Modern Tribalist

"We are the only country in history that ever deliberately changed its ethnic makeup, and history has few examples of 'diversity' creating a stable society." - Richard Lamm, former governor of Colorado

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

South Africa's health department has recalled millions of condoms given out under a program it funded

BBC News : The company that produced the condoms, Zalatex, allegedly bribed a government official to certify almost four million faulty cond...

Some people with HIV/Aids in Papua New Guinea are being buried alive by their relatives

BBC News : Margaret Marabe said families were taking the extreme action because they could no longer look after sufferers or feared catching...

Families in Turkey accused of forcing young women to take their own lives

Helena Smith : Nuran Uca never made it to 61 Aydin Arslan Street. If she had gone to the colourful two-storey building, climbed its narrow s...

California High School Exit Exam: The number of LAUSD English-learners who passed the English portion of the exam on their first try dropped to 27%

Naush Boghossian : Fewer English-language learners in Los Angeles schools are passing the California High School Exit Exam on the first try,...

Credit scores are good for auto insurance companies, but problematic for African-American and Hispanic consumers

Asa Aarons : Those are the mixed findings from a Federal Trade Commission study on credit-based insurance scores and automobile insurance. T...

One in four babies born in Britain has a foreign mother or father

Philip Johnston : Population data for the year to July 2006 showed the proportion of babies born to a foreign parent has risen to 25 per cen...

Gwinnett officials placed a 17-year-old Mexican boy in jail after he refused treatment for tuberculosis

Associated Press : When doctors told Francisco Santos he had tuberculosis, Santos said he was walking out of the Gwinnett Medical Center in ...

St. Paul: Somalis don't like to report crime - even rape

Anthony Lonetree : The video shows what most witnesses in a St. Paul apartment building apparently didn't tell. A man beat a woman, remo...

A troop of monkeys is giving Kenyan villagers long days and sleepless nights, destroying crops and causing a food crisis

Juliet Njeri : Earlier this month, local MP Paul Muite urged the Kenya Wildlife Service to help contain their aggressive behaviour. But Mr M...

Have racial preferences reduced the number of black lawyers?

Gail Heriot : Specifically, Mr. Sander found that when black and white students with similar academic credentials compete against each other...

Nelson Mandela is to urge black leaders in Britain to do more to beat the gang culture gripping inner cities

Metro : The former South African president will tell an audience of black businessmen, sports stars, celebrities and politicians they have a...

Friday, August 24, 2007

Norway: A Somali immigrant who wildly stabbed fellow passengers on board an Oslo tram 3 years ago is now seeking compensation from the state

Nina Berglund : He claims he never should have been released from psychiatric care just days before he went amok, and his victim's own m...

Three young Somali men convicted of committing street robberies in Helsinki will be allowed to remain in Finland for now

Helsingin Sanomat : The Supreme Administrative Court ordered them not to be deported, until it has made a decision on their applications for...

Drug crimes of the brothers of the French justice minister from Morocco

Kerstin Gehmlich : The legal troubles of two brothers of France's justice minister are embarrassing the former poor immigrant's chil...

Middle-class Britons are beginning to move out of towns in southern England that are home to large numbers of immigrants

This is London : This phenomenon - called 'churn' by Whitehall officials and 'middleclass flight' by other commentators - sa...

Why is acting white so bad?

Andrew Anthony : One proof of this is the pejorative slang term “coconut”, meaning someone who is black on the outside but white on the insi...

Infectious diseases are spreading faster than ever before, the World Health Organization annual report says

BBC News : With about 2.1 billion airline passengers flying each year, there is a high risk of another major epidemic such as Aids, Sars or ...

Paralyzed five-year-old Gazan girl faces deportation battle in Israel

BBC News : Five-year-old Maria Amin from Gaza is putting on a brave face in the hydrotherapy pool. Two therapists at the Alyn Children's...

South Africa's military is needed to fight crime on Cape Town's Table Mountain, the city authorities say

BBC News : The city's tourism head Simon Grindrod said there had been 15 muggings on the mountain, one of South Africa's most famous...

