tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4581062477064579421..comments2024-03-15T20:52:26.967-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: How many of the Forbes 400 are Jewish?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57236884581620821362009-12-05T23:44:59.177-08:002009-12-05T23:44:59.177-08:00Another possibility for the Jews' success in t...Another possibility for the Jews' success in the US is a sense of gratitude they have to this country for giving them a safe home and the freedom to practice their religion--something they did find in Europe and Russia. I realize this is anecdotal, but growing up in a mixed neighborhood in the '50s, it was always the Jewish families that flew flags on national holidays. My Latvia-born grandmother, who spoke five languages, refused to speak anything but English because she was an American now. My brother and I could not act up in public because we would be an embarrassment in front of the goyim. I'm not sure whether this is the motivation among the richer Jews as I most certainly am not one, but it is very common among middle-class Jews who never want to be considered slackers or drags on society. Then lightly sprinkle the whole mental process with paranoia and you have the way many Jews think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51671992690695870952009-10-24T13:16:47.052-07:002009-10-24T13:16:47.052-07:00You guys are the ultimate paradox; you spend 50% o...<b>You guys are the ultimate paradox; you spend 50% of your time whining about people who do worse than you, and the other 50% whining about people who do better.</b><br /><br />Or maybe 50% of us "whine" about people who do worse and the other 50% "whine" about the people who do better? As for me, I assume that racial/ethnic differences in intelligence are real and affect outcomes.<br /><br />That applies as much to groups who do better than whites (Jews) as to groups who do worse, which isn't to say there isn't a lot of Jewish hypocrisy to target, especially regarding their overwhelming support for the idea of equality of outcomes - just so long as it doesn't apply to them.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12901309810474198742009-10-24T01:38:29.844-07:002009-10-24T01:38:29.844-07:00"Who would have thought it, two Jewish boys o..."Who would have thought it, two Jewish boys owning their own tv network!"<br /><br />You guys are the ultimate paradox; you spend 50% of your time whining about people who do worse than you, and the other 50% whining about people who do better.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20004143831194869992009-10-23T21:16:18.120-07:002009-10-23T21:16:18.120-07:00However my ace card is that the Simon Cowell is a ...<i>However my ace card is that the Simon Cowell is a member of the tribe too</i>.<br /><br />Ill see your Cowell and raise you a <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/754/000054592/" rel="nofollow">Malcolm McLaren</a> of Sex Pistols fame.<br /><br />Recently Simon Cowell was <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/29/simon-cowell-philip-green" rel="nofollow">thinking about</a> buying Britsh tv network <a href="http://www.itv.com/" rel="nofollow">ITV</a>. This would be in partnership with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Green" rel="nofollow">Sir Philip Green</a> a retail billionaire.<br /><br />No prizes for guessing Green's ethnic origins.<br /><br />Who would have thought it, two Jewish boys owning their own tv network!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17814810125854948282009-10-23T20:47:31.017-07:002009-10-23T20:47:31.017-07:00didn't whitman end up adapting a chinese girl ...<i>didn't whitman end up adapting a chinese girl or something? So much for anglo bloodlines</i>.<br /><br />Adapting?<br /><br />*Gulp*<br /><br />I'm not sure I like the sound of that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46351061684394385932009-10-23T17:09:10.361-07:002009-10-23T17:09:10.361-07:00As I said, Chris, I'm not an expert on Jewish ...As I said, Chris, I'm not an expert on Jewish philanthropies as a whole. I know something of the Hebrew Free Burial Society, for the reason I mentioned above. I can't think of any sense in which the HFBA "invoke[s] the holocaust to discourage or deflect questioning of their intent and purpose", or why it would want to discourage or deflect such questioning in any case. The HFBA was established well before the Holocaust (in the late 19th Century), and its mission has remained essentially the same since its founding: to provide proper burials for indigent deceased Jews. If you have further questions about this, <a href="http://www.hebrewfreeburial.org/contact.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> is the HFBA's contact info.