classics, Oxford, 2008), Thomas Malthus argued for scrapping the rudimentary social security of his time, the Poor Laws. (pp.39-45)</p> <p>Malthus also shared another of Charles Murray's opinions: contempt for poorer people, who Murray calls "the new rabble". Hence the title of this "Independent" interview which Bernie Grant's letter was a reply to, "How I would tackle the new rabble":</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html</a></p> <p>Thomas Malthus obviously felt contempt for poorer people, as he believed that it was wrong to help them, and that they should be forced to live at a subsistence level, as this "Victorian Web" academic article about Malthus' "Essay on Population" explains:</p> <p><a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/essay.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/essay.html</a></p> <p>Getrude Himmelfarb's neo-Malthusian views are revealed by this webpage, which lists some of the books that she has edited, including a 1960 edition of Thomas Malthus' "Essays on Population":</p> <p><a href="http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/himmelfarb-gertrude" rel="nofollow">http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/himmelfarb-gertrude</a></p> <p>Bernie Grant and Linda Bellos were also of course right to say in their "Racial scapegoats" letter, that, "Murray is merely a new voice of the hard right who wish to scapegoat Africans both in Africa and the "Diaspora". This may, they think, divert attention and unrest among white working class people if black people can be seen to be the problem."</p> <p>As Daniel Finkelstein's article proves, Charles Murray's racist and sexist influence on the Conservative Party did not stop after Peter Lilley lost his job, which is why a Conservative think tank which David Cameron and his Work and Pensions Secretary, Chris Grayling, are associated with, the Centre for Policy Studies, invited the co-author of "The Bell Curve", the late Richard Herrnstein, to give a speech to them, as this "Independent" article reveals:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/britain-on-the-couch-breaking-out-of-the-mould-1153487.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/britain-on-the-couch-breaking-out-of-the-mould-1153487.html</a></p> <p>This article from the anti-fascist magazine "Searchlight", which the late famous Nazi war criminal hunter Simon Wiesenthal praised, and which all 3 of the major parties have asked for advice on how to defeat the BNP in elections, reveals that the late Alfred Sherman, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher who was the co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies, wrote a 2001 article for a now defunct fascist magazine called "Right Now!", which was edited by Derek Turner, who had been the leader of an Irish fascist group, the Social Action Initiative, and also reveals that Sherman gave an interview to "Right Now!" in 1997 in which he said that, "they [the Conservatives] have betrayed the nation, by allowing mass immigration of totally alien Third World peoples...":</p> <p><a href="http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&#038;story=110" rel="nofollow">http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&#038;story=110</a></p> <p>This Institute for the Study of Academic Racism webpage reveals that Simon Wiesenthal thought "Searchlight" was the best English language magazine of its kind on the planet:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ferris.edu/isar/related-sites.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ferris.edu/isar/related-sites.htm</a></p> <p>"Right Now!" editor Derek Turner has described himself as a "neighbourhood Nazi", as this "Independent" article about the magazine reveals, and its 50th issue featured an interview with Nick Griffin, so given those facts, and Turner's Social Action Initiative past, it is not unfair to describe "Right Now!" as "fascist", despite the fact that, as this "Independent" article shows, a Conservative MP was a patron of the magazine:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-magazine-run-by-a-neighbourhood-nazi-605796.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-magazine-run-by-a-neighbourhood-nazi-605796.html</a></p> <p>That article also mentions "Right Now!"'s support for eugenics, which it discussed in an article titled "The Conservative Case for a New Eugenics". According to "The Independent", "The piece argued that "the Right should endorse measures to improve human traits through genetic selection". It suggested that welfare recipients should be put on the Pill and repeat offenders should "forfeit reproductive rights"".</p> <p>Alfred Sherman was a supporter of Slobodan Milosevic's genocidal war in Bosnia, as "Guardian" journalist Francis Wheen explained in this article:</p> <p>"During the Bosnian war Sir Alfred served as a consultant to Karadzic and the murderous Ratko Mladic. 'I was advising them but they wouldn't take my advice,' he told me sadly in 1996. 'I wanted them to go on the offensive.' This was also the reason for his falling-out with Thatcher, whom he came to regard as a wishy-washy liberal. Still, it seems that Sherman has at last found a dictator stern enough to win his respect: he flew into Belgrade yesterday to express his 'solidarity' with Slobodan Milosevic.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/apr/28/features11.g2" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/apr/28/features11.g2</a></p> <p>As this Centre for Policy Studies webpage reveals, David Cameron gave a speech to honour the CPS, 35 years after it was founded by the pro-"Right Now!", pro-Milosevic's genocidal war Alfred Sherman:</p> <p><a href="http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/David_Cameron_s_Speech_at_the_Centre_for_Policy_Studies_35th_Anniversary_Party_.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/David_Cameron_s_Speech_at_the_Centre_for_Policy_Studies_35th_Anniversary_Party_.html</a></p> <p>Another CPS webpage reveals that Chris Grayling has given a speech to that organisation:</p> <p><a href="http://www.cps.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=cpsarticle&#038;id=208&#038;Itemid=17" rel="nofollow">http://www.cps.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=cpsarticle&#038;id=208&#038;Itemid=17</a></p> <p>So not surprisingly, David Cameron allegedly secretly plans to scrap all social security benefits, according to Lord Strathclyde, the Conservative leader in the House of Lords, as a "Daily Telegraph" article, "Tory peer's wife tells wife: I'm sorry" (February 7, 2011, p.10), which is not online explains:</p> <p>"...Miss Cunningham, 48, claimed that [her lover] Lord Strathclyde told her the Government was planning to get rid of "the whole lot" of benefits..."</p> <p>If David Cameron is secretly planning to scrap all social security benefits as part of his W-2 style attack on the poor, and particularly on the black and Asian poor, who are much more likely to be unemployed than white Britons, because most employers are Conservatives, or UKIP or BNP supporters, and thus often racist, we could do with a modern successor to Jonathon Swift, the 17th to 18th Centuries Irish satirist and cleric, who is most famous for writing "Gulliver's Travels", but who also wrote a famous 1729 satire of the cruelty of the British elite, "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public", in which he suggested that the Irish poor should sell their children to the rich so they could be eaten.</p> <p>Swift was, incidentally, not trying to trivialise the suffering of the Irish poor by writing a satire rather than a serious book about their treatment by the British elite, as someone once described "A Modest Proposal" to me as the angriest book he had ever read.</p> <p>The British elite were later to distinguish themselves by making a modest contribution to killing off Irish children during the Irish potato famine of 1845 to 1852, when they exported crops from Ireland under armed guard so they could fetch a better price abroad, while starving Irish families dug their own graves and prepared to die, as they did in huge numbers (the famine possibly killed over a million of Ireland's just over 8 million people).</p> <p>As this historical website points out, even the Royal Navy was drafted in to guard boats laden with oats and grain from starving Irish peasants:</p> <p><a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm</a></p> <p>As I will prove again and again in this article, cold hearted and mean minded attitudes to poor people, for example opposition to welfare states, which need to be improved, not weakened or scrapped, as there are, for example, huge numbers of homeless people in Britain, and large numbers of roofless people, go hand in hand with cold hearted and mean minded racist attitudes to racial minorities ("The Bell Curve" is a perfect example of that fact), so it is not surprising that some of the most anti-racist British and American people of the Irish potato famine era, the Quakers, who, for 2 centuries were the biggest group in the white movement to abolish slavery in the British Empire and the US, raised a lot of money to feed victims of the Irish famine (£200,000, which is about £30 million in today's money), and set up soup kitchens around Ireland.