Monday, October 23, 2023

The Rulers of Rubble - The real Gaza ground invasion - Part 1

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A vast array of media talking heads wait with bated breath for an expected IDF invasion of the Gaza Strip, and seem perturbed by the delay. The picture drawn in some quarters seems to envisage the big kosher machine, covered by artillery and air power, lumbering forward block by block, clearing buildings, flushing out tunnels, rescuing hostages, and so on. It is a Hamaz dream. Welcome Israeli friends to our extensive tunnel network, our fulsome spread of mines and IEDs, our suicide bombers rushing out in sacrificial strikes, and our cheery ambush and sniper attacks from said tunnels, buildings and “the usual” bunkers, pillboxes and fortified strong-points. Such a “mano-a-mano” scenario will play well with the “Arab Street”: once again, the forces of the faithful are standing up to the evil ones.

 

In the meantime, Hezbollah launches “the usual” barrages of rockets on to Israeli territory in support, and with diversionary intent. Whether martyrdom is the goal, or a body count that will make the Israelis both bleed and blink from the casualties, or both, the street would understand and cheer, and such an outcome is expected to lead to a ceasefire on somewhat favorable terms- such as a massive prisoner swap, pressure from the Western and Arab powers to put the brakes on Israel, and an end to the current Israeli blockade over Gaza. We have already seen this movie before. Another plus for Hamas that its standing might be enhanced vis a vis the rival PA (Palestinian Authority) on the West Bank. Or not, since a weakened or devastated Hamas strengthens the PA alternative.

 


 Various media talking heads quite rightly speculate on the difficulties facing a ground offensive. Most of Hamas leaders have gone underground, but no doubt there are some front-line fighters who are anxious, indeed eager for such a confrontation. They have a number of legitimate grievances from their perspective, and this confrontation is what they were warned about, this is what they trained for. Who can blame them? Hey, if they are going to die anyway- what better way than in battle, making their enemy pay a heavy price?  This is no irrational fantasy - they are not expecting to defeat the IDF physically. The goal is to create a high enough enemy body count so that (a) outside intervention eventually limits the pain, and (b) political gains, on various dimensions can be claimed. This is what Hezbollah has done in its various confrontations, and they claimed “victory” over Israel, in that the IDF eventually withdrew from the zone of confrontation in Lebanon. But will it be a "victory?"


The Japanese had a partially similar idea during WWII, hunkered down in their isolated island garrisons, only there was no UN, Arab League. United States, or world opinion to bail them out. They perhaps are the only fighters who consistently achieved true martyrdom. Even the tough Russians surrendered by the millions, and post-WWII, Arab armies have collapsed relatively quickly, even when they had superior numbers and plenty of reasonable quality fighting equipment. Not so the men of Nippon. As British Sir General William Slim once famously said of the Japanese: “Everyone talks about fighting to the last man and the last bullet. In World War II, the Japanese soldier was the only one who did.”

 

 

Given the undoubted fighting spirit and sacrificial bravery of some Hamas militants, why on earth should the IDF play their enemy’s attritional “bleed and blink” game? Some have pointed to Hezbollah threats on the northern border as a reason for an IDF ground offensive delay. This is certainly a factor, but not of strategic significance. Secondary forces and airpower could be allocated to contain that threat without seriously impacting the main show in Gaza. More to the point is a high enough payoff the Israeli public will accept for the difficulties incurred when getting bogged down in the Gaza tarpit. Hence the IDF may delay any massive ground movement until a “rubbleization” interval, in which Hamas’ military, material and financial infrastructure, along with important manpower resources, built up at such sacrifice over the years is degraded or destroyed,

 

This scenario will involve targeting Hamaz command, control and communication nodes and leaders with precision fires: missiles, drones, “smart” bombs keyed to laser pinpointing, and accurate strikes by artillery. These fires will also expand to target Hamas infrastructure: roads, bridges, sewer systems, buildings, embedded bunkers tunnels and strongpoints, and other structures clearly used to shield military assets. It is hoped that demilitarized humanitarian safe zones and corridors should be expanded for civilians, and medical facilities and personnel are not targeted as charged by Amnesty International and the Goldstone Report in previous operations..

 

This approach essentially leaves Hamas with a lot of rubble to rule over and “administer.” One wonders what it will have gained significantly, after the dust settles. Stirring speeches of defiance- yes. Surviving tunnels and bunkers- of course. But given the civilian and material cost, is it worth it? Another end result of this latest conflict is that the Israeli blockade of Gaza is unlikely to be lifted anytime soon, nor will its economic crisis improve dramatically. In 2012, Qatari emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, visited Gaza and gave Hamas $400 million in aid. It is unlikely such largesse will be left unmolested by Israel this time around. Rather than improve the livelihood of its people, Hamas has essentially doomed them to another decade of deprivation and poverty, when there were better, less costly options available. The sad, searing testimonies of Gaza civilians caught in the crossfire (see https://www.btselem.org) more than illustrate the case, as once safe, thriving neighborhoods are transformed to rubble.

 

Readers or collectors of the old Marvel Comics “Supervillian Team-up” series of the 1970s would recall the first issue where the sorcerer and master of alchemy, Diablo, seeks to force Doctor Doom to join him in a plan of world domination, by using an old time machine of Doom. The stick behind the carrot is a hostage scenario- a former girlfriend of Doom is held hostage by Diablo. Doom pretends to be interested initially, but subtly alters the time machine’s controls, then uses the time gained to rescue his ex, and attack the alchemist. Angered by Doom’s eventual rejection of his plan, Diablo seeks to banish the master of mayhem into the time-stream, but Doom’s “reverse alteration” of the time-machine instead sends Diablo himself  hurtling into the void. The sorcerer materializes far into earth’s future, on to a devastated rubble-filled earth, where he truly will have obtained his fondest wish, to be earth’s ruler, forevermore.

 It could be argued that even this allegory still leaves Hamas in control of large swathes of ruined Gaza “earth”, and that they have not been totally defeated or liquidated. This is true, but for the past several years the IDF has not attempted any apocalyptic final campaign in Gaza, but instead a “mowing the grass” strategy. This means suppression of periodic outbreaks, with success being measured by periods of comparative calm, or low level nuisance activity, until the next outbreak. Then the “grass” is once again “mowed” for the next cycle of suppression and relative calm.