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81798266644973861212009-10-23T16:53:02.019-07:002009-10-23T16:53:02.019-07:00That brings me to another question. How many of t...That brings me to another question. How many of the entities referred to as Jewish philanthropies would invoke the holocaust to discourage or deflect questioning of their intent and purpose?Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3345909544483985122009-10-23T15:27:04.393-07:002009-10-23T15:27:04.393-07:00"Fred, tell us about these Jewish philanthrop...<i>"Fred, tell us about these Jewish philanthropies we always hear about. That was my original question"</i><br /><br />I'm not an expert on Jewish philanthropies, Chris, but this is one I donate to (in addition to donating to a non-denominational charity) on the anniversary of my father's passing every year: <a href="http://www.hebrewfreeburial.org/" rel="nofollow">The Hebrew Free Burial Association</a>. The mission of the HFBA is to provide proper burials for indigent deceased Jews. I donate to the HFBA in memory of my father because my father donated to it. He donated to it because he watched his father's body get tossed into a mass grave, and he wanted to do what he could to insure dignified burials for others.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77836690621357851992009-10-23T13:41:34.278-07:002009-10-23T13:41:34.278-07:00Fred, tell us about these Jewish philanthropies we...Fred, tell us about these Jewish philanthropies we always hear about. That was my original question - not about how good-hearted the Citibank CEO is. <br /><br />Maybe I should restate it. Here goes: to what extent are those entities referred to as Jewish philanthropies operating in a way <i>intended</i> to <i>specifically</i> further Jewish interests?<br /><br />Simple question, right?Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78570798710228365062009-10-23T12:08:00.375-07:002009-10-23T12:08:00.375-07:00Comrades! the tone here has gotten a little weird....<i>Comrades! the tone here has gotten a little weird.</i><br /><br />Yeah, it is getting weird. But imagine how weird it would be if we were counting another group. Then nobody would be noticing or mentioning how weird it is that we're counting. How weird would that be!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65315563953881887992009-10-23T03:29:17.882-07:002009-10-23T03:29:17.882-07:00Comrades! the tone here has gotten a little weird....Comrades! the tone here has gotten a little weird. Someone might almost get the impression that we iSteve fans have got <a href="http://www.olimu.com/journalism/2003/Texts/CultureOfCritique.htm" rel="nofollow">the Jew Thing</a>. It's really possible to regret the outsized influence American Jews have on U.S. foreign (or even immigration) policy and yet not impugn their motives for funding hospitals. Yes, I imagine most Jews show some preference for members of their own tribe, just as most people do; and that's sure to be salient, since they're a successful group. That doesn't mean they're plotting the demise of the Gentiles.<br /><br />@Noah: I don't know if Steve's being sarcastic or not, but I <b>would</b> like a rough estimate of Scottish representation. It's always seemed to me that the greatest cultural contributors per capita have been the Scots, the Jews, and the Greeks (what ever happened to them??).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85243525711311174082009-10-23T01:40:35.246-07:002009-10-23T01:40:35.246-07:00Practically speaking, Jews effectively fill up the...<b>Practically speaking, Jews effectively fill up the informal white quotas of elite power centers and institutions. Yet they're protected in this position because noticing and saying anything would result in being attacked for suggesting that Jews aren't white or something, which is a giant no-no in our society today.</b><br /><br />Well it realy depends on how you decide to count, doesn't ot? To <i>some</i> people (blacks and various liberals) race is what matters. But why should count by race, or only by race? Gays seem to identify more with their sexual orientation than anything else. Growing up in a white, religious home I idenified more by my religion than my race. Now I'm more inclined to identify by my ethnicity. How people choose to determine their identify is up to them.mmm mmm mmm Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23254220236154193712009-10-23T01:01:31.525-07:002009-10-23T01:01:31.525-07:00This special type of "lack of diversity"...<i>This special type of "lack of diversity" in high power centers in America is a scandal. And mentioning it will put your career on a long track to knowhere apparently.</i><br /><br />Indeed. At Harvard, Jews are around 30% of the undergrad population, and non-Jewish White Christians are about 18% of the Harvard undergrad population. And you'll find similar proportions at the other Ivies and top universities. <br /><br />Practically speaking, Jews effectively fill up the informal white quotas of elite power centers and institutions. Yet they're protected in this position because noticing and saying anything would result in being attacked for suggesting that Jews aren't white or something, which is a giant no-no in our society today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14948425611368045702009-10-22T22:38:44.990-07:002009-10-22T22:38:44.990-07:00"Keep in mind that the essence of the interne...