</p> <p>Britain's homeless and roofless people are partly the result of not enough free detox and counselling help being given to alcoholics and hard drug addicts, who can end up spending their housing benefit on their addictions and getting evicted, and partly the result of the kind of policies that Charles Murray advocates: 32 years of social security cuts (for example, Dutch homelessness rocketed from roughly 10,000 people to roughly 80,000 people after Jan Peter Balkenende's coalition copied Margaret Thatcher's first social security cut, which stopped people being given benefit equal to most of their salary for the first 6 months of unemployment); 32 years of the social security system being made more and more authoritarian, which has led to more and more people having their benefits stopped; and Margaret Thatcher making housing benefit harder to get by making it a local council rather than DSS responsibility, which led to claims taking far longer to process, as local councils have to wait sometimes months for the DSS to confirm that a person is receiving a benefit, if that person does not get a letter from the DSS to take to their council which says that they are. That problem alone caused a huge rise in homelessness, as landlords became unwilling to wait months for their money, and either evicted people, or started putting "No DSS" on their adverts, to stop the unemployed renting their homes in the first place.</p> <p>As this University College Cork historical webpage points out, Lord Trevelyan, the 1840-1859 Assistant Secretary in the British Treasury Office who was in charge of dealing with the famine, thought very differently to the Quakers, as he believed that "The Great Hunger", as the famine is sometimes known in Ireland, was "a mechanism for reducing surplus population":</p> <p><a href="http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Charles_Edward_Trevelyan" rel="nofollow">http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Charles_Edward_Trevelyan</a></p> <p>As that webpage also points out, Lord Trevelyan blamed the character of Ireland's famine stricken people, the "green wogs" of the Northern Irish band Stiff Little Fingers' "White Noise" song about British racism, for their predicament, which makes him sound like Charles Murray, the big business spokesman who talks like a "Wall Street Journal" editorial, as he blames the poor ("the new rabble") for their predicament, not the people who are really to blame for the predicament of the poor: governments who are too incompetent to understand that as no economic system can guarantee jobs to everyone who needs them, it is an essential function of government to permanently guarantee people state funded living wage jobs, which ensures that people can lead dignified lives, and prevents recessions by ensuring that people always have money to spend (Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, who came 3rd behind George W. Bush and Al Gore in the 2000 US election, argued for guaranteeing people living wage jobs doing community work, so there is nothing new about my suggestion); employers who pay low wages, which ensures that relatively low amounts of money circulate in working class areas, which, as a result, have fewer job opportunities, and who move jobs to the cheapest labour country they can find, which can devastate towns based around one corporation, as Michael Moore's film "Roger and Me", which is about what happened to Flint, Michigan when General Motors moved jobs abroad showed; tax evasion by corporations and wealthy people; and the brutalising intergenerational cultural effects of slavery, hunger, poverty, poor housing, ugly urban environments, racism, pleasure denied lives, etc..</p> <p>As you would expect, "The Wall Street Journal" responded to the criticism of big business spokesman Charles Murray's "The Bell Curve", by printing a full page statement in support of the kind of ideas it expressed which was signed by various professors.</p> <p>You can read the statement here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1994WSJmainstream.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1994WSJmainstream.pdf</a></p> <p>Various sources link professors who signed the statement to the fascist Pioneer Fund.</p> <p>This Pioneer Fund webpage admits that the Fund gave grants to Hans Eysenck, Arthur Jensen, J. Philippe Rushton, and Thomas Bouchard:</p> <p><a href="http://www.pioneerfund.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pioneerfund.org/</a></p> <p>This article from the "Academic Questions" journal, reveals that Bouchard, Jensen, Linda Gottfredson, Robert Gordon, Garrett Hardin, Seymour Itzkoff, and Richard Lynn have all been given Pioneer Fund grants:</p> <p><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/53t368213r4168mh/" rel="nofollow">http://www.springerlink.com/content/53t368213r4168mh/</a></p> <p>This reprint of a Canadian newspaper article on the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism website, states that Jensen, Lynn, Eysenck, and Rushton have been given Pioneer grants, and that Rushton's "research" is cited on fascist websites:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/rushton.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/rushton.htm</a></p> <p>This article on the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American civil rights law firm who monitor hate groups like the Pioneer Fund, reveals that Eysenck, Gordon, Gottfredson, Itzkoff, Jensen, Lynn, Rushton, and R. Travis Osborne have been given Pioneer money:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund</a></p> <p>Finally, this second Southern Poverty Law Center article reveals that another professor who signed the "Wall Street Journal" statement, the late Raymond Cattell, believed in the "phasing out" of what he saw as inferior cultures:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,0" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,0</a></p> <p>Charles Murray is the origin of the "dependency culture" phrase which anti-welfare state right wing politicians use, so it is no surprise that Lord Trevelyan opposed efforts to feed the starving Irish on the grounds that they would become "habitually dependent" on the British Government, as this historical website points out:</p> <p><a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm</a></p> <p>Not surprisingly, like many British politicians of the 19th Century, Trevelyan was a free market fundamentalist supporter of Thomas Malthus, whose ideas are one of the key sources of the "scientific" racism tradition that the also pro-free market fundamentalist ideology Charles Murray is the most prominent modern exponent of, which is why Allan Chase wrote a book called "The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism" (Knopf, New York, 1977).</p> <p>Also not surprisingly, the original draft of the bible of free market fundamentalist thought, "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, argued that the free market regulates itself by the poor starving to death, as they did in Ireland, when the free market meant that the rich were free to export food they could get a better price for abroad, and the Irish poor were free to die, so, as you would expect, the free market fundamentalist Adam Smith Institute echoed Charles Murray and Lord Trevelyan by praising David Cameron's attack on the welfare state for "reducing people's dependency on benefits", and also argue for scrapping the minimum wage, as this BBC News story reveals:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12486158" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12486158</a></p> <p>So does the Adam Smith Institute pleasing David Cameron, whose anti-welfare state ideas derive from the neo-Malthusian writers Charles Murray and Gertrude Himmelfarb, who, in Murray's case, bases his ideas partly on "research" funded by the fascist Pioneer Fund, really want to copy Murray's scrap all social security benefits idea?</p> <p>As I have said, I will prove again and again in this article that cold hearted and mean minded racism, and the cold hearted and mean minded attitudes to poor people of, for example, welfare state opponents, are 2 sides of the same coin, and fascism is the ideology which is most notorious for perpetuating cold hearted and mean minded attitudes, so does David Cameron have little known fascist connections?</p> <p>We have already seen that Charles Murray is one source of David Cameron's thinking, and the Pioneer Fund, whose fascist views will be discussed shortly, is a source of Murray's ideas.</p> <p>David Cameron's big idea is "the Big Society", which basically means the cloud cuckoo land, and extremely dishonest notion that charities can replace a wrecked welfare state, and as I will now show, that distinctly Charles Murray sounding idea has fascist origins.</p> <p>According to this "Guardian" article which was reposted on the website of the think tank ResPublica, Phillip Blond, the founder of ResPublica, is a "huge influence" on the Big Society idea:</p> <p><a href="http://www.respublica.org.uk/media/phillip-blond-discusses-big-society-approach-guardian" rel="nofollow">http://www.respublica.org.uk/media/phillip-blond-discusses-big-society-approach-guardian</a></p> <p>So who is Phillip Blond?