Where’s the proof of concept you ask? Just look at the last few confrontations. In 2014, Israel passed on any substantial mass ground invasion during its “Protective Edge” operation, and also proved that its much touted aversion to casualties was overblown, provided that the IDF achieved tangible results against its enemies. As one analysis puts it:

 "On a political level, Protective Edge prompted Israeli policymakers to rethink Israel’s sensitivity to casualties. As one Israeli defense correspondent explained, Israel accepted the fact right after its birth that military casualties were—while tragic—the necessary price of its survival, but became increasingly averse to casualties over the decades.

            Protective Edge proved this assumption about casualty sensitivity incorrect. Israel endured 72 casualties, a significant number given its small population of eight million people and far more than it suffered in Pillar of Defense or Cast Lead, and yet it fought on. Indeed, one senior Israeli policymaker recounted, “Families of the wounded and dying  called on the prime minister to continue operations. They felt Israel was justified, which was why people were in favor of the operation despite the casualties.”3 In the end, the Israeli public tolerated military casualties, provided the IDF achieved tangible results. As one senior Israeli policymaker noted, “Israel needs to feel it achieved something, and then the public won’t care about the Israeli casualties. It very much depends on the results of the operation.”

--FROM: Cohen et al. From Cast Lead to Protective Edge: Lessons From Israel’s Wars in Gaza. RAND Corporation 2017

 


Tunnel? What tunnel homes?

 A less than satisfying scenario? Sure, and a peaceful settlement would be better, even given the implacable hatred and fear on both sides. But from a military IDF perspective, standoff attacks, whether by long-range assets or of the "surround and pound" variety where ground forces serve as blocking or holding elements, may be a lot cheaper than mass casualties in a hurried ground invasion to satisfy public clamor. What about the hostages? Well considering it took FIVE YEARS and a prisoner swap of over 1,000 Palestinians to get back ONE Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, captured in 2006, why do so many people expect some sort of quick resolution? The hostages taken this time around are likewise unlikely to be released anytime soon. From the perspective of the ordinary Palestinian civilian of course, the scene looks much different.


And what would a ground invasion look like if it eventually happens? Don’t look for a lumbering street by street, block by block slogging operation. Most likely the IDF will drive quickly to seize certain key areas and logistical/communication nodes, and then work OUTWARD from there to tackle only the most significant zones in detail. Relatively small Special Forces can also be used as "ferret teams" to finger/ferret out opposition hideouts as targets, then sit back while "surround and pound" air and ground firepower is brought to bear, lessening IDF casualties, though not necessarily civilian ones. Relatively small combined arms raiding teams made up of armor, engineer and infantry elements, covered by lethal air and artillery, will also be deployed to hit specific objectives hard, rather than use lumbering street by street clearance columns. Will there be some hard fighting? Of course, but not every single tunnel or militant in Gaza does not have to be engaged. Expect significant use of the smaller forces above, not the Russian style saturation bombing and artillery “three-all” mayhem (burn all, kill all destroy all) that it executed in Chechnya to crush the opposition there. Just as in the “rubbleization” phase, Hamas is kept hunkered down, penned into wastelands of stone and dirt. Who needs to expend mass casualties to dig them out? The Israelis have Hamas just where they want them- with the Hamas rocket inventory exhausted save for last gasp salvos, unable to replenish military supplies or even sufficient civilian tonnage. 

 Does this mean that Hamas will fold up and surrender? Unlikely. And will they still maintain some semblance of a force or movement in various bunkers, cellars, tunnels and ruined buildings breathing defiance against their enemy? Certainly. They may even claim that their digging in amidst the rubble deters the IDF from mass attack. Indeed. But as shown above, why would the IDF play the building by building, warren by warren clearance game, when their foes can be killed, buried under increasing tons of dirt, or otherwise neutralized, where the best they can do is hunker down in static positions yielding weak combat power? The Hamas fighters, like the Japanese penned into a relatively small areas, are at a big disadvantage, and lack even the substantial artillery and firepower assets the Japanese defenders dug in with. Nor like the Japanese, can they be reinforced with fresh bodies, now that the battle has been joined, and they are being worked over by air, artillery, and armored firepower.

 

In the Pacific War the US learned to bypass numerous well defended Japanese-held islands and leap to areas offering more advantageous conditions for the next advance. The bypassed areas were left to "wither on the vine"- albeit with a steady diet of airpower and potential threat of sea invasion. In the Gaza case, its not "wither on the vine" but "rubble in place." The much talked about "ground invasion" may thus just be an ominous threat "in being," diverting media attention and  demonstrating Israeli "restraint." Meanwhile the real lethal work is being done by the "rubble specialists" in Gaza. This of course does not rule out the mass introduction of ground forces, but as shown above, such mass movement is not necessary for Israel to accomplish many important objectives, including a territory wide smashing of Hamas and its assets, a gift and perfect excuse handed to it by Hamas leadership. 

Did the Israelis not realize that their long blockade of the territory would yield negative results absent some sort of settlement? Did the  deep-thinkers of Hamas not expect a massive, violent counter-reaction by Israel to mass attacks and mass kidnappings against their citizens, a reaction over and above the limited operations of Cast Lead (2008) and Protective Edge (2014)?? Thanks to such Hamas leadership decisions, the Israelis once again enjoy the upper hand in the attritional competition between the peoples. The "bargaining chip" hostages are actually a liability - they provide a convenient rationale for prolonging multiple agonies. The Israelis have not only devastated precious infrastructure, cowed the civilian population, and crippled important sets of fighting manpower, but now have yet another excuse to keep Gaza on a leash for years, allowing in only a trickle of material, to maintain subsistence levels. How is this outcome supposed to have benefitted the ordinary people of Gaza?

But perhaps ordinary people are merely pawns and cannon fodder to sacrifice for other egos and agendas. 
Yes, in due time, the diplomatic talking heads may eventually arrange for multiple “ceasefires” until the next round. Stay tuned.. In the meantime, Hamas, is kept hunkered down amidst its sad caliphate of rubble.

