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By Darkness, Guest Columnist from the Brotherhood Press  It goes without saying; there are elites and there are elites – but you do you really know who are the real elites? Well think no further; they just happen to be the same people who make our home grown scholars look like a bunch of intellectual paraplegics – who am I talking about................. the Jews of course. Yes, the Jews are the real elites; think I am kidding? Then how do you explain this: Murray report  Well there is a lot of stuff there but chief among them is the observation that more than 30 percent of the Nobel Prize winners in the fields of literature, chemistry, physics, zoology and medicine since the second half of the 20th-century have been Jews. This is huge considering Jews representing only two-tenths of one percent of the world population!   So tell me what do the Jews really have that our scholar don’t have? What’s really behind their secret recipe for success? Mmmmh, that’s a tough nut to crack isn’t it? After all don’t we have a scholarship program? Doesn’t our government regularly cull the crème de la crème and put them through the paces to produce “winners?” Don’t we even have a “nurture nature” program where we use the metaphor of “guppies” and “whales” to hopefully produce really smart people? Pray tell then, why aren’t our scholars smarter than the Jews? Why cant they seem to get it together. Now you may think this is some flippant question since I writing this now in the pantry of my office while munching on my curry puff – think again - millions are spent every year on the scholarship run the mill – many of these scholars after finishing their academic tenure are integrated into the various institutions with the hope of ensuring peak individual and organizational performance. So the scholarship program even affects those who aren’t directly scholars. We’re after all paying for it; so we deserve to know. So one more time please why are the Jews so darn smart? Maybe they have some sort of natural advantage that our scholars don’t have