</p> <p>According to this BBC News story, he is "David Cameron's favourite thinker.":</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8381422.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8381422.stm</a></p> <p>According to this article in "Standpoint", a right wing magazine which was set up by David Cameron's Minister for Education, Michael Gove, Phillip Blond is a welfare state opponent who "is said to have the ear of senior Tories, including David Cameron and George Osborne.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/overrated-october-09-phillip-blond-jamie-whyte" rel="nofollow">http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/overrated-october-09-phillip-blond-jamie-whyte</a></p> <p>Incidentally, as this list of "Standpoint"'s writers shows, Charles Murray and George Osborne have both written for the magazine:</p> <p><a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/writers" rel="nofollow">http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/writers</a></p> <p>Also incidentally, despite the fact that Charles Murray's IQ ideas were inspired by fascist pseudoscience, "Standpoint" allowed Murray to write this article about education, which does not reflect well on Minister for Education Michael Gove, who is on "Standpoint"'s advisory board:</p> <p><a href="http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/510/full" rel="nofollow">http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/510/full</a></p> <p>Michael Gove is part of David Cameron's "inner circle, the so-called Notting Hill Set", according to this "New Statesman" article, so the "Standpoint" claim that not just David Cameron, but also other senior Conservatives, including George Osborne listen to Phillip Blond, may well be correct:</p> <p><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2011/02/education-secretary-gove" rel="nofollow">http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2011/02/education-secretary-gove</a></p> <p>Conservative spin would have us believe that Phillip Blond is a progressive thinker, but like Margaret Thatcher quoting St. Francis of Assisi, who had sympathy for the poor, as soon as she came to power, and began the usual Conservative Robin Hood in reverse redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich, that spin is a deception.</p> <p>This article on the website of the Chesterton Society, who are fans of the writer G. K. Chesterton, reveals that Phillip Blond admires Chesterton, and 2 other writers, Hilaire Belloc and Thomas Carlyle:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gkchesterton.org.uk/blog/?p=28" rel="nofollow">http://www.gkchesterton.org.uk/blog/?p=28</a></p> <p>What did those 3 writers believe in?</p> <p>In this book, G. K. Chesterton expressed his admiration for Mussolini:</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Works-G-K-Chesterton-Resurrection/dp/0898702720" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Works-G-K-Chesterton-Resurrection/dp/0898702720</a></p> <p>In this book, Hilaire Belloc also expressed his admiration for Mussolini:</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cruise-Nona-Hilaire-Belloc/dp/B0000CK4YV" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cruise-Nona-Hilaire-Belloc/dp/B0000CK4YV</a></p> <p>On this website of the Conservative Democratic Alliance, which is a far right Conservative Party group, Stuart Millson, who as I will show in a moment, left the Conservatives and joined the BNP, praises G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc:</p> <p><a href="http://conservativedemocraticalliance.blogspot.com/2008/06/too-english-to-be-true-stuart-millson.html" rel="nofollow">http://conservativedemocraticalliance.blogspot.com/2008/06/too-english-to-be-true-stuart-millson.html</a></p> <p>This "Searchlight" article mentions Millson leaving the Conservative Party for the BNP:</p> <p><a href="http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&#038;story=80" rel="nofollow">http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&#038;story=80</a></p> <p>In June 1945, "The Journal of Modern History" published an article entitled "Thomas Carlyle, prophet of fascism", which you can read here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/1871955" rel="nofollow">http://www.jstor.org/stable/1871955</a></p> <p>So all of the 3 writers who the Chesterton Society article said Phillip Blond admires, were either admirers of a fascist dictator, or a "prophet of fascism" (Carlyle died in 1881, so he died 41 years before Mussolini became the first fascist dictator, but the just cited article, which was written at a time when people were more aware of the evils of fascism than they are today, says that, "His views on social and political problems, divested of their moral appeal by the march of time, are revealed to be those of a fascist in their essential implications.")</p> <p>Phillip Blond also openly admitted in this "Guardian" article, that he is "a fan" of the Middle Ages, which was a pre-democratic, and hardly "progressive" era:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/30/toryconference.conservatives" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/30/toryconference.conservatives</a></p> <p>Free market fundamentalist James Bartholomew's already mentioned, pro-Charles Murray, pro-scrapping the welfare state book, "The Welfare State We're In", criticises the first King of England, Wales, and Ireland who came to power after the Middle Ages, Henry VIII (he reigned from 1509 to 1547, and the Middle Ages are regarded as having ended in 1500), for setting up a very rudimentary Poor Laws social security system, so does David Cameron think, like James Bartholomew, that Henry VIII, who executed many people who annoyed him, including of course his second and fifth wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, was too humane? How inhumane do you have to be to effectively think that a man like Henry VIII was too humane?</p> <p>Inhumane enough to support the ideas of the fascist magazine "Right Now!"?</p> <p>After all, on the website which James Bartholomew set up to promote his pro-destroying the welfare state book, he republished "Right Now!"'s glowing review of it, which you can read here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/05/right_now_magaz.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/05/right_now_magaz.php</a></p> <p>The review mentions the fact that James Bartholomew's idol is Margaret Thatcher, which, given his far right free market fundamentalist views, is hardly surprising.</p> <p>Margaret Thatcher and her ministers admired the 19th Century, and promoted "Victorian values", ignoring the slums, mass homelessness, mass poverty, poverty related mass adult and child prostitution, mass opium and alcohol addiction, infectious disease epidemics, and other evils of that also pre-democratic era, and Phillip Blond ignores roughly the same kind of problems during the Middle Ages (I say roughly, because, for example, the British East India Company, which, in its day, was the world's biggest corporation, had not yet come into existence, and had thus not yet paved the way for the modern heroin trade which is devastating British working class communities, by selling opium it had grown in India to the British public).</p> <p>Incidentally, Thomas Malthus worked for the opium trafficking BEIC, as this BBC historical webpage reveals, so it is no wonder that he spouted Charles Murray type big business propaganda:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/malthus_thomas.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/malthus_thomas.shtml</a></p> <p>Also incidentally, another free market fundamentalist guru, the late Milton Friedman, whose "monetarist", slash public spending ideas not surprisingly led to poverty and unemployment in Britain and the US when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to power and implemented them, openly said in an interview which you can watch on the second DVD which came with the Canadian anti-big business documentary "The Corporation", that he backed the legalisation of the hard drug trade, for free market reasons.</p> <p>Charles Murray describes Milton Friedman as a "giant" in this article, which is strange, as Murray claims to have the scrap the welfare state answer to the problems of working class communities, despite the fact that they have been devastated by the violence, burglaries, and other thefts by dealers and addicts which are the result of the heroin, cocaine, crack, amphetamine, and methamphetamine trade that Friedman expressed his support for in "The Corporation" DVD interview:</p> <p><a href="http://blog.american.com/?p=5432" rel="nofollow">http://blog.american.com/?p=5432</a></p> <p>I said "not surprisingly" in the paragraph before last, because, when Milton Friedman visited the first country to implement monetarism, fascist dictator General Pinochet's Chile, he declared that the economy was a success, despite the fact that children had started fainting in school from hunger, because Pinochet had scrapped the minimum wage, and savaged the welfare state (his attack on trades union rights did not help either).