 

                                                                                                                               

 

LINKS TO OTHER POSTS:
 comic clips courtesy of wikipedia.dk

Rulers of Rubble- The Gaza ground invasion-  Part 1
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-rulers-of-rubble-why-idf-is-not.html

https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2022/06/james-patterson-was-right-about-racism.html
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2022/06/critical-race-theory-debunked-part-2.html
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2022/05/critical-race-theory-debunked-white.html

Biden won, get over it, but can he breakout in Covid era?
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/686085999190798340/6179060851903968774
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2020/11/teflon-dons-coating-in-trouble-can-he.html

The Teflon Don may reap benefit from Floyd protest violence and looting
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2020/06/teflon-don-may-see-fulsome-benefits.html

The Teflon Don- Covid-era approval rating may signal November success 
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-teflon-don-covid-era-approval.html

Would a Biden win be any big loss for Republicans?
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2020/04/would-biden-win-be-any-big-loss-for.html

Tchalla's "Wakanda First" philosophy looks a bit like Donald Trump's "America First" approach
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2019/01/tchallas-wakanda-first-philosophy-looks.html

Significant EEOC Race-Color Cases- Covering Private and Federal Sectors 
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post.html

'AsiaRate' Lawsuit against Harvard shows dirty little secret- white quotas used at elite universities
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2018/06/asiarate-lawsuit-against-harvard-shows.html

Some gays find welcome home in the 'alt-right' as nationalist organizations step up recruitment
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2018/05/some-gays-find-welcome-home-in-alt.html

Racial discrimination is alive and kicking in employment, housing and credit markets
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2017/07/racial-discrimination-is-alive-and.html 

Sowell 3- new data shows backward tropical evolution? Wealth and Poverty- An International Perspective in Trump era
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2017/07/sowell-3-new-data-shows-backward.html

Sowell 2- Wealth, Poverty and Politics- International Perspective - Trump era to bring these issues into sharper focus?
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2017/07/sowell-2-wealth-poverty-and-politics.html

Sowell- Liberal intellectuals and hard questions about race differences- Trump era may force them to focus?
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2017/07/sowell-liberal-intellectuals-and-hard.html


Trump properties discriminated against black tenants lawsuit finds
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2016/07/trump-properties-discriminated-against.html

Stealing credibility- Dinesh D'souza has prison epiphany- after hanging with the homies- Hallelujah Hilary!
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2016/05/straining-credibility-dinesh-dsouza-has.html

Shame on you, and your guilt too- A review of Shelby Steele's 'Shame'
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-review-wealth-poverty-and-politics.html


http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2016/04/go-with-flow-3-more-dna-and-cranial.html

Go with the flow 2- African gene flow into Europe in various eras
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/11/go-with-flow-2-african-gene-flow-into.html

DNA studies show African movement to Europe from very ancient times
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/dna-studies-show-african-movement-to.html

Guilt3- Why the "white privilege industry" is not all there
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/guilt3-why-white-privilege-industry-is.html

Guilt2- Media collaborates with guilt mongers - or how to play the white victim card
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/guilt2-media-collaborates-with-guilt.html

How Obama plays on white guilt
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-obama-plays-upon-white-guilt-hilary.html

Blacks oppose free speech- more ramshackle "research" from "the East"..
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/08/blacks-oppose-free-speech-ramshackle.html

Hands off the Confederate flag
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/06/hands-off-confederate-flag.html

Despite much more wealth than blacks, whites collect about the same rate of welfare and are treated more generously
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/06/despite-much-more-wealth-than-blacks.html

African "boat people" ushering in European demographic decline
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/05/african-boat-people-ushering-in.html



The forgotten Holocaust- King Leopold's "Congo Free State" - 10 million victims
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-forgotten-holocaust-10-million-in.html

Are violent minorities taking over California and the West?
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/04/are-violent-minorities-taking-over.html

Presidential hopeful Ben Carson meets and Greeks
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/03/presidential-hopeful-ben-carson-meet.html

Contra "ISIS" partisans, there have been some beneficial effects of Christianity
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/03/contra-isis-partisans-there-are-some.html


The social construction of race, compared to biology- Graves
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-social-construction-of-race_8.html

Why HBD or hereditarianism lacks credibility
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-hbd-or-hereditarianism-lacks.html

Leading Scientists criticize hereditarian claims
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/leading-scientists-criticize.html

Thai me down - Thais fall behind genetically related southern Chinese, Tibetans below genetically related East Asians like Koreans and other Chinese 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/thai-me-up-thai-me-down.html

Time for liberals to respect "the south" ... in a way of speaking.. the south of Egypt that is..
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/time-for-liberals-to-respect-south-in.html

Irony 2: touted High IQ "G-men" cannot reproduce themselves 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/07/irony-2-higher-iqs-correlated-with_25.html

Unz and Sowell: Unz debunking Lynn's IQ and Wealth of Nations. Sowell debunking the Bell Curve
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/07/unz-and-sowell-unz-debunking-lynns-iq.html

Irony 1: touted High IQ types are more homosexual, more atheist, and more liberal (HAL)
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/06/irony-high-iqs-produce-more-atheists.html



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http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/06/elite-white-universities-discriminate.html

Deteriorating state of white America
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/05/deteriorating-state-of-white-america.html


Racial Cartels (The Affirmative Action Propaganda machine- part 2
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-affirmative-action-propaganda.html

Hereditarian's/HBD's "Great Black Hope"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/04/blog-post.html

The Balance sheet

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http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html


We need "rational racism"- Convicted felon Dinesh Dsouza becomes his own test case
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-need-rational-racism-proponent.html

The Affirmative Action Propaganda Machine- part 1
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-affirmatve-action-propaganda.html

Two rules for being "really" black- no white wimmen, no Republican


http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/to-be-really-black-you-cant-have-white.html

The Axial age reconsidered
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-axial-age-reconsidered.html

Cannibal seasonings: dark meat on white
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/12/i.html

"Affirmative Action" in the form of court remedies has been around a long time- since the 1930s- benefiting white union workers against discrimination by employers
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/09/affirmative-action-as-term-appears-in.html

Mugged by reality 1: White quotas, special preferences and government jobs
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/mugged-by-reality-1-white-quotas.html


Lightweight enforcement of EEO laws contradicts claims of "flood" of minorities "taking jobs"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/blog-post.html

Railroaded 3: white violence and intimidation imposed quotas
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-3-white-violence-and.html

Railroaded 2: how white quotas and special preferences blockade black progress...
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-2-thow-white-quotas-and.html

Railroaded 1: How white affirmative action and white special preferences destroyed black railroad employment...
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-how-white-affirmative-action.html



oh did we mention that the primary beneficiaries of Affirmative Action are white..