<i>"Keep in mind that the essence of the internet is free exchange of ideas, goods, opinions, etc."</i><br /><br />By accident, or did this have something to do with the spirit/intent of those at the forefront of the Internet revolution, among whom, you note, Jews have been prominent? <br /><br />Your comments and Chris's comment suggest that there is nothing Jews can do that would put them above suspicion/contempt in your eyes. I mean, here you have Jews helping to create technology we all enjoy, technology that happens to facilitate negative commentary about Jews. And yet Jews don't get any credit for that in your book. <br /><br />Similarly, with Chris, we have Jews donating gobs of money to hospitals that treat all and sundry. And yet those donations can't have any humanitarian motivation; they have to have been made to somehow further nefarious Jewish interests. <br /><br />We are human beings too. Can you get that? We aren't that different from non-Jews. We have similar aspirations, fears, flaws, etc.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54766198923989865812009-10-22T22:33:03.992-07:002009-10-22T22:33:03.992-07:00"Putting aside the fact that neither the Weil...<i>"Putting aside the fact that neither the Weill-Cornell medical center nor Cedars were founded by "philanthropies" and that billionaires like Weill need to spend their riches somehow and often do so by ordering monuments to themselves, couldn't both Cedars and WCMC be construed as tools for furthering Jewish influence."</i><br /><br />You're right that Weill didn't found the medical center/school that now bears his name, which was founded over a hundred years ago. But according to <a href="http://news.med.cornell.edu/wcmc/wcmc_2007/06_13_07.shtml" rel="nofollow">Cornell</a>, his gift "Is Believed to Be the Single Largest Gift Ever Given to a Medical School". So it wasn't exactly chopped liver. And Jews have founded other hospitals in America. <br /><br />As for hospital philanthropy being used to "further Jewish interests", I assume you could spin it that way, given that it's clearly in Jewish interests to come up with new treatments for cancer, for example, since Jews do get cancer. But then again, so do no Jews, right? I guess there's no pleasing some people. <br /><br />As for building a monument to himself, Weill is atypical as far as Jewish donors are concerned. Most give not in their own names but in memory of their deceased parents. That's because the Jewish religion holds that one way to advance the position of a soul in the afterlife (Judaism is pretty vague about the afterlife) is to do good works in memory of that person on earth.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41257651183716741582009-10-22T22:28:20.668-07:002009-10-22T22:28:20.668-07:00His name really is Ben Shalom Bernanke! damn I tho...<i>His name really is Ben Shalom Bernanke! damn I thought that was a joke. Steve this is like a bad screenplay: Barack Hussein Obama meets with Ben Shalom Bernanke to decide how far to devalue the dollar.</i><br /><br />Don't forget about Rahm Israel Emanuel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7305398369023715812009-10-22T22:25:03.978-07:002009-10-22T22:25:03.978-07:00While nearly 25 percent (188 gifts totaling $5.3 b...<b>While nearly 25 percent (188 gifts totaling $5.3 billion) were made by Jews, the Jewish mega-givers made fewer than 10 percent of their gifts to Jewish or Israeli organizations."</b><br /><br />And how much was given to lefty political causes, by people like George Soros or the Levi Strauss heirs?<br /><br />No bug up my ass, though. If Jews are giving to their own deserving that's AOK with me - just wish that Harvard-WASP mafia would do the same for its own, too!Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63512399524678386372009-10-22T22:00:33.190-07:002009-10-22T22:00:33.190-07:00And then America is held at the point of a gun by ...<i>And then America is held at the point of a gun by a Fed chairman named Ben Shalom Bernanke and told we have to bail out the finance industry, no questions asked.</i><br /><br />His name really is Ben Shalom Bernanke! damn I thought that was a joke. Steve this is like a bad screenplay: Barack Hussein Obama meets with Ben Shalom Bernanke to decide how far to devalue the dollar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85852705918988124592009-10-22T21:56:13.661-07:002009-10-22T21:56:13.661-07:00Most Jews donate their money to universal, not Jew...Most Jews <a href="http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/article.asp?article=765&paper=1&cat=147" rel="nofollow">donate</a> their money to universal, not Jewish organizations and causes (e.g., such as hospitals, medical centers, non-Jewish universities, etc.): <br /><br /><i>"Two studies, both conducted in recent years but with different methodologies, show that <b>Jewish philanthropists contribute the overwhelming majority of their dollars to universal, rather than Jewish, organizations and causes.