[political-research] Re: What's wrong with conspiracy theories?

2007-07-09 Thread LeaNder
For all the Islamists among us the German minister of the interior wants to add a new element of offense: conspiracy.Conspiracy = Verschwoerung http://news.google.de/news?hl=dened=deq=Sch%C3%A4uble+Verschw%C3%B6ru\ ngbtnG=News-Suche He would also love to have targeted killings. This means that

[political-research] It may well be that the key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: It may well be that the key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings via 911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News by Reprehensor on Jul 09, 2007 Lt.-Col. Doug

[political-research] Re: It may well be that the key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings

2007-07-09 Thread tim_howells_1000
Sean McBride wrote: Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, chair of the war studies program at the Royal Military College in Kingston [Ontario] says this about bolstering morale for the War on Terror, as reported by Andrew Chung of the Toronto Star. It may well be that the key to bolstering Western

[political-research] The ongoing journalistic scandal at the New York Times

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
[neocon op The New York Times] Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: The ongoing journalistic scandal at the New York Times via Salon: Glenn Greenwald by Glenn Greenwald on Jul 09, 2007 The NYT Public Editor documents that the paper's war coverage today is unchanged when compared to its

[political-research] Israeli/neocon op New York Times Iraq War

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
The New York Times (and the rest of the mainstream media) played a much more important role in engineering the Iraq War than any oil company. Now the Times is desperately trying to wash its hands of the mess it helped to create, while frantically searching for scapegoats. Quite a sleazy

Re: [political-research] Re: The Root Cause of Anti-Semitism

2007-07-09 Thread tigerbengalis
tim_howells_1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are areas where the general public has moved far ahead of academia. Most people are very comfortable now with the idea that there are genetic and biological bases for human behavior, and accept this as established

Re: [political-research] Re: The Root Cause of Anti-Semitism

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
I read New Scientist, Science, Nature and Scientific American regularly, and my impression is that there is a major trend in the scientific world linking human behavior and personality traits with genetic factors. You haven't noticed this? Do you disagree? This area of research could prove

[political-research] Behavioral Genetics (Searching for Genes that Explain Our Personalities)

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
[Behavioral genetics is very mainstream these days -- unless you consider the American Psychological Association to be on the fringe.] http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep02/genes.html APA Monitor on Psychology Volume 33, No. 8 September 2002 APA forms working group on genetics research issues

Re: [political-research] Re: The Root Cause of Anti-Semitism

2007-07-09 Thread tigerbengalis
Sean Is your opposition to ethnocentrism linked genetic factors? Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read New Scientist, Science, Nature and Scientific American regularly, and my impression is that there is a major trend in the scientific world linking

Re: [political-research] Re: The Root Cause of Anti-Semitism

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
It might well be -- I wouldn't be surprised to discover that most aspects of human behavior, personality and temperament are strongly influenced by genetic factors. Why should this be so difficult to believe? Why are some fruit flies more adventurous, more possessed of the pioneering spirit,

[political-research] Rick Santorum, Christian Zionism and False Flag Terrorism

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
Rick Santorum, Christian Zionism and False Flag Terrorism Background on Rick Santorum, the Christian Zionist who just assured us with great confidence that America would soon be the victim once again of devastating terrorist attacks: [begin quote] A Wall Street Journal piece described the

[political-research] The Litvinenko Mystery Thriller: A Primer of Conspiracy Theories

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: The Litvinenko Mystery Thriller: A Primer of Conspiracy Theories via Edward Jay Epstein's Web Log by Edward Jay Epstein on Jul 09, 2007 The proliferation of conspiracy theories deserves a taxonomy THE FIRST QUESTION: HOW DID LITVINENKO DIE? I. The

Re: [political-research] Re: The Root Cause of Anti-Semitism

2007-07-09 Thread tigerbengalis
Actually, as far as I understand, ALL aspects of human behavior, personality and temperament are ENTIRELY the outcome of genetic factors. Genetic factors being understood here as that which puts together a human being. All its saying is that we are who/what we are. You seem to be leaning

Re: [political-research] Behavioral Genetics (Searching for Genes that Explain Our Personalities)

2007-07-09 Thread tigerbengalis
Actually, I very much consider the American Psychological Association to be on the fringe, at least scientifically speaking. I'm not a science worshipper, and find plenty problematic with Big Science, but no one in the scientific community would consider the APA terribly relevant to scientific

Re: [political-research] Behavioral Genetics (Searching for Genes that Explain Our Personalities)

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
Ok -- what's wrong with this particular article? tigerbengalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I very much consider the American Psychological Association to be on the fringe, at least scientifically speaking. I'm not a science worshipper, and find plenty

Re: [political-research] Re: The Root Cause of Anti-Semitism

2007-07-09 Thread tigerbengalis
Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elucidate: you are saying that there is a genetic basis for diseases like Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia among certain ethnic groups, but there is a not a genetic basis for mental and personality traits among certain

Re: [political-research] Behavioral Genetics (Searching for Genes that Explain Our Personalities)

2007-07-09 Thread tigerbengalis
There's nothing wrong with the article, any more than there is nothing wrong with an article with an article from 2002 promoting a new rock group that's being touted as the next supergroup, but which winds out disappearing from public view within a few years. Same with the attempts by Hamer

Re: [political-research] Behavioral Genetics (Searching for Genes that Explain Our Personalities)

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
Behavioral genetics is yesterday's flash in the pan rock star? I doubt it. There is a huge momentum in this field that will carry it forward for decades and centuries to come. It is possible that we will learn how to program life forms with the same skill that we now create computer

Re: [political-research] Re: The Root Cause of Anti-Semitism

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
[begin quote] Sean, if you can consider a white fascist like Macdonald--who represents the dominant ethnic group in America to be less dangerous than ideologues who happen to be member of a tiny minority group, and who (please try to wrap your brain around this) do not speak for that minority

Re: [political-research] Re: The Root Cause of Anti-Semitism

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
You're extremely emotional about Jewish subjects, aren't you. For instance, do you find discussion about the role of the Israel lobby in dominatingAmerican Mideast policy, and helping to create a foreign policy catastrophe in Iraq, to be personally threatening? One definitely gets that

Re: [political-research] Washington Times

2007-07-09 Thread Sean McBride
If white ethnic nationalists had heavily infiltrated the White House, and if George W. Bush was a white ethnic nationalist, this article might be scary. But they haven't. Instead, George W. Bush is a Christian Zionist, and neocons (Jewish ethnic nationalists) have heavily infiltrated the