Affirmative action: primary beneficiaries are white women
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2011/04/affirmative-action-primary.html

7 reasons certain libertarians and right-wingers are wrong about the Civil Right Act
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html

https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/12/better-nutrition-led-to-increases-in.html

Assorted "Role models" debunked- hypocritical heriditarianism
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2009/11/hbd-debunked-debunking-hypocritical.htmll


Social philosophy of Thomas Sowell
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2011/07/social-philosophy-of-thomas-sowell.html


Additional gene flow data... :)


Bogus "biodiversity" theories of Kanazawa, Ruston, Lynn debunked
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post.html

JP Rushton, Michael Levin, Richard Lynn debunked. Weaknesses of Jared Diamond's approach. 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_1818.html

In the Blood- debunking "HBD" and Neo-Nazi appropriation of ancient Egypt 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_29.html

early Europeans and middle Easterners looked like Africans. Peoples returning or "backflowing" to Africa would already be looking like Africans 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_1754.html

 Ancient Egypt: one of the world's most advanced civilizations- created by tropical peoples
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post_06.html

Playing the "Greek defence" -debunking claims of Greeks as paragons of virtue or exemplars of goodness
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/03/playing-greek-defence-review-of-thornton.html

Quotations from mainstream academic research on the Nile Valley peoples
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_9251.html


http://egyptsearchreloaded.proboards.com/thread/15/basic-database-nile-valley-studies



OTHER LINKS
Race, IQ, and Wealth: What the facts tell us about a taboo subject By Ron Unz


HBD EVOLUTION, BRAIN SIZE AND NATIONAL IQ CLAIMS DEBUNKED
Evolution, brain size, and the national IQ of peoples ... - Jelte Wicherts 2010
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wichertsPAIDrejoinder.pdf
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Why national IQs do not support evolutionary theories of intelligence - WIcherts, Borsboom and Dolan 2010
Personality and Individual Differences 48 (2010) 91-96
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wicherts2010.pdf
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Are intelligence tests measurement invariant over time? by JM Wicherts - ?2004
 --Dolan, Wicherts et al 2004. Investigating the nature of the Flynn effect. Intelligence 32 (2004) 509-537
http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/wicherts2004.pdf
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LYNN AND VANHAVEN'S IQ AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS DEBUNKED
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www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/mcbrearty/Pdf/McB%20&%20Brooks%202000%20TRTW.pdf

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Race and other misadventures: essays in honor of Ashley Montagu... By Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman

http://books.google.com/books?id=5DLrgG_MflgC&pg=PA190&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=1#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
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Race and intelligence: separating science from myth. By Jefferson M. Fish. Routledge 2002. See Templeton's detailed article referenced above also inside the book

http://books.google.com/books?id=t9OdPPLIgMAC&pg=PA64&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=7#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
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http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/what-they-mean.htm
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Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
For summary see: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-02-18/
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/curveball.html


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--S OY Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1455.pdf


--S.O.Y. Keita and Rick Kittles. (1997) *The Persistence ofRacial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence. AJPA, 99:3
http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/pageDocuments/WAURRSZQOE.pdf
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HBD RACE EVOLUTION CLAIMS DEBUNKED BY GENETICISTS
Alan Templeton. "The Genetic and Evolutionary significnce oF Human Races." pp 31-56. IN: J. FiSh (2002) Race and Intelligence: Separating scinnce from myth.

IQ claims and miscellaneous data
HBD RACE AND INTELLIGENCE CLAIMS DEBUNKED
 J. FiSh (2002) Race and Intelligence: Separating science from myth.

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MORE HBD DEBUNKING
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Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
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Krimsky, S, Sloan.K (2011) Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture
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Wicherts and Johnson, 2009. Group differences in the heritability of items and test scores
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/04/24/rspb.2009.0238.full


http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/coming-apart-can-murrays-down-with.html


"SELECTION FOR"- "SELECT FOR" HDB CLAIMS DEBUNKED- "SELECTION" IS NOT THE ONLY KEY FORCE DRIVING CHANGE
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/12/demic-diffusion-notes-and-tropical.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/08/cro-magnons-are-us-debunking-claims.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html



--Joseph Graves, 2006. What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Human Genetic Variation and the Social Construction of Race
http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Graves/

J. Kahn (2013) How a Drug Becomes "Ethnic" - Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, v4:1
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=yjhple

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http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PageProofs-Graves_race.pdf

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Nubian_Egyptian_AfricanAmerican_black_limb_proportions_Niespodziewanski _2014



other links 



Evolution, brain size, and the national IQ of peoples ... - Jelte Wicherts 2010
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wichertsPAIDrejoinder.pdf
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Why national IQs do not support evolutionary theories of intelligence - WIcherts, Borsboom and Dolan 2010
Personality and Individual Differences 48 (2010) 91-96
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wicherts2010.pdf
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Are intelligence tests measurement invariant over time? by JM Wicherts - ?2004
 --Dolan, Wicherts et al 2004. Investigating the nature of the Flynn effect. Intelligence 32 (2004) 509-537
http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/wicherts2004.pdf
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LYNN AND VANHAVEN'S IQ AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS DEBUNKED
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www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/mcbrearty/Pdf/McB%20&%20Brooks%202000%20TRTW.pdf

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Race and other misadventures: essays in honor of Ashley Montagu... By Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman

http://books.google.com/books?id=5DLrgG_MflgC&pg=PA190&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=1#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
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Race and intelligence: separating science from myth. By Jefferson M. Fish. Routledge 2002. See Templeton's detailed article referenced above also inside the book

http://books.google.com/books?id=t9OdPPLIgMAC&pg=PA64&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=7#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
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http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/what-they-mean.htm
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Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
For summary see: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-02-18/
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/curveball.html

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--S OY Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1455.pdf


--S.O.Y. Keita and Rick Kittles. (1997) *The Persistence ofRacial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence. AJPA, 99:3
http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/pageDocuments/WAURRSZQOE.pdf
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HBD RACE EVOLUTION CLAIMS DEBUNKED BY GENETICISTS
Alan Templeton. "The Genetic and Evolutionary significnce oF Human Races." pp 31-56. IN: J. FiSh (2002) Race and Intelligence: Separating scinnce from myth.


HBD RACE AND INTELLIGENCE CLAIMS DEBUNKED
 J. FiSh (2002) Race and Intelligence: Separating science from myth.

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MORE HBD DEBUNKING
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Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
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Krimsky, S, Sloan.K (2011) Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture
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Wicherts and Johnson, 2009. Group differences in the heritability of items and test scores
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/04/24/rspb.2009.0238.full


http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/coming-apart-can-murrays-down-with.html


"SELECTION FOR"- "SELECT FOR" HDB CLAIMS DEBUNKED- "SELECTION" IS NOT THE ONLY KEY FORCE DRIVING CHANGE
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/12/demic-diffusion-notes-and-tropical.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/08/cro-magnons-are-us-debunking-claims.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html



--Joseph Graves, 2006. What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Human Genetic Variation and the Social Construction of Race
http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Graves/

J. Kahn (2013) How a Drug Becomes "Ethnic" - Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, v4:1
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=yjhple

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Other notes- Africa, Nile Valley- DNA- agriculture, etc



http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PageProofs-Graves_race.pdf



"troubled youth..."