</b> In 1998, professor Jack Wertheimer studied the 232 foundations in America that self-identified as giving at least $200,000 to Jewish causes. He found that even these foundations gave nearly two-thirds of their annual funding, $487 million, to non-sectarian causes. Similarly, a 2003 report by Dr. Gary Tobin and colleagues at the Institute for Jewish and Community Research examined <b>the 865 philanthropic gifts of $10 million or more made by all American donors between 1995 and 2000. While nearly 25 percent (188 gifts totaling $5.3 billion) were made by Jews, the Jewish mega-givers made fewer than 10 percent of their gifts to Jewish or Israeli organizations.</b>"</i><br /><br />Fear not, those of you with bugs up your asses about Jews: you will be able to put a negative spin on the piece I linked to above, since the author (a Jew!) apparently wishes more Jewish giving went to Jewish causes.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44341848332647432372009-10-22T20:37:17.297-07:002009-10-22T20:37:17.297-07:00testing99 (Tel Aviv Scots-Irish): Mexicans and Mus...testing99 (Tel Aviv Scots-Irish): Mexicans and Muslims, not Jews, are the ones with real power. Just like the WASP-Harvard mafia controls Hollywood.<br />Noah (Jew): Focus on Scots and Mormons instead of Jews.<br />Fred (Jew): Jews are very tolerant; n/a is a Jew-hater for pointing out facts Jews don't like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30947302931091581872009-10-22T19:43:12.352-07:002009-10-22T19:43:12.352-07:00It isn't surprising that the Jews dominate so ...It isn't surprising that the Jews dominate so many areas of elite practice -- they are smart as a whip.<br /><br />So were the English, who settled Rhodesia when it home to just 100,000 or so wandering tribal African neolithics in 1900. <br /> <br />So were the Boers. So were the Indians in Uganda.<br /><br />Lots of ex-colonialists were very smart compared to the native populations.Big Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34974613243221112902009-10-22T19:24:41.481-07:002009-10-22T19:24:41.481-07:00Is Steve Skol, formerly of Ebay, Jewish or is he o...Is Steve Skol, formerly of Ebay, Jewish or is he one of those wimpy do-goody white boys like Ken Burns and Robert Redford?Andreanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86837184454599032792009-10-22T19:23:22.868-07:002009-10-22T19:23:22.868-07:00"This is why so many Jews are pressuring Obam..."This is why so many Jews are pressuring Obama to control the internet. Media monopoly is slipping away from the Jews."<br /><br />"For reals? Google, which owns the platform on which Steve blogs (and on which the Jew-hating commenter N/A blogs as well) was founded by two Jews, who both remain co-presidents at the firm. Google's main competitor in search -- Microsoft, now that it has partnered with Yahoo! -- is run by a Jew, Steve Balmer. So I think you'd have to argue that the Jews who control the interwebs have been pretty tolerant so far, despite the vitriol heaped on their ethno-religious group."<br /><br />----<br /><br />There's no doubt that Jews have been at the forefront of the internet revolution. And much of the wealth created by internet have gone to liberal or radical causes. <br /><br />Anyway, it's wrong to say that google and microsoft have been 'tolerant'. They control powerful tools on the internet but don't own the internet. Their tools and services led to great fortunes. Keep in mind that the essence of the internet is free exchange of ideas, goods, opinions, etc. The only way to succeed online is by facilitating more freedom, more interconnection. And, Jews like Sergei Brin and Balmer have been brilliant at this. But, it wasn't out of tolerance but for dominance of the internet market. Google dominates and controls search engines. Microsoft dominates windows software. <br />The internet being what it is, Google could not have won the competition if it had been Intolerant and repressive of freedom. <br />BUT, once these guys have amassed huge fortunes, they've donated to politicians who promote PC. Obama and his ilk want to pass 'hate speech' laws--like the on in Europe and Canada--which would criminalize a lot of 'controversial' 'far right' views--of course, 'hate speech' never applies to the left even when nutjob radicals praise Mao and Stalin or deny the number of victims of communism. <br /><br />Do you think the Balmers and Brins of the world will do anything to oppose or block 'hate speech' laws? No, though these fellas amassed huge fortunes by developing tools that faciliated freedom of