Science museum bans DNA genius at centre of race row

Daily Mail
Nobel Prize win­ner Dr James Wat­son was this week banned today from speak­ing at London’s Sci­ence Museum after report­edly say­ing black peo­ple were less intel­li­gent than whites.
In an extra­or­di­nary out­burst, the vet­eran aca­d­e­mic, 79, claimed he was “inher­ently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social poli­cies are based on the fact [...]

FTR #613 The Socialism of Fools, Part 2: American Dreyfus

Recorded Octo­ber 7, 2007
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Sup­ple­ment­ing FTR#567, this pro­gram high­lights the resur­gence of anti-Semitism in the United States and else­where. [The title of the pro­gram refers to a char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of anti-Semitism by a 20th cen­tury social critic as “the social­ism of fools.”] Of par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance in the pro­gram is the scape­goat­ing of [...]

Strategies of Attrition (III)

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II).]
LHASA/BEIJING/ULAAN BAATAR/BERLIN(Own report) — Last week­end, par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of the Ger­mano­phonic minor­ity in North­ern Italy (“South Tyrol”) vis­it­ing the head­quar­ters of the Tibetan “exile gov­ern­ment” in India, declared Tibet’s being part of the People’s Repub­lic of China to be “ille­gal” and called for the seces­sion of [...]

FTR #611 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters — Caution: Networks at Work

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007
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Explor­ing the eco­nomic and polit­i­cal net­works that both pre­cip­i­tated and exe­cuted the 9/11 attacks, this pro­gram high­lights the links between Islamist ele­ments involved at the oper­a­tional level and indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions that dom­i­nate the global geo-political land­scape. These networks—belonging to elite indus­trial, finan­cial and reli­gious insti­tu­tions, as [...]

Strategies of Attrition (II)

GermanForeignPolicy.com
[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).]
BEIJING/LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) — Ger­man politi­cians have announced an esca­la­tion of the chancellor’s Tibet offen­sive. Accord­ing to com­ments made by the Prime Min­is­ter of Hesse, Roland Koch (CDU), Angela Merkel’s meet­ing with the Dalai Lama is only the begin­ning of large scale inter­fer­ence into China’s internal [...]

Looking for a Scapegoat The world again turns to Jews.

by Vic­tor Davis Han­sonTri­bune Media Ser­vices
Who recently said: “These Jews started 19 Cru­sades. The 19th was World War I. Why? Only to build Israel.”
Some holdover Nazi?
Hardly. It was for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Necmet­tin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews — whom he refers to as “bac­te­ria” — controlled [...]

FTR #601 You Gotta Be Kidding: 9/11 Update

Mind-wrenching range of infor­ma­tion in con­junc­tion with the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic forces that pre­cip­i­tated 9/11.

FTR #600 The Axis Revisited: Changing the Past and Controlling the Present

Recorded June 10, 2007
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Intro­duc­tion: Ana­lyz­ing the ongo­ing influ­ence of fas­cism in Germany’s Axis part­ners (Japan and Italy), the pro­gram illus­trates that, as nov­el­ist William Faulkner said: “The past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” Begin­ning with the acquit­tal of the accused mur­der­ers of for­mer Vat­i­can finan­cial adviser [...]

Roads To Riches

by Emily Thorn­tonBUSINESS WEEK
Why investors are clam­or­ing to take over America’s high­ways, bridges, and airports—and why the pub­lic should be ner­vous
Steve Hogan was in a bind. The exec­u­tive direc­tor of Colorado’s North­west Park­way Pub­lic High­way Author­ity had run up $416 mil­lion in debt to build the 10-mile toll road between north Den­ver and the Boulder [...]

FTR #591 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Jere­miah Dug­gan, young British Jew mur­dered in Ger­many after trav­el­ing to Wies­baden to attend an event staged by the Schiller Institute.