Misc data:

Data from New York and Minnesota show that blacks stopped had LESS weapons or contraband on them than whites, yet blacks were disproportionately stopped, searched and experienced more use of police force against them. 



Data from the city of Minneapolis itself. The blacks were stopped almost 3 times the rate of whites, and were in higher crime hoods, yet whites stops yielded MORE contraband than blacks or Latinos..



Data on extremist murders of US police officers
Most murders of law enforcement by domestic extremists are by white right-wing groups



Haplogroup E distribution in Europe
Kalevi_wiik2_Greek_southern_european_DNA_Map13.jpg



Sunday, June 19, 2022

Critical Race Theory Debunked 3- James Patterson was right about racism against white males



Parts one and two of our series on "Critical Race Theory" examined standard "refutation" narratives involving a white victim "card." But as if tailor made for part 3- we have the case of James Patterson. Multimillionaire author James Patterson sparked controversy recently and comprehensively refuted Critical Race Theory, when he pointed out that older white males are victims of racism in the publishing industry. Said Patterson:

In an interview about his new memoir "James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life" with The Sunday Times that published last weekend, the 75-year-old author lamented on the perceived plight of white men in the entertainment industry, calling their struggle to find writing jobs in film, theater, TV and publishing industries.

"[Its} "just another form of racism." What’s that all about?" he continued. "Can you get a job? Yes. Is it harder? Yes. It’s even harder for older writers. You don’t meet many 52-year-old white males.”


Reaction was swift with rebuttals pointing out that:
  • Lesser qualified or notable white writers keep getting bigger advances and more opportunities than even established black writers with more books, sales or awards. "Publishing executives responded by releasing statements expressing support for racial justice, announcing antiracism training and promising to put out more books by writers of color."
  • A huge NY Times sampling of data from major publishing houses revealed that 95% of the authors were white.
  • A 2008 survey turned up the same results- 88% of those published were white authors. As did a 2020 survey- 89% of the books were written by white authors. 
  • A 2019 NYT survey also found white dominance on the backend, the "gatekeepers": 85% of the people who acquire and edit books are white.. Another survey again shows a similar pattern: . A January 2020 survey by Lee & Low Books found that 76% of publishing employees were White, and 74% were cisgender women.
  • USAToday ran stats on its own Top Seller's list. Again whites dominated over 85% of the list, including Bill O'Reilly, John Grisham, David Baldacci, Nicholas Sparks, right wing polemicist Mark Levan, and, of course, James Patterson.
  • Several established Black editors and authors noted that white publishers seemed to be using an informal "quota" system, where 2 or 3 titles by black authors signaled a "done" for that particular year or time cycle.
  • Within related media such as film, a 2022 Hollywood Diversity Report conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) found that white, male directors continue to be an overwhelming majority throughout the years - in 2019, 85.6% of directors were white while 84.9% were male. 
  • Patterson was also taken to task for the irony of one of the richest, most notable and best-selling authors, a white male, lamenting how bad things are for white males, but lets not go there. 
See:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-13/james-patterson-says-white-male-authors-face-racism-sparks-backlash

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/11/opinion/culture/diversity-publishing-industry.html

https://www.salon.com/2022/06/13/james-patterson-caucasian-male-writers/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/06/17/james-patterson-white-men-racism-do-book-sales-support-claim/7640384001/


A victim...


Why is "reverse racism" being invoked when it is pretty clear from almost all available data that the main reason white males have lost ground is white women? 

Interesting that Patterson, who as a veteran with decades in the field invokes "racism" when he is quite aware that a large slice of people on either the best-selling, or regular author lists. much more so that any authors of color, are white women. Why is that? It is also interesting that he invokes "racism" specifically, but only indirectly mentions another elephant in the room- ageism- that impacts white male authors? Aren't these examples of the same distorted "race card playing" conservatives hypocritically cry about re "the liberals"?


Why is "reverse racism against males" being invoked when, not only are white women the main reason that some white males may have regressed, but even when actual confrontation take place in offices or courts over race , whites have notched up several victories, and have succeeded in limiting things like racial "quotas". The record shows many rulings FAVORABLE to white males (See Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc. (AELE) Case Law Summaries 2018 for example ): such as: 

(a) male firefighters or police suing and winning against such quotas and being subsequently hired/promoted, 
(b) courts rejecting various "quota" plans that hurt said males, or
(c) courts upholding AA plans, just as they have upheld white union AA plans, where such are narrowly tailored to remedying past discrimination- i.e.  white women being denied promotion for years in favor of men.
Far from a vale of tears, the overall record shows while males winning consistently or having implementations sharply limited in "affirmative" action cases, again, to white male benefit.

Data: Far from the "quota doom" narrative, white males have been winning a fair amount in legal AA disputes. See: Cleveland Firefighters for Fair Hiring Practices v. City of Cleveland, 2012; Quinn v. City of Boston, 2003;  Lalla v. City of New Orleans, 1999; Ashton v. Memphis, 1999; Abban v. Boston Police, Mass. Civ. Serv. 1998; Dallas Fire Fighters Assn. v. City of Dallas 1998, Dallas Fire Fighters v. Dallas, 1995; or  a white male police applicant winning reverse discrimination suit; city's affirmative action plan was deficient. Lilly v. City of Beckley, 1985, etc.

Data: See also examples of "quota" plans struck down or limited when white males sued: Biondo v. City of Chicago, 2004; Arrington v. Wilks and Martin v. Wilks, 1995, and victories posted by white male Maryland state troopers, who successfully challenged an affirmative action promotional plan, sharing a $243,000 settlement approved in federal court. Md. Trprs. Assn. v. Evans, 1993; Liebno v. Md. St. Pol., and Barker v. Md. St. Pol., 1995; or federal court rejecting a D.C. fire dept. affirmative action plan, after firefighters' union and justice dept. object. Hammon v. Barry, 1985, 1987. See also the use of special collateral attacks or multiple new indirect attacks against settled or agreed to affirmative action consent degrees- which have had some success in delaying or undercutting such decrees. 