</p> <p>Another free market fundamentalist guru who inspired Margaret Thatcher, Friedrich von Hayek, also supported General Pinochet's fascist regime:</p> <p>"Personally I prefer a liberal [in the sense of the term "neo-liberal"] dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism."</p> <p>That Friedrich von Hayek statement was cited on this webpage of France's Institut Hayek, which features an English translation of an interview which the Chilean newspaper "El Mercurio" did with him on April 12, 1981:</p> <p><a href="http://www.fahayek.org/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=121" rel="nofollow">http://www.fahayek.org/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=121</a></p> <p>David Cameron has of course embarked on monetarist style spending cuts, which not only Milton Friedman, but also Friedrich von Hayek advocated, and, moreover, he has also taken the Conservatives out of the conservative group in the European Parliament, and into a far right group who, as this "Stop 'respectable fascism' now" "Guardian" article by Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott points out, put up a candidate for vice president of the European Parliament, Michael Kaminski, who had been a member of a Polish fascist group, and who opposed the President of Poland's national apology for an SS backed World War 2 Polish massacre of Polish Jews:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/31/conservative-fascism-kaminski-europe" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/31/conservative-fascism-kaminski-europe</a></p> <p>Furthermore, as this "Daily Mirror" story reveals, David Cameron responded to Edward McMillan-Scott's attempts to stop Michael Kaminski becoming leader of the Conservatives' new "respectable fascism" far right group by expelling him from the Party:</p> <p><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/01/cameron-in-fascism-rap-115875-21563039/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/01/cameron-in-fascism-rap-115875-21563039/</a></p> <p>David Cameron's new far right European Parliament group also includes admirers of less "respectable" fascists, the Waffen SS, as this "Daily Mail" article points out:</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194874/Camerons-new-EU-allies-support-Hitlers-Waffen-SS-Obamas-election-end-civilisation.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194874/Camerons-new-EU-allies-support-Hitlers-Waffen-SS-Obamas-election-end-civilisation.html</a></p> <p>If David Cameron does want to scrap all social security benefits, that would of course turn Britain into countries like Brazil and Jamaica, where extreme poverty has long led to rage generated high murder and other violent crime rates, and to high property crime rates. The police in both countries have been criticised by Amnesty International for responding to those high violent crime and property crime rates by forming death squads which execute criminals and suspected criminals, which, in the case of Brazil, often means its army of street children, who some businessmen pay the police death squads to shoot.</p> <p>As poverty and race are closely linked in Brazil, those children are primarily black.</p> <p>Armies of street children are of course an inevitable result of 19th Century "Victorian values", which is why the Sioux chief Sitting Bull was horrified to find when he toured the US in 1885 with the Wild West Show, that Americans allowed children to sleep on the streets, which is why he gave much of the money he earned from the Show to street children, and to adult beggars, who are of course another inevitable result of 19th Century Victorian values.</p> <p>This "Independent" article discusses homeless 19th Century London children who had to beg for food and prostitute themselves because of Victorian values:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-century-apart-children-face-poverty-trap-as-deep-as-ever-486301.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-century-apart-children-face-poverty-trap-as-deep-as-ever-486301.html</a></p> <p>Barack Obama famously described David Cameron as "a lightweight", so it is of course no surprise that he should take an interest in Charles Murray's stupid ideas, which are part of a racist pseudoscience tradition that is trying to make racism respectable by giving it a "scientific" basis, which will stop anti-racists refuting its ideas, so I will refute "The Bell Curve"'s IQ claims, which is not difficult, as they are inspired by such shallow thinking.</p> <p>Even if you accept that IQ test is the only measure of intelligence, which it isn't, as it only measures speed of thought, and not depth of thought, emotional intelligence, intuition, or the practical intelligence of someone who can fix a car that an academic would have no idea how to fix, and even if you accept Charles Murray's narrow minded, elitist view that high IQ people should be a separate caste above the rest of society, which ignores the vast range of human abilities like love, sex drive, kindness, compassion, and athleticism, Murray's and Richard Herrnstein's book is simply wrong.</p> <p>These 2 paragraphs from a "New York Times" article alone demolishes "The Bell Curve"'s racist pseudoscientific notion that black Americans, who tend to be much poorer than white Americans, have an average IQ which, the book implies, is 15 points lower than white Americans' average IQ for genetic reasons:</p> <p>"What happens in these rare instances of riches-to-rags adoption? To answer that question, two psychologists, Christiane Capron and Michel Duyme, combed through thousands of records from French public and private adoption agencies. “It was slow, dusty work,” Duyme recalls. Their natural experiment mimics animal studies in which, for instance, a newborn rhesus monkey is taken from its nurturing biological mother and handed over to an uncaring foster mother. The findings are also consistent: how genes are expressed depends on the social context.</p> <p>"Regardless of whether the adopting families were rich or poor, Capron and Duyme learned, children whose biological parents were well-off had I.Q. scores averaging 16 points higher than those from working-class parents. Yet what is really remarkable is how big a difference the adopting families’ backgrounds made all the same. The average I.Q. of children from well-to-do parents who were placed with families from the same social stratum was 119.6. But when such infants were adopted by poor families, their average I.Q. was 107.5 — 12 points lower. The same holds true for children born into impoverished families: youngsters adopted by parents of similarly modest means had average I.Q.’s of 92.4, while the I.Q.’s of those placed with well-off parents averaged 103.6. These studies confirm that environment matters — the only, and crucial, difference between these children is the lives they have led."</p> <p>You can read that "New York Times" article here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print</a></p> <p>Why should better off parents' children have much higher IQ scores? Because their parents are able to afford more nutritious food is one obvious answer.</p> <p>This "Biotech Week" article, "Malnutrition in early years leads to low IQ and later antisocial behavior", reveals the hardly surprising link between IQ and diet:</p> <p><a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-125724772.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-125724772.html</a></p> <p>Nutrition is the same reason that the world's richest nations dominate the top of world's tallest countries table.</p> <p>As this "Metro" news story reveals, the world's tallest people are the Dutch, followed by the Norwegians, while Americans, who were once the world's tallest people, are now significantly shorter than most Northern and Western European peoples, who like Americans, live in affluent nations, but unlike Americans, live in countries that are more financially egalitarian than the US, which means that a greater percentage of their parents can feed their children adequately:</p> <p><a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/35629-dutch-are-the-worlds-tallest-its-official" rel="nofollow">http://www.metro.co.uk/news/35629-dutch-are-the-worlds-tallest-its-official</a><br /> The scientists who did the study which "Metro" cited, argued that diet, and Europe's better welfare states were the reason that Americans are now shorter than people in some European countries.