Dog-fighting and the African-American community

Dave Gibson : While most of are sickened by the details of NFL star Michael Vick's brutal and cowardly treatment of his dogs, incredibly...

Poll: Americans want a strong federal policy that secures America's southwestern border and makes illegal immigration more difficult

Joe Murray : According to the Aug. 18 poll, Americans, by a margin 56-31 percent, want the federal government to continue building a fence a...

Kelsey Grammer is to confront the man who raped and murdered his sister in an attempt to prevent the killer's release from prison

Daily Mail : The star of TV's Frasier will come face to face with Freddie Glenn at a parole hearing in January. Grammer will tell the p...

A sweep by federal immigration agents and local authorities has netted 60 Mexican immigrants with ties to violent street gangs

Greg Gross : The two-week-long sweep is part of Operation Community Shield, an ongoing nationwide effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enf...

73-year-old woman raped by an illegal immigrant from Guatemala

Dan Uhlinger : Resolute in her desire for justice, the 73-year-old woman steered her motorized wheelchair into the Hartford courtroom Wednes...

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Britain: The continuing problem of gang violence is due to the absence of fathers in black communities, Justice Secretary Jack Straw says

BBC News : He said young black men needed their fathers as role models, otherwise their development suffered. Black girls from similar backg...

An Alameda County judge has denied bail to an associate of Your Black Muslim Bakery who is charged with kidnapping a woman for ransom

Henry K. Lee : Joshua Bey, 19, would be a danger to the community and to the woman if he is released on bail, said Judge Morris Beatus of Al...

Immigration, multiculturalism and Scottish independence

David Pryce-Jones : Tony Blair has got out of Downing Street just in time, leaving a whole range of crises, any one of which might well scup...

Greek police have clashed with African immigrants protesting over the death of a Nigerian man in the northern city of Thessaloniki

BBC News : Police fired tear gas at a stone-throwing crowd who had gathered outside the police station on Monday holding up photographs of t...

Two members of the gang which murdered British policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky have been charged with stabbing a fellow prison inmate

BBC News : Yusuf Abdillh Jamma, 20 and Muzzaker Imtiaz Shah, 25, were sentenced to life in prison following the shooting of the officer in B...

Zimbabwe's annual rate of inflation jumped to 7,638% in July according to the first official figures to be published for three months

BBC News : The Central Statistical Office said inflation had more than doubled since May - the last official data released. Since then the g...

Indian Muslims are largely illiterate and poor

Soutik Biswas : As historians tell it, during India's first election in 1952, Jawaharlal Nehru was already worrying about the feeble rep...

Violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border is increasingly spilling northward into the cities of the American Southwest

Richard A. Serrano : In Phoenix, deputies are working the unsolved case of 13 border crossers who were kidnapped and executed in the desert....

More than half the African-American and Hispanic applicants for teaching jobs in Massachusetts fail a state licensing exam

Tracy Jan : More than half the black and Hispanic applicants for teaching jobs in Massachusetts fail a state licensing exam, a trend that ha...

A controversial scholar claims modern culture was born in the foothills of the Alps

Andrew Curry : The search for the origins of civilization has taken archaeologists to less pleasant places than Swabia. Nestled between Fran...

The color of your eyes could determine your achievements in life, say scientists

Ben Clerkin : They claim those with blue eyes are more likely to sparkle academically than those with brown. They are more intelligent and g...

Israel will in future turn away all illegal entrants from Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur, a top official says

BBC News : The policy applies to new arrivals only, while some 500 people from Darfur already in Israel will be permitted to stay for "...

More Swiss than Rwandans have a gene for unusually good emotional memory

The Economist : PEOPLE remember emotionally charged events more easily than they recall the quotidian. A sexual encounter trumps doing the g...

All South Africans are settlers, regardless of their skin color, and their DNA carries the proof

Lynnette Johns : So says Dr Wilmot James, head of the African Genome Project, a distinguished academic, sociologist and, more recently, hono...

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