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He asked if they could become israelis, not if they could stay. But I guess if there is no israel, just a collective right of a construct identity, then there would be no israelis. Right. Just Jews. But not jews based on religion. Jews based on lineage. The religious demarcation is just coincidental.

"To search for a common gene to define a people or nation, as the Germans once did to argue for their ethnic blood ties, is dangerous. It is an irony of history that whereas in the past those who defined the Jews as a race were vilified as antisemitic, now assertions to the contrary are taken as antisemitic" Reference:“Some people, historians and even scientists, turn a blind eye to the truth. Once to say Jews were a race was anti-Semitic, now to say they're not a race is anti-Semitic. It's crazy how history plays with us.“ Shlomo Sand cited Danielle Venton, 'Highlight: Out of Khazaria—Evidence for “Jewish Genome” Lacking,' in Genome Biology and Evolution, Vol.5, Issue 1, 2013 pp.75-6. Found at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_the_Jewish_People

A very interesting question to pose. I will add my speculation. In scoring a woman in a bar for example, there is an inherent risk/reward scenario. To cut a long story short, a 7 in the bag is worth any number of perfect tens that will be demanding and hard work. They're all the same when the light goes out anyway (hooking-up only). In terms of long-term, most adult men I know will look for solid looks, self-sufficient, good cook, likely good with kids and so on. IMO(and I agree), men want a simple, non-complicated and extremely importantly non-dramatic partnership with a woman. In the mating game, I can't really see the alpha/beta paradigm transferring to women. Men are the hunters, women the hunted. Alphas score big consistently, betas score medium consistently. Women can espouse alpha/beta etc, but that's all it is, espousal. Sooner or later (and it is a narrow biological window) they have to open the gate fully and propagate. If they don't, alpha, beta espousal, it doesn't matter, it's a long, slow barren 50 years to closing time. If they do open the gate to an alpha, they get all the risk/reward inherent in that. But they get it permanently, unlike an alpha male. In short, IMO women have one shot and only one shot at having a child (the first child) with a good man. After that the odds of them bagging a good man with a chiseller in tow is IMO non-existent. Some haphazard brainstorming patriarchal misogyny on a plate. But that's the way it is.

Striking similarities to Communism. Collective, owned in communion, rules made up as they go along. Another personal question: Have you benefited personally from this collective "right" that is based upon stone-age fairy-tales?

I have a personal question to ask here: When you are writing this stuff do you experience any physical pain? Also, you talk about the collective jewish identity or some such. If a jew, whether religious, practicing or ethnically so does not adhere to the israel project but is also part of your defined jewish collective identity, does this not mean that the project is being carried out and in the name of someone who opposes said project? Is this not just another form of government? If it is not, does this mean that a jew who does not adhere to the israel project is not really a legitimate jew, as you have defined it?

Hey man. You crazy? If you just agreed with the "arguments" given and identified as jewish, you'd have a house an a plot waiting for you in the land called israel. I'm sure they'd clear the place of the smell of Palestinian before you got there. Sweet deal!!!

That's some crazy, dangerous shit. Helms Deep, orcs, Palestinians?

Well done!!! Well earned!!!

Look at this disgraceful anti-israel agitprop. Disgraceful. Michael Ratner: A RECENT release by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange shows brutal depths of Israeli policy towards Gaza

Common law husband/wife still applies. Just thought I'd mention it as in English law countries alot of men(and I'm sure women, though I have no knowledge of this) get screwed through Common law. For instance, in my home of origin country (Ireland), pre-nups are irrelevant in court. They can be taken into account if both parties agree at the grievance stage but the judge has no obligation to do so. A thin veneer of law over middle-age tradition.

Arik, Again, there seems to be alot of similarity between your father and my father, now deceased. With my father, he was a very difficult person to be around. He was what I came to term a "dry alcoholic".There were a handful of moments when we had any sort of connection, only really when I would work with/for him in my teenage years. Work was the only place he seemed to have any sort of confidence or identity. He was a deeply troubled man who made a shit load of horrendous choices in life that gave us a dysfuntional family. In this, my mother was equally culpable. In many ways, my country, particularly outside the cities is still tribal and ritualistic in sport and religion etc. This might be surprising to some as I am of European geography but it is true. For some people, how you are and how you have changed is irrelevant. By that, I mean, I have found that no matter what progress or achievement I had in life, some people held on to the fantasy of the old power structure that was in place when I was a child. Before I started to get some perspective on this, when I saw them, it was like coming back under their control again. A kind of cultural deference that is common in tribal societies.