</p> <p>This "Scientific American" article, which, unlike "The Bell Curve", is based on science rather than pseudoscience, points out that partly because they spend far more government money on research and development (and partly, in my opinion, because their generous welfare payments encourage people to continue spending, rather than saving money when recessions happen), Scandinavian countries with high tax rates and high welfare spending have bigger budget surpluses, relative to GDP, and have less poverty, than the low tax, low welfare spending Anglo-Saxon countries and Ireland, which are more culturally influenced by American right wing economic ideas, for historical and language reasons, than Scandinavian countries, so it is bizarre that politicians should continue to be interested in any way in height stunting, IQ lowering American right wing economic ideas:</p> <p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-social-welfare-state" rel="nofollow">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-social-welfare-state</a></p> <p>"The Bell Curve" also fails to mention the fact that as this "USA Today" article, "Lead poisoning: the plague of America's inner cities", shows, American black children, who are more likely than their white counterparts to live in inner cities, are more exposed to IQ reducing lead pollution for various reasons, which is why, as the article points out, 90% of black inner city children aged 3 to 5 "have elevated blood-lead levels":</p> <p><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2602_v124/ai_17321004/" rel="nofollow">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2602_v124/ai_17321004/</a></p> <p>Unfortunately for racist far right writers like Charles Murray, unlike race, politics has a lot to do with IQ levels, which is why an Edinburgh University study which was cited at the end of this article in "The Scotsman", found that racist far right BNP voters have lower IQ levels than big 3 party, Green, SNP, and Plaid Cymru voters:</p> <p><a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Glenrothes-byelection-Activists-flood-in.4652904.jp" rel="nofollow">http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Glenrothes-byelection-Activists-flood-in.4652904.jp</a></p> <p>Moreover, a 2011 "Searchlight" report which was discussed in this "Guardian" article, found that the most pro-multiculturalism people in the UK, tend to be graduates, and that the most anti-multiculturalism people tend not to be graduates, as the unskilled tend to be the most anti-multiculturalism, which is further evidence that, as you would expect, lower IQ people are the more likely to be racist than higher IQ people:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/28/david-miliband-attacks-david-cameron" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/28/david-miliband-attacks-david-cameron</a></p> <p>So do those 2 studies prove that Charles Murray was a dunce for writing his racist book "The Bell Curve"?</p> <p>One example of Murray's stupidity which requires no comment, was revealed by a "Time" magazine article, "For Whom the Bell Curves":</p> <p>"...stranger still is his premise that the early '60s were a time when race was unimportant to the people who controlled [racially segregated American] schools and jobs, to say nothing of lunch counters."</p> <p>You can read that quotation here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981658-3,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981658-3,00.html</a></p> <p>American supporters of the "research" which "The Bell Curve" bases its racism on, argue that the book proves it is pointless to use affirmative action to get black and Hispanic people into better paid jobs, as they are stupid, pointless to spend money on educating them, as they are stupid, and pointless to give them social security payments, as that is subsidising the breeding of stupid people.</p> <p>For example, this "New York Times" article mentions the fact that "The Bell Curve" is used to justify not spending money on educating black people, and to justify not doing anything about black white income disparity, which affirmative action deals with:</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print</a></p> <p>Moreover, this "Economist" article points out that:</p> <p>"The new hereditarians [supporters of the IQ is primarily genetics related, not nutrition, lead poisoning, etc. related theory] were assailed, in print and in person; but they were not squashed. Their research won support from, and gave support to, conservative politicians keen to roll back the costly welfare policies of the post-1945 years. “The Bell Curve”, by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, published in 1994, is a powerful expression of this alliance. It argues that, since IQ is largely inherited, and people marry people like themselves, the difference between the intelligence of races and classes is liable to grow steadily wider.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/109401" rel="nofollow">http://www.economist.com/node/109401</a></p> <p>As I have said, Murray himself has long advocated scrapping the welfare state, as "Scientific American" magazine pointed out in their very scathing January 1995 review of his pseudoscientific book, "For Whom the Bell Curve Really Tolls: A tendentious tome abuses science to promote far-right policies":</p> <p>"The arguments stem from the same tradition of biological determinism that led, not so long ago, to compulsory sterilizations in the U.S. and genocide elsewhere. The notion is that individuals' characteristics are both essentially fixed by inheritance and immune to alteration by the environment. Efforts to help those who are unfortunate by reason of their genes are unlikely to be rewarded. Solutions, therefore, should include those Murray has long advocated: abolish welfare, reduce affirmative action and simplify criminal law." (p.14)</p> <p>You can read the review here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/sciam2.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/sciam2.htm</a></p> <p>Incidentally, "Scientific American" also pointed out in this abstract to the same review, that, "Charles Murray's and Richard Herrnstein's 'The Bell Curve' is riddled with errors in statistical methods and data interpretation":</p> <p><a href="http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Science-and-technology/For-whom-the-bell-curve-really-tolls-a-tendentious-tome-abuses-science-to-promote-far-right-policies.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Science-and-technology/For-whom-the-bell-curve-really-tolls-a-tendentious-tome-abuses-science-to-promote-far-right-policies.html</a></p> <p>In this already mentioned "Independent" interview with Charles Murray, "How I would tackle the new rabble", he thus not surprisingly reveals his anti-welfare state views, as he says that all social security payments to single parents should be scrapped:</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html</a></p> <p>The Pioneer Fund, which financed the "research" that "The Bell Curve"'s racist pseudoscientific conclusions were based on, was described in the "Sunday Telegraph" of March 12, 1989, as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics", and its first president, Harry Laughlin, who was one of the founders of the American Eugenics Society, which was set up in 1922, inspired the Nazis' eugenicist 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, which led to the forcible sterilisation of about 350,000 Germans, as this "New Statesman" article points out, so it is hardly surprising that the far right supporters of the "research" which the Pioneer Fund financed should have decided that "The Bell Curve" justified their decision to "roll back the costly welfare policies of the post-1945 years":</p> <p><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019" rel="nofollow">http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019</a></p> <p>Among the people who the Nazis forcibly sterilised, for racist reasons, were the mixed race children of white German mothers and African troops who were part of the French garrison which occupied the Rhineland area of Germany after World War One.</p> <p>Here is the transcript of an ABC Television "World News Tonight" report on the Pioneer Fund's links to the "research" which was cited in "The Bell Curve":</p> <p><a href="http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/049.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/049.html</a></p> <p>The former President of the Pioneer Fund, Harry Weyher, has this to say about the report:</p> <p>"On 22 November 1994 ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings was replete with somber voices speaking of a small penis being a "sign of superior intelligence", "eradicating inferior people", arresting blacks solely because of skin color, race superiority, and mentally ill Jews. This voice-over was spiced with references to Hitler and scenes of emaciated victims in Nazi death camps.":</p> <p><a href="http://www.pioneerfund.org/Weyher_pdf.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.pioneerfund.org/Weyher_pdf.pdf</a></p> <p>The Southern Poverty Law Center have this to say about the Pioneer Fund's fascist views, and its funding of racist pseudoscientists:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund</a></p> <p>Another SPLC article, by Professor Barry Mehler, who runs the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, reveals that the late American fascist party (National Alliance) leader William Pierce, who openly advocated killing all of the world's billions of non-white and Jewish people, as I explained in a 2009 Operation Black Vote article, agreed with Murray's pseudoscience opinion that black people are genetically less intelligent than white people, which illustrates how dangerous "scientific" racism can be:</p> <p>You can read my OBV article here:</p> <p><a href="http://operationblackvote.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/questiontime-for-bnps-fascist-links/" rel="nofollow">http://operationblackvote.