And why is "racism" being invoked when Patterson, who has been around for decades, knows that publishing trends come and go:  one year paranormal, the next sci-fiction, the next female biographies and so on?  The current cycle is just yet another trendy cycle built around current events like the George Floyd murder case, where "authors of color" or "the black experience" or "gays of color" etc become trendy or "hot" for a time, before the next trend gains prominence. 
Everyone knows that there are passing trends and cycles, and Patterson of all people should have known. Established "colored" authors and editors in the field know this as well, In one NY Times survey, one book company editor readily acknowledges how trendiness influences decisions: QUOTE:

"Ms. Brown attributed the fluctuation in publishers’ support for Black writers to the news cycle, which periodically directs the nation’s attention to acts of brutality against Black people. Publishers’ interest in amplifying Black voices wanes as media coverage peters out because “many white editors are not exposed to Black life beyond the headlines,” Ms. Brown said."
Just How White Is the Book Industry? - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/11/opinion/culture/diversity-publishing-industry.html]
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Given the above by people who know better, what are we to conclude?  Whatever its shortcomings, (and it does have some) "Critical" Race Theory gained ground in legal or college venues because it (a) demonstrated the salience of race in many aspects of American life, and (b) exposed a continual narrative of duplicity and distortion to deny the salience or applicability of race- not merely by rhetoric but by hard data and court cases.

What for example are we to conclude from the massive distortion of the "Pigfordcase, where African-American farmers, who had suffered decades of discrimination, finally, after decades of litigation, won the hugest civil rights settlement in history, but saw relatively little money or satisfactory reform when the smoke cleared? Their struggle was dismissed and distorted as a "black giveaway" by right-wing media operatives, when in fact, in an exceedingly complicated case involving tens of thousands, the black farmers as a whole saw minimal amounts (what's $50,000 per head for example,  when one farm combine may cost $300,000, or debt service might cost $10,000 per month), or no compensation at all. And what about the white wrongdoers still in place within the USDA who engineered the discrimination problem? Little of this is mentioned in the distorted right-wing "giveaway" narrative. As of this writing, many are still in place. As one detailed history notes:

“The civil rights and equal opportunity laws of the mid-1960s prompted USDA bureaucrats to embrace equal rights rhetorically even as they intensified discrimination. This passive nullification, voicing agreement with equal rights while continuing or intensifying discrimination, did not rely on antebellum intellectual arguments or confrontations but instead thrived silently in the offices of biased employees. Phone calls and conversations at segregated meetings and conventions left no racist fingerprints, but the accretion of prejudice festered and ultimately grew into a plan to eliminate minority, women, and small farmers by preventing their sharing equally in federal programs. Despite overwhelming evidence of discrimination, incompetence, and falsehoods in many offices, the USDA never cut off funds to those offices, and apparently no white person was fired and few were even relocated or reprimanded.”

--Pete Daniel 2015. Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights. Pp. xi – xii
https://flexpub.com/preview/dispossession

and

"Breitbart said he first became "obsessed" with the Pigford settlements for Black farmers in 2010...  But our analysis of census data shows that [Breitbart's] arguments rested on specious numbers. They failed to account for the survey’s historical undercounts of Black farmers, which—along with other factors—led them to understate the number of potentially eligible claimants. Our reporting suggests that most Black people who farmed in the relevant period did not receive Pigford payments, and a closer look at those who did shows the payments were often inadequate..  ..many Black farmers do not feel the settlement helped “close a painful chapter in our collective history.”
--Nathan Rosenberg and Bryce Stucki. How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against Black farmers.
https://thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/

and

"Unfortunately, the United States Congress, the Federal courts and the attorneys handling the Pigford case hailed it as the savior of black farmers in the media. This widely held perception of the case would be proven to be far from the truth . The high denial rates, the lack of adequatechange in USDA policies and procedures and the failure of the USDA and its Office of Civil Rights and Office of General Counsel to prevent ongoing acts of discrimination and protect the black farmers against retaliation demonstrate the shortcomings of the Pigford consent decree.

The primary goal of the Pigford consent decree was to pay black farmers quickly without much decision about how USDA would change its practices to ensure zero tolerance for acts of discrimina tion and the employees who perpetuate those illegal acts."
-- USDA Civil Rights Program- Subcommittee Hearings on Department Operations. No 107-23. 2002. US House of Representatives, US Congress.


Critical" theory would not have the influence that it does (and it may not be that much) if people were more honest about race, and race can be honestly dealt with by the simple facts of the historical record without needing any "critical" theory. Too much of the current  anti-"critical theory" "campaign" though provides an excellent, diversionary propaganda strawman that allows people to avoid honestly discussing the issues, or even acknowledging the simple facts. The strawman is designed so people don't have to think - they knee-jerk, like lemmings, only have to remember standard propaganda phrases- somewhat like how the charge of "communism" was deployed to stifle or sidetrack civil rights campaigns and leaders. Seems some methods never change. But hey, Patterson is to be commended for his refutation of the dastardly "critical" theory. He has done a real service.



LINKS TO OTHER POSTS:


https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2022/06/james-patterson-was-right-about-racism.html
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2022/06/critical-race-theory-debunked-part-2.html
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2022/05/critical-race-theory-debunked-white.html

Biden won, get over it, but can he breakout in Covid era?
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/686085999190798340/6179060851903968774
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2020/11/teflon-dons-coating-in-trouble-can-he.html

The Teflon Don may reap benefit from Floyd protest violence and looting
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2020/06/teflon-don-may-see-fulsome-benefits.html

The Teflon Don- Covid-era approval rating may signal November success 
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-teflon-don-covid-era-approval.html

Would a Biden win be any big loss for Republicans?
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2020/04/would-biden-win-be-any-big-loss-for.html

Tchalla's "Wakanda First" philosophy looks a bit like Donald Trump's "America First" approach
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2019/01/tchallas-wakanda-first-philosophy-looks.html

Significant EEOC Race-Color Cases- Covering Private and Federal Sectors 
https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post.html

'AsiaRate' Lawsuit against Harvard shows dirty little secret- white quotas used at elite universities
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2018/06/asiarate-lawsuit-against-harvard-shows.html

Some gays find welcome home in the 'alt-right' as nationalist organizations step up recruitment
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2018/05/some-gays-find-welcome-home-in-alt.html

Racial discrimination is alive and kicking in employment, housing and credit markets
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2017/07/racial-discrimination-is-alive-and.html 

Sowell 3- new data shows backward tropical evolution? Wealth and Poverty- An International Perspective in Trump era
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2017/07/sowell-3-new-data-shows-backward.html

Sowell 2- Wealth, Poverty and Politics- International Perspective - Trump era to bring these issues into sharper focus?
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2017/07/sowell-2-wealth-poverty-and-politics.html

Sowell- Liberal intellectuals and hard questions about race differences- Trump era may force them to focus?
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2017/07/sowell-liberal-intellectuals-and-hard.html


Trump properties discriminated against black tenants lawsuit finds
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2016/07/trump-properties-discriminated-against.html

Stealing credibility- Dinesh D'souza has prison epiphany- after hanging with the homies- Hallelujah Hilary!
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2016/05/straining-credibility-dinesh-dsouza-has.html