Thanks for sharing, I am very sorry for your trouble and that yourself, wife and child are being put through this. I have a question: WTF is wrong with your parents? It seems from your comments that they have some sort of vendetta against their kids? Looking at the info presented, it seems the fulcrum and energy of the conflict emanates around and from your parents.

Thank you for sharing this. Asserting preferences and indeed expressing emotion was a big problem in my childhood and into adulthood. I have had the curious thought recently, in these situations, to imagine myself as the model for a child growing up. In my mind, as someone who would like to have kids some day, I imagine my own prospective child learning from me in this respect. It has created a certain imperative in my approach. For me, it kind of brings it full circle, a counterpoint to my upbringing.

I've just started reading about feminism and MRM etc., I never paid it much heed previously. I actually asked a feminist I am acquainted with as to the difference between feminism and humanism and she didn't have an answer for me. From what I have read and heard from male feminists, they strike me as emasculated masochists. I have the suspicion that male feminists have seen nothing but rubbish male figures in their lives and therefore see some sort of hope in women doing a better job of the world at large. This might segue-way with socialism aspect and the state as a father figure that's lcd equalisation, limiting the harm done by all the horrible men and giving women an equal chance via subsidisation. I don't have any original answers. For me, self-knowledge is the only rational path. I actually really fear for society atm, it's like there's a bifurcation taking place between the universally true and the partisan nonsense that takes up the quorum of discourse.

Do you have any referenced facts that contradict what was said in the video? If so, I would like you to share them with me.

Arik, I can relate to what you are saying here. It mirrors alot of the attributes of members of my biological family. I empathise greatly. Would it be fair to say that in your family any emotional expression or expression of ambition by yourself was used as a lever against you? Would it be fair to say that you have ambitions and desire to achieve that is not present in other family members? If this is the case, is it that your family members have no concept or ability to aspire to something greater? Do they fear your aspiration as it will contrast with their own failures or lack of ambition? I have the feeling from what you have written that you are searching for objective feedback and a fixed point of reference for your thoughts and emotions and the actions you have taken. Feedback on your decisions and direction in life. The conflict is there because your family is deeply dysfunctional. As a child, approval from parents is sought, so you have a problem: to continue to seek approval from them or to break the mold. For myself, I only really started to discover how fucked up my family was when I did some travelling in my early twenties. The ability to be myself and to not have every emotion or desire or aspiration I had twisted and used against me. I cannot and would not tell you what you should do. But I can tell you this: every second you spend under the influence of these people will murder a little bit more of you.

Spot on.

I think that's an excellent idea. Funny you should post this. I have had the thought for the last while of a cover of Pink Floyds Fletcher memorial home with altered lyrics, possibly an extended version to bring it up to date with all the current psychopaths. Could be an excellent way to promote the show. Otherwise, not a musical bone in my body I'm afraid. If I can help in any other way I would be glad to though.

I have a suggestion that is linked to the public-school versus free-market topic mentioned above. It will however require fully-inflated space-hopper-like testicles to approach. The topic is about how publicly funded school teachers will very often send their kids to private school, especially in the year or two leading up to the "final-exam". The reasons for this are intuitive. This came up in one of FDR podcasts but I cannot remember which. I have personal experience of bringing this up in a "high-school" setting, so I will provide that anecdote. As a class of 30 or so 15-ish year olds we were couple of months from an important state exam. We hadn't had a teacher for a couple of months(out on sick leave) and had basically been left to fend for ourselves. So, one day in this "free" class, the neighbouring teacher (her husband was the vice-principle) storms in roaring that we are making too much noise and basically humiliating us while giving us a collective punishment of a 500 word essay. Now, I knew that many of the teachers in the school had their kids in private schools while taking advantage of what is a ridiculously generous pay/benefits/work-schedule and the near impossibility of sacking. I had some fantastic teachers, many ordinary and some downright evil. I also knew that this teachers kids were in private school. So, I wrote a fairly caustic diatribe against this phenomenon in the punishment essay. Down to the bone shaming. I didn't really think she would read the essays, but she did. She approached me a couple of days later in the common area and said that it had been "well-written" and "would I like to talk about it with her". I thanked her and declined to discuss it further. Anyway, whatever you choose, I wish you the best!!!

Can't remember that one at all.....hehe.