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/questiontime-for-bnps-fascist-links/</a></p> <p>In his SPLC article, Professor Mehler wrote:</p> <p>"National Vanguard, the publication of former physics professor William Pierce...and his neo-Nazi National Alliance, runs a similar piece that concludes that "it is the Negro's deficiency...which kept him in a state of savagery in his African environment and is now undermining the civilization of a racially mixed America."</p> <p>"Ed Fields, a longtime, virulent racist, uses a review of Charles Murray's highly controversial book on IQ, The Bell Curve, to conclude that "over 50% of all Blacks test in the dull to retarded range.""</p> <p>You can read Professor Mehler's article here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,2" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,2</a></p> <p>The next paragraph of Mehler's article shows why the Pioneer Fund use "academic" pseudoscience to try to make racism respectable:</p> <p>"But it may be David Duke [a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who was also a Republican Party politician in the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1990 and 1992] who sums it up best. "No subject is more controversial than the nature versus nurture debate, and no subject has more direct consequences on society," he writes. "If heredity is shown to [be] the primary influence on intelligence rather than environment, then racial equality will crumble as a viable concept....""</p> <p>If academics like Charles Murray can make people believe that black and Hispanic people are genetically less intelligent than white people, racism can become a respectable viewpoint, which will also make the fascist ideas of people like the Ku Klux Klan, the Pioneer Fund, and William Pierce more respectable.</p> <p>This strategy has had some success. After all, Murray's book was issued by a major American publisher (who would doubtless not have issued a book which implied that white people are genetically less intelligent than black and Hispanic people), and Murray, who was not very well known before he wrote that book, has been allowed to write articles for 3 major American newspapers, "The New York Times", which is the most influential newspaper in the US, "USA Today", and "The Washington Post" (who would also doubtless not have allowed someone who implied that white people are genetically less intelligent than black and Hispanic people to write for them).</p> <p>This Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting article, "Racism Resurgent", is a detailed discussion of the interest which the mainstream American media took in "The Bell Curve" when it came out, and of the Pioneer Fund's fascist views, and support for the Third Reich, and the partly Third Reich inspired South African apartheid regime:</p> <p><a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1271" rel="nofollow">http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1271</a></p> <p>Charles Murray claims that the Pioneer Fund is not the same organisation as it was in the past, when it was linked to the Third Reich, but that is purely and simply a lie, as the Fund gave money to the late "Mankind Quarterly" contributor Glayde Whitney, who, 4 years after "the Bell Curve" was published, wrote the foreword to the racist and sexist 1998 autobiography of the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, who presented a paper at the Iranian Islamist tyranny's 2006 Holocaust denial conference.</p> <p>Moreover, Whitney was associated with the Holocaust denying Institute for Historical Review, who published this obituary of him:</p> <p><a href="http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v21/v21n1p13_whitney.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v21/v21n1p13_whitney.html</a></p> <p>This BBC News story mentions David Duke presenting a paper at the Iranian conference:</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6167695.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6167695.stm</a></p> <p>Walter Kistler, who has been the main donor to the Pioneer Fund in recent years, set up the Foundation for the Future, a science organisation whose events have attracted David Duke, according to this SPLC article:</p> <p><a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/summer/of-race-and-rockets" rel="nofollow">http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/summer/of-race-and-rockets</a></p> <p>Moreover, as this long "Albany Law Review" article about the Pioneer Fund and its Third Reich links points out, one year before "The Bell Curve" came out, the Pioneer funded Foundation for Human Understanding in Athens, Georgia issued an extremely racist book by Stanley Burnham whose ideas were very similar to "The Bell Curve":</p> <p><a href="http://www.albanylawreview.org/archives/65/3/TheAmericanBreed-NaziEugenicsandtheOriginsofthePioneerFund.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.albanylawreview.org/archives/65/3/TheAmericanBreed-NaziEugenicsandtheOriginsofthePioneerFund.pdf</a></p> <p>Burnham's "America's Bimodal Crisis: Black Intelligence in White Society", by Stanley Burnham, argues that "America's racial crisis is intractable and cannot be 'solved'" because it is caused by "genetic, not environmental" factors which cannot be solved by government spending. Burnham argues that black people have smaller brains than Europeans, which is why he argues that Africa's problems are the result of the "ignorance and irresponsibility of the African mind", and that black people's problems in other parts of the world are the result of "genetic deficiencies that they cannot remedy."</p> <p>As a result, he applauds colonial rule over Africa, and criticises decolonisation.</p> <p>The same "Albany Law Review" article cites Charles Murray's opinion that the Pioneer Fund gives money to "the most important scholars of intelligence", which is as inaccurate a statement as another Murray claim which is also cited in that article. Murray complains that Pioneer's critics attack the Fund for what it was involved in "50 and 60 years ago", when it was "allegedly associated with people of racist views". There is no "allegedly" about its Third Reich era association with "people of racist views", and it still is a fascist organisation, as its funding of the late Glayde Whitney proves.</p> <p>As "Racism Resurgent" explains, one of the Pioneer funded researchers who "The Bell Curve" cites, Professor Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, who is clearly one of Charles Murray's "most important scholars of intelligence", like the other Pioneer funded "researchers" he cites, who I will discuss shortly, has similar views to the late, already mentioned, pro-killing billions of non-white and Jewish people fascist party leader William Pierce:</p> <p>"Murray and Herrnstein describe Lynn as "a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences." Here's a sample of Lynn's thinking on such differences: "What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such peoples... Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less comp http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-112 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:28:26 +0000 bristol_citizen 112@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Local news website has run a piece on Saturday from a Black Bloc perspective:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bristol247.com/2011/03/30/bristol-blogger-the-ordinary-anarchists-and-why-they-went-to-london/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bristol247.com/2011/03/30/bristol-blogger-the-ordinary-anarchists-and-why-they-went-to-london/</a></p> <p>I'm sure they'd be open to other views of the day.</p> <p>Contact <a href="mailto:bristol_citizens@yahoo.co.uk">bristol_citizens@yahoo.co.uk</a> if you're interested in getting something published. </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-108 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:08:58 +0000 bristol_citizen 108@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Bristol City Council spends £10,000 on an aborted recruitment process for a new Deputy Chief Executive.</p> <p><a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost_of_aborted_recruitment_proc#incoming-157355" rel="nofollow">http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost_of_aborted_recruitment_proc#incoming-157355</a></p> <p>Post handed to existing member of staff instead. </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-107 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:05:34 +0000 bristol_citizen 107@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Outsourced management and a secret "HR Special Projects" Directorate?</p> <p>What's going on in Bristol City Council's HR department?</p> <p><a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/acting_director_hr_special_proje#outgoing-115522" rel="nofollow">http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/acting_director_hr_special_proje#outgoing-115522</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/service_director_hr_shared_trans#outgoing-115553" rel="nofollow">http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/service_director_hr_shared_trans#outgoing-115553</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-105 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:10:27 +0000 MattC 105@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Mike Luff on March 1, 2011 at 8:27 am.