Shame on you, and your guilt too- A review of Shelby Steele's 'Shame'
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-review-wealth-poverty-and-politics.html


http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2016/04/go-with-flow-3-more-dna-and-cranial.html

Go with the flow 2- African gene flow into Europe in various eras
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/11/go-with-flow-2-african-gene-flow-into.html

DNA studies show African movement to Europe from very ancient times
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/dna-studies-show-african-movement-to.html

Guilt3- Why the "white privilege industry" is not all there
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/guilt3-why-white-privilege-industry-is.html

Guilt2- Media collaborates with guilt mongers - or how to play the white victim card
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/09/guilt2-media-collaborates-with-guilt.html

How Obama plays on white guilt
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-obama-plays-upon-white-guilt-hilary.html

Blacks oppose free speech- more ramshackle "research" from "the East"..
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/08/blacks-oppose-free-speech-ramshackle.html

Hands off the Confederate flag
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/06/hands-off-confederate-flag.html

Despite much more wealth than blacks, whites collect about the same rate of welfare and are treated more generously
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/06/despite-much-more-wealth-than-blacks.html

African "boat people" ushering in European demographic decline
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/05/african-boat-people-ushering-in.html



The forgotten Holocaust- King Leopold's "Congo Free State" - 10 million victims
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-forgotten-holocaust-10-million-in.html

Are violent minorities taking over California and the West?
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/04/are-violent-minorities-taking-over.html

Presidential hopeful Ben Carson meets and Greeks
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/03/presidential-hopeful-ben-carson-meet.html

Contra "ISIS" partisans, there have been some beneficial effects of Christianity
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/03/contra-isis-partisans-there-are-some.html


The social construction of race, compared to biology- Graves
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-social-construction-of-race_8.html

Why HBD or hereditarianism lacks credibility
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-hbd-or-hereditarianism-lacks.html

Leading Scientists criticize hereditarian claims
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/leading-scientists-criticize.html

Thai me down - Thais fall behind genetically related southern Chinese, Tibetans below genetically related East Asians like Koreans and other Chinese 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/thai-me-up-thai-me-down.html

Time for liberals to respect "the south" ... in a way of speaking.. the south of Egypt that is..
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/08/time-for-liberals-to-respect-south-in.html

Irony 2: touted High IQ "G-men" cannot reproduce themselves 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/07/irony-2-higher-iqs-correlated-with_25.html

Unz and Sowell: Unz debunking Lynn's IQ and Wealth of Nations. Sowell debunking the Bell Curve
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/07/unz-and-sowell-unz-debunking-lynns-iq.html

Irony 1: touted High IQ types are more homosexual, more atheist, and more liberal (HAL)
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/06/irony-high-iqs-produce-more-atheists.html



Elite white universities discriminate against Asians using reverse "affirmative action"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/06/elite-white-universities-discriminate.html

Deteriorating state of white America
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/05/deteriorating-state-of-white-america.html


Racial Cartels (The Affirmative Action Propaganda machine- part 2
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-affirmative-action-propaganda.html

Hereditarian's/HBD's "Great Black Hope"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/04/blog-post.html

The Balance sheet

Exploding nonsense: the 10,000 Year Explosion
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html


We need "rational racism"- Convicted felon Dinesh Dsouza becomes his own test case
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-need-rational-racism-proponent.html

The Affirmative Action Propaganda Machine- part 1
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-affirmatve-action-propaganda.html

Two rules for being "really" black- no white wimmen, no Republican


http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/to-be-really-black-you-cant-have-white.html

The Axial age reconsidered
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-axial-age-reconsidered.html

Cannibal seasonings: dark meat on white
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/12/i.html

"Affirmative Action" in the form of court remedies has been around a long time- since the 1930s- benefiting white union workers against discrimination by employers
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/09/affirmative-action-as-term-appears-in.html

Mugged by reality 1: White quotas, special preferences and government jobs
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/mugged-by-reality-1-white-quotas.html


Lightweight enforcement of EEO laws contradicts claims of "flood" of minorities "taking jobs"
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/blog-post.html

Railroaded 3: white violence and intimidation imposed quotas
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-3-white-violence-and.html

Railroaded 2: how white quotas and special preferences blockade black progress...
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-2-thow-white-quotas-and.html

Railroaded 1: How white affirmative action and white special preferences destroyed black railroad employment...
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/railroaded-how-white-affirmative-action.html



oh did we mention that the primary beneficiaries of Affirmative Action are white..


Affirmative action: primary beneficiaries are white women
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2011/04/affirmative-action-primary.html

7 reasons certain libertarians and right-wingers are wrong about the Civil Right Act
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html

https://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/12/better-nutrition-led-to-increases-in.html

Assorted "Role models" debunked- hypocritical heriditarianism
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2009/11/hbd-debunked-debunking-hypocritical.htmll


Social philosophy of Thomas Sowell
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2011/07/social-philosophy-of-thomas-sowell.html


Additional gene flow data... :)


Bogus "biodiversity" theories of Kanazawa, Ruston, Lynn debunked
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post.html

JP Rushton, Michael Levin, Richard Lynn debunked. Weaknesses of Jared Diamond's approach. 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_1818.html

In the Blood- debunking "HBD" and Neo-Nazi appropriation of ancient Egypt 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_29.html

early Europeans and middle Easterners looked like Africans. Peoples returning or "backflowing" to Africa would already be looking like Africans 
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_1754.html

 Ancient Egypt: one of the world's most advanced civilizations- created by tropical peoples
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post_06.html

Playing the "Greek defence" -debunking claims of Greeks as paragons of virtue or exemplars of goodness
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/03/playing-greek-defence-review-of-thornton.html

Quotations from mainstream academic research on the Nile Valley peoples
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_9251.html


http://egyptsearchreloaded.proboards.com/thread/15/basic-database-nile-valley-studies



OTHER LINKS
Race, IQ, and Wealth: What the facts tell us about a taboo subject By Ron Unz


HBD EVOLUTION, BRAIN SIZE AND NATIONAL IQ CLAIMS DEBUNKED
Evolution, brain size, and the national IQ of peoples ... - Jelte Wicherts 2010
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wichertsPAIDrejoinder.pdf
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Why national IQs do not support evolutionary theories of intelligence - WIcherts, Borsboom and Dolan 2010
Personality and Individual Differences 48 (2010) 91-96
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wicherts2010.pdf
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Are intelligence tests measurement invariant over time? by JM Wicherts - ?2004
 --Dolan, Wicherts et al 2004. Investigating the nature of the Flynn effect. Intelligence 32 (2004) 509-537
http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/wicherts2004.pdf
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LYNN AND VANHAVEN'S IQ AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS DEBUNKED
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www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/mcbrearty/Pdf/McB%20&%20Brooks%202000%20TRTW.pdf