Waleed, I must say well done. This is work worthy of Mr Fisk himself. This is the best explanation I have read on the emergence of ISIS and the interaction of each Western intervention along with the calculated attacks on the heretofore most stable regimes in the region of Gadaffi and Al-Assad. My overwhelming reaction is that Bush and Obama et al have succeeded in elevating jihadi ideology and power to heights bin Laden could not have hoped for. The calculated cynicism, recklessness and murderous disregard for consequences of the US and the coalition of the snivelling is only beginning to bear its fruit. One of the issues that has always evaded attention of the MSM and indeed alot of the alternative media is the role of the Kurds. Given the historically difficult relationship of the Kurds with Turkey, do you have any view on the tension if any there may be with Erdogan in the emergence of a Kurdistan with US backing? Also, linking in with Kurdistan and Turkey is the reported incursions into Syria from and facilitation of anti-Assad forces by Turkey. Then there is the role of Hezbollah in Syria. This seems like a grand game of musical chairs with staunch enemies such as Iran and Kurdistan now perhaps with a common enemy in ISIS? Now there are reports of fighting moving towards Lebanon. With the US targeted attacks in protection of Kurdistan, is there now the potential for conflict to increasingly move to the southwest and the powder-keg that lies there? You mentioned the role of Russia. What form has the Russian intervention taken? This is something for which details have been sorely lacking and has possible wider implications in and of itself. Also, in terms of Egypt, I have found it inexplicable that Egypt has collaborated with the US and israel in attempting to crush Hamas. What is the underlying politik of the Egyptian policy. I cannot imagine it is viewed well on the street in Egypt, although my understanding is that the current regime there had overwhelming electoral support. In a general sense, are we witnessing an inevitable post-Saddam restructuring of the the Middle-East along ethnic lines (rather than French-British), one that may take many years to approximate settled boundaries? The potential for spreading mayhem seems likely. Once again, fantastic work and much appreciated for the detail and explanation of the underlying culture that is difficult to understand for an outsider like myself. Although in a contemporary sense it is an alien culture, it brings to mind the tribal culture in my country (Ireland) and interaction with the Norman and then English invasions from the 12th to the 18th centuries. Divide and conquer and double-cross and bribe. Same old story, sadly.

Hi all, fascinating stuff, especially from the scientist. Natural law rocks!!! I'm new to the concepts presented here. I want to throw an idea out there and I welcome criticism and any commentary. It has occurred to me that in soap-dramas, movies, novels etc (I haven't watched MSM in three years) I have seen for most of my life there never seemed to be an example of a marriage that lasted. There was the drama of the chase, the drama of the marriage, the drama of the children arriving and then the drama of the affair, criminality or whatever. Now, of course this is what sells. But, this is a big part of the culture and the constant message that is being transmitted to and received by the consumer, by their choice. It occurs to me that the message is centred around the improbability of a marriage lasting for any length of time. This is not the end of the world for women (relative to the olden days) what with independent careers, alimony and welfare state. So, my question is: within the sexual strategy of women is there an inherent calculation at play that (in the absence of the effort to achieve self-knowledge) a stable, long-term, happy marriage is unlikely? Further to this, is this not kind of similar to the MTGOW. ie meeting a virtuous woman, not enslaved by culture and/or hormones is unlikely? If it's unlikely, why not play the percentages and hedge? Have a career, nab an alpha man in demand, have his kids (they'll be successful cos' of the genes) ad infinitum. This is IMO related to a wider lowest common denominator-isation of the culture and indeed is related to the state an an "equaliser".

Not sure if they fit primarily in psych thrillers category but I consider them so: Layer Cake Twelve Monkeys Insomnia Man on Fire

This video released today. Norman Finkelstein. It centres mainly on the current escalation but puts historical context on it also. I've been following the current affairs on the region since the Oslo accords at the tender age of 8 or 9. That is to say, I know a little more than nothing about the region and the conflict. Enjoy!!!

I have a couple of suggestions. I know someone who reads a few passages from the middle of the book first, then goes back and starts from the beginning. I think the reason is that alot of books, particularly fiction tend to have a long "setting-up" phase for the story that is hard to penetrate and requires an investment in attention. By reading some of the developed story first, they can determine whether the book will interest them and be of sufficient quality to justify the time investment. I don't do this but it might be worth a try. Secondly, in alot of books I read, I find, even in the best books there is alot of detail and repetition, particularly in trilogies etc. Some of the best books I have read have involved skipping/speed-reading through long passages or even whole chapters. Some authors just drag particular scenes or occurrences out to ridiculous lengths. Happy reading!!!