</p> <p>Hundreds march in Dorchester against the cuts <a href="http://bit.ly/gSkgPp" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/gSkgPp</a></p> <p>Angry demonstration at Islington Town Hall as people clash with cops: <a href="http://bit.ly/i3jR9q" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/i3jR9q</a></p> <p>Hundreds storm council chamber in Lambeth:<a href="http://bit.ly/fXdAuk" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/fXdAuk</a></p> <p>In Lancaster they recently buried the corpse of the Liberal Democrats <a href="http://bit.ly/gzcf6T" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/gzcf6T</a></p> <p>In Lewisham many protests took place against threatened cuts, culminating in a noisy clamour of pots and pans. See: <a href="http://bit.ly/ihplh2" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/ihplh2</a></p> <p>Campaigners from North Devon and Exeter Anti-Cuts Alliances protested outside and inside County Hall: <a href="http://bit.ly/gWFfjm" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/gWFfjm</a></p> <p>Peterborough Sixth Form Union along with Peterborough Against Cuts &amp; Tuition Fees (PACT) ran a bus visiting local centres to inform people about the cuts. See: <a href="http://www.psfu.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.psfu.org.uk/</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-104 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:06:23 +0000 MattC 104@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Mike Luff on March 1, 2011 at 8:25 am.</p> <p>Tell Brendan Barber ‘Stand up to the police’</p> <p>The metropolitan police are telling the TUC that they can’t handle all the coaches anticipated for the March 26 demonstration. The authorities say they are worried about the numbers coming to town! Please send a message to Brendan Barber urgently. For more info on this see here: <a href="http://bit.ly/h4vhdq" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/h4vhdq</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-101 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:51:04 +0000 bristol_citizen 101@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>From Twitter:</p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>RT @bristol_citizen MISFIRING FoI RESPONSE: a CONsultant has turned up in Bristol CC's HR dept who 'cuts' employees <a href="http://bit.ly/fUfd8n" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/fUfd8n</a> </p> <p>It seems BCC may be employing a privatised 'hit squad' on fat 'tax efficient' salaries at the top of their HR department to wield the knife and sack employees. There's more to come on this. </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-100 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:21:04 +0000 service user 100@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Following on from story about the Tory Tweeting Twit on South Glos there's another Tory Tweeting Twit in Hull unsurprisingly.<br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-12596872" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-12596872</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-99 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:29:48 +0000 admin 99@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Cameron’s agent protests against library closure<br /> The Mole<br /> Moans from his agent and congratulations from the National Front - all in a day’s aggravations</p> <p>Here's a turn-up for the books: David Cameron's own constituency agent in Witney, Oxfordshire, has joined the local protest against cuts in library funding in the county - a direct result of the coaliton's massive savings drive.<br /> Barry Norton, who is also leader of West Oxfordshire District Council, turned out on Saturday with 200 other locals to call on Oxfordshire County Council not to cut all funding to the library in North Leigh, a village just outside Witney.<br /> "I've used this facility for more than 50 years," Norton told his local paper, the Witney Gazette, "and I'm very happy to add my support to keep the libraries open.<br /> "I well understand the problems faced by the county council, nevertheless I have asked them to look again at their budgets and find the money needed to protect the library service, which plays a vital role in a modern, civilised society."<br /> Norton warned it will be "very difficult" to re-open the library if it closes. It is one of 20 out of 43 county libraries destined to be closed if volunteers cannot be found to run them.<br /> The news comes the week after Cameron said: "I would hope that no libraries would need to close, but this is a matter for the county council, and I do know that they are working with our communities to find the best way forward for all our libraries."<br /> Norton's protest will be about as welcome in Downing Street as the "congratulations" from Marine Le Pen, newly elected leader of the ultra-right National Front, on the Prime Minister's comments last weekend about the failures of multiculturalism.<br /> Le Pen, who has just taken over from her father as head of the NF, claimed Cameron had effectively endorsed her party's policies, adding: "I sense an evolution at European level, even in classic governments. I can only congratulate him."<br /> A Tory spokesman told the Daily Telegraph: "She has clearly failed to understand the Prime Minister's speech."<br /> Finding an answer to Barry Norton's library complaint will not be so easy. </p> <p>Read more: <a href="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/74392,news-comment,news-politics,david-cameron-agent-protests-against-library-closure-marine-le-pen-offers-congratulations#ixzz1F5GQJeAS" rel="nofollow">http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/74392,news-comment,news-politics,david-cameron-agent-protests-against-library-closure-marine-le-pen-offers-congratulations#ixzz1F5GQJeAS</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10&page=2#post-98 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:22:49 +0000 bristol_citizen 98@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>From Twitter:</p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>With budget out the way, Bristol's Lib Dems can now quietly start 'transformation' of education &amp; social care: <a href="http://bit.ly/gpks3u" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/gpks3u</a> (pdf) </p> <p>[The in-house homecare service and daycare will be targeted. The plan is to be published June/July 2011] </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-97 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:02:22 +0000 bristol_citizen 97@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>From Twitter (as at 1pm):</p> <p>@davemellows</p> <p>London students in Conservative conference EMA protest <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12587354" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12587354</a> #mar26 #ukuncut #demo2011 </p> <p>@noshockdoc</p> <p>#ukuncut natwest regent street closed :-) we need some superheros ! #ukuncut </p> <p>@agthompson</p> <p>Nat west in #Cardiff shut down #UKUncut #226demo <a href="http://twitpic.com/43y18n" rel="nofollow">http://twitpic.com/43y18n</a> </p> <p>@directreaction</p> <p><a href="http://yfrog.com/h39zazj" rel="nofollow">http://yfrog.com/h39zazj</a> teach in at Lloyds bank branch on Oxford Street from corporate watch. #ukuncut #solidarity</p> <p>@camdefended</p> <p>Have established a library and are having a poetry reading in the RBS on Trinity Street in Cambridge. Come join us now! </p> <p>@thewilk</p> <p>Just passed an occupied RBS in Islington #ukuncut well done Islington !</p> <p>@Cogixo</p> <p>#imc - #ukuncut vodafone shut on oxford st and guards outside boots as bail in teach in occupies lloyds tsb - <a href="https://imc.li/5jhnh" rel="nofollow">https://imc.li/5jhnh</a> </p> <p>@Gingnington</p> <p>#ukuncut barclays targetted in leeds, on to vodaphone</p> <p>@thedoublezero</p> <p>Lots of enlightened views at the @nottsuncut bail-in. @nottsuncut #ukuncut #nottsuncut #226demo </p> <p>@taboacid</p> <p>I don't think they wanted our custom, evicted from the bank...#226demo #Lewesuncut #Ukuncut</p> <p>@UKunts</p> <p>Can't wait to read The Guardians report on #ukuncut protests. Wonder if they will mention the one at Guardian HQ that was removed from site?