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Race and other misadventures: essays in honor of Ashley Montagu... By Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman

http://books.google.com/books?id=5DLrgG_MflgC&pg=PA190&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=1#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
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Race and intelligence: separating science from myth. By Jefferson M. Fish. Routledge 2002. See Templeton's detailed article referenced above also inside the book

http://books.google.com/books?id=t9OdPPLIgMAC&pg=PA64&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=7#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
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http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/what-they-mean.htm
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Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
For summary see: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-02-18/
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/curveball.html


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--S OY Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1455.pdf


--S.O.Y. Keita and Rick Kittles. (1997) *The Persistence ofRacial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence. AJPA, 99:3
http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/pageDocuments/WAURRSZQOE.pdf
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HBD RACE EVOLUTION CLAIMS DEBUNKED BY GENETICISTS
Alan Templeton. "The Genetic and Evolutionary significnce oF Human Races." pp 31-56. IN: J. FiSh (2002) Race and Intelligence: Separating scinnce from myth.

IQ claims and miscellaneous data
HBD RACE AND INTELLIGENCE CLAIMS DEBUNKED
 J. FiSh (2002) Race and Intelligence: Separating science from myth.

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MORE HBD DEBUNKING
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Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
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Krimsky, S, Sloan.K (2011) Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture
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Wicherts and Johnson, 2009. Group differences in the heritability of items and test scores
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/04/24/rspb.2009.0238.full


http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/coming-apart-can-murrays-down-with.html


"SELECTION FOR"- "SELECT FOR" HDB CLAIMS DEBUNKED- "SELECTION" IS NOT THE ONLY KEY FORCE DRIVING CHANGE
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/12/demic-diffusion-notes-and-tropical.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/08/cro-magnons-are-us-debunking-claims.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html



--Joseph Graves, 2006. What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Human Genetic Variation and the Social Construction of Race
http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Graves/

J. Kahn (2013) How a Drug Becomes "Ethnic" - Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, v4:1
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=yjhple

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http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PageProofs-Graves_race.pdf

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Nubian_Egyptian_AfricanAmerican_black_limb_proportions_Niespodziewanski _2014



other links 



Evolution, brain size, and the national IQ of peoples ... - Jelte Wicherts 2010
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wichertsPAIDrejoinder.pdf
------------------------------------

Why national IQs do not support evolutionary theories of intelligence - WIcherts, Borsboom and Dolan 2010
Personality and Individual Differences 48 (2010) 91-96
http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/wicherts2010.pdf
----------------------------- -------------

Are intelligence tests measurement invariant over time? by JM Wicherts - ?2004
 --Dolan, Wicherts et al 2004. Investigating the nature of the Flynn effect. Intelligence 32 (2004) 509-537
http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/wicherts2004.pdf
-------------------------------------------

LYNN AND VANHAVEN'S IQ AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS DEBUNKED
---------------- -------

www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/mcbrearty/Pdf/McB%20&%20Brooks%202000%20TRTW.pdf

------------------------

Race and other misadventures: essays in honor of Ashley Montagu... By Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman

http://books.google.com/books?id=5DLrgG_MflgC&pg=PA190&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=1#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
--------------------------------

Race and intelligence: separating science from myth. By Jefferson M. Fish. Routledge 2002. See Templeton's detailed article referenced above also inside the book

http://books.google.com/books?id=t9OdPPLIgMAC&pg=PA64&dq=r-+k-+selection+races&cd=7#v=onepage&q=r-%20k-%20selection%20races&f=false
------------------------

http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/what-they-mean.htm
---------------- -------

Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
For summary see: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-02-18/
---------------- -------

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/course/topics/curveball.html

-----------------------------------------------------------

--S OY Keita, R A Kittles, et al. "Conceptualizing human variation," Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004)
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/pdf/ng1455.pdf


--S.O.Y. Keita and Rick Kittles. (1997) *The Persistence ofRacial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence. AJPA, 99:3
http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/pageDocuments/WAURRSZQOE.pdf
---------------- -------

HBD RACE EVOLUTION CLAIMS DEBUNKED BY GENETICISTS
Alan Templeton. "The Genetic and Evolutionary significnce oF Human Races." pp 31-56. IN: J. FiSh (2002) Race and Intelligence: Separating scinnce from myth.


HBD RACE AND INTELLIGENCE CLAIMS DEBUNKED
 J. FiSh (2002) Race and Intelligence: Separating science from myth.

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MORE HBD DEBUNKING
-------------------------------- ---------------------

Oubre, A (2011) Race Genes and Ability: Rethinking Ethnic Differences, vol 1 and 2. BTI Press
----------------------------------------------

Krimsky, S, Sloan.K (2011) Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture
-------------------------------


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begy_Black_or_Dark_Egyptian_Copt_family_c1890.jpg


begy_indigenous_egyptian_children_temple_wall_1890.jpg




Wicherts and Johnson, 2009. Group differences in the heritability of items and test scores
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/04/24/rspb.2009.0238.full


http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2013/06/coming-apart-can-murrays-down-with.html


"SELECTION FOR"- "SELECT FOR" HDB CLAIMS DEBUNKED- "SELECTION" IS NOT THE ONLY KEY FORCE DRIVING CHANGE
http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/12/demic-diffusion-notes-and-tropical.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/05/7-reasons-libertarians-may-be-wrong.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2012/08/cro-magnons-are-us-debunking-claims.html

http://nilevalleypeoples.blogspot.com/2014/03/exploding-nonsense-review-of-cochran_8.html



--Joseph Graves, 2006. What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Human Genetic Variation and the Social Construction of Race
http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Graves/

J. Kahn (2013) How a Drug Becomes "Ethnic" - Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, v4:1
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=yjhple

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Other notes- Africa, Nile Valley- DNA- agriculture, etc



http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PageProofs-Graves_race.pdf



"troubled youth..."


Misc data:

Data from New York and Minnesota show that blacks stopped had LESS weapons or contraband on them than whites, yet blacks were disproportionately stopped, searched and experienced more use of police force against them. 



Data from the city of Minneapolis itself. The blacks were stopped almost 3 times the rate of whites, and were in higher crime hoods, yet whites stops yielded MORE contraband than blacks or Latinos..



Data on extremist murders of US police officers
Most murders of law enforcement by domestic extremists are by white right-wing groups