communication, they are worried because free flow of information has leveled the playing field between the left and right. So, even as they pose as defenders of freedom, guys like Brin will support the Obamas of the world who wanna quell and criminalize 'far right' speech. <br /><br />There is some of this already though self-enforced. Ebay bans sales of Nazi material but allows sales of commie stuff. Facebook bans 'rightwing hate' but you can be as extremist and hateful as possible on the left. <br /><br />Liberals have two uses of freedom. They use it to amass great power and wealth and then use their power and wealth to support politicians who clamp down on our freedoms. The so-called liberal and open-minded people in the media and academia support politicians who propose 'hate crime' legislation. And, do you think the Brins and Balmers will donate a penny to the cause of defending 'hate speech'? Privately, they only want free speech for their side. <br /><br />Of course, Brin will never come forward and openly call for banning 'hate speech'. No, he will say he's all for freedom but then fund politicians who seek to ban 'hate speech'. <br /><br />'Hate Speech' is, of course, mostly how liberals define it. Any speech critical or antagonistic to Jewish interests, Zionism, black power, or the gay agenda will be 'deemed' hateful. <br /><br />Prior to the internet, it was difficult for most people on the right to communicate except through highly (self)censored talk radio and few magazines like National Review. Though Jews do dominate tools in cyberspace, most of these tools allow greater freedom and access to all of us. Even so, most sites do ban or censor mostly 'far right' speech. And the sort of politicians supported by cyber billinonaires eagerly support 'hate speech' legislation whose purpose is to permanently cripple the right in cyberspace. <br /><br />Lots of Hollywood movies were 'patriotic', which made Jews rich, but then rich Jews donated their fortunes to the Democrats.Andreanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78855940471787481532009-10-22T19:09:21.389-07:002009-10-22T19:09:21.389-07:00American Jews have harnessed the best combination ...American Jews have harnessed the best combination of success factors to their advantage - e.g., nature (high intelligence), nurture (group cohesiveness, high interpersonal communication) and location, location, location. <br /><br />And they tend not to piss away their kindling on trips to Disney World, teevee or season tickets on the 50 year line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24718852402228483362009-10-22T19:07:08.076-07:002009-10-22T19:07:08.076-07:00"The wealthiest and most powerful of the risi...<b>"The wealthiest and most powerful of the rising bourgeoisie are connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2006, a survey by the official Chinese Academy of Social Sciences found that of the <i>3,320 richest individuals in China—owning more than 100 million yuan—2,932 were the children of high-ranking officials.</i><br /><br /><br />Whether “self-made” or “well-connected”, all China’s millionaires made their fortunes through the super-exploitation of workers, driven to find work following the destruction of collective agriculture and dismantling of state industry. Poverty has driven workers to accept low wages, long hours, dangerous and unhealthy conditions, poor food and accommodation and a lack of even the most basic labour rights.<br /><br /><br />Social tensions are reaching boiling point. In its February edition, Hong-Kong’s Cheng Ming magazine reported that petitions and demonstrations in China reached 127,467 in 2008 and involved more than 12 million people—compared to 87,000 incidents in 2005. Overwhelmingly the protests are by workers and the urban and rural poor."</b><br /><br /><b>The study finds that the top 10 percent households hold the up to as high as 75 percent of total hidden income. The actual difference of per capita between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent in urban areas is 31 fold instead of official figure of 9 fold. The difference in per capita combining both rural and urban is calculated to be 55 fold between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent, rather than the 21 fold projected by the official statistics. The report also indicates that due to insufficient data, the Gini coefficient is hard to finalize now, but surely reaches the inequality warning standard, 0.45, used by the World Bank.</b><br /><br /><b> The administrative monopoly has contributed substantially to this inequality</b><br /><br />China can be characterized by Brazilian levels of economic inequality, which is aggravated by mass scale crony capitalism. China's large number of billionaires, to a large extent, reflects the degree to which a small clique of people can exploit the rest of the country to their benefit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com