</p> <p>@BmouthUnCut</p> <p>Banks in Bournemouth petrified of protests - nearly all had hired security guards lol #ukuncut </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-96 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:55:29 +0000 bristol_citizen 96@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>From Twitter (as at midday):</p> <p>@UKuncut</p> <p>#UKUncut have occupied Camden Natwest and transformed it into a crèche. Also, we have cakes! #226demo</p> <p>@thehelpmovement</p> <p>Tunbridge Wells NatWest art gallery with free champagne (sparkling water) #UKuncut #226demo @UKuncut <a href="http://twitpic.com/43x9x8" rel="nofollow">http://twitpic.com/43x9x8</a></p> <p>@vickxy</p> <p>Natwest bail in - canterbury @UKuncut <a href="http://yfrog.com/h3pcllmj" rel="nofollow">http://yfrog.com/h3pcllmj</a></p> <p>@whisperingdave</p> <p>Natwest in Peckham is now a homeless shelter @UKuncut @SouthwarkUncut #226demo #ukuncut </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-95 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:49:43 +0000 bristol_citizen 95@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>From Twitter:</p> <p>@LambethSOS</p> <p>On #march26, Lambeth SOS will form a feeder march from Kennington. There will be more details nearer the time. #demo2011 #Lambeth </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-94 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:46:10 +0000 bristol_citizen 94@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>From Twitter:</p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>Bristol City Council's Youth Service in Hartcliffe is reputed to be operating with just 3o% of its allocated staff due to vacancy management</p> <p>More info' on this or other vacancy management fiascos welcome. </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-93 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:29:43 +0000 bristol_citizen 93@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>More money well spent:</p> <p>BCC is spending a minimum of £360k this year on web redesign. All monies straight to French multinational outsource specialists Cap Gemini: </p> <p><a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bristol_city_council_web_procure#incoming-153593" rel="nofollow">http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bristol_city_council_web_procure#incoming-153593</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-92 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:38:24 +0000 bristol_citizen 92@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>The cuts are beginning to bite in the higher echelons - where the big salaries are trousered - of Bristol City Council.</p> <p>For some reason they're employing two Directors of HR:<br /> <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/director_hr#outgoing-112563" rel="nofollow">http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/director_hr#outgoing-112563</a></p> <p>Plenty more on this story still to come ... </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-90 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:18:36 +0000 MattC 90@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>This morning's Radio Bristol phone-in about the cuts with Robin Clapp (BADACA Press Secretary) and Steven Williams MP (LibDem, Bristol West)... </p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dv9dv" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dv9dv</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-89 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:16:51 +0000 MattC 89@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>...And here's some press reports on the BCC lobby:</p> <p>Evening Post:<br /> <a href="http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Police-called-Bristol-City-Council-approves-biggest-cuts/article-3258247-detail/article.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Police-called-Bristol-City-Council-approves-biggest-cuts/article-3258247-detail/article.html</a></p> <p>BBC:<br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-12549410" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-12549410</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-88 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:12:16 +0000 MattC 88@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Here's a couple of videos from yesterday's lobby of Bristol City Council's budget meeting posted by the Evening Post:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFqq43otQg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFqq43otQg</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCI-LrRXnU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCI-LrRXnU</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-85 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:05:01 +0000 bristol_citizen 85@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Test to see if you can post youtube on here:</p> <p>[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpWW5wYpy-E&amp;feature=related]</p> <p>&lt;youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpWW5wYpy-E&amp;feature=related&gt; </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-83 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:26:34 +0000 bristol_citizen 83@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Film footage from Saturday courtesy of Twitter:</p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>RT @uweagainstcuts <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpWW5wYpy-E&#038;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpWW5wYpy-E&#038;feature=related</a> talks from Bristol's demo 19/02</p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>RT @uweagainstcuts <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBSVGvYbzaA&#038;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBSVGvYbzaA&#038;feature=related</a> uncut protest and conga line Bristol :-) </p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>RT @uweagainstcuts police brutality on yesterdays demo. pls RT <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjTXFTHho9A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjTXFTHho9A</a> #solidarity </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-56 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:02:57 +0000 bristol_citizen 56@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>From Bristol Indymedia:</p> <p>Thousands (!!!) Demonstrate Against the Cuts</p> <p><a href="http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/703415" rel="nofollow">http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/703415</a></p> <p>For more photos from the demo go to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17251154@N00/sets/72157625962254821/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/17251154@N00/sets/72157625962254821/</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-55 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:46:36 +0000 bristol_citizen 55@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Just in:</p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>RT @uweagainstcuts AT LEAST 3 ANTI-CUTS ACTIVISTS NICKED IN BRISTOL! SOLIDARITY DEMO ASAP ' trinity rd station <a href="http://tinyurl.com/6g9cr3f" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/6g9cr3f</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-54 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:32:14 +0000 bristol_citizen 54@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Two early reports on the march from BBC and the Bristol 24/7 website:</p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>"Protesters against council cuts march through Bristol" <a href="http://bbc.in/fGgGUa" rel="nofollow">http://bbc.in/fGgGUa</a></p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>RT @bristol247 Hundreds take to the streets of Bristol to protest against cuts. Report and slideshow <a href="http://ow.ly/3ZCus" rel="nofollow">http://ow.ly/3ZCus</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-50 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:16:20 +0000 bristol_citizen 50@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p><strong>The Power of Twitter</strong></p> <p>On Wednesday we Tweeted:<br /> @BrisCuts</p> <p>Bristol City Council announce intention to cut 500 fixed term contract jobs by April: <a href="http://bit.ly/fB5k2t" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/fB5k2t</a> (pdf) </p> <p>Today it's in the E Post!</p> <p><a href="http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/600-jobs-face-review-163-28m-cuts/article-3240539-detail/article.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/600-jobs-face-review-163-28m-cuts/article-3240539-detail/article.html</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-43 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:35:11 +0000 MattC 43@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Michael Chanan's video blog: Teachers and Learners</p> <p>FILM: Lecturers go on strike in Bristol.</p> <p>The repercussions of the cuts in Higher Education are being felt in Bristol, where lecturers at the University of the West of England (UWE) have been forced to take strike action over threats to staffing. Michael reports on the strike and finds out what students who supported it think about the situation.</p> <p><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/02/film-strike-uwe-bristol" rel="nofollow">http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/02/film-strike-uwe-bristol</a> </p> http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/topic.php?id=10#post-38 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:33:17 +0000 bristol_citizen 38@http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/ <p>Today on Twitter:</p> <p>@BrisCuts</p> <p>Bristol City Council announce intention to cut 500 fixed term contract jobs by April: <a href="http://bit.ly/fB5k2t" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/fB5k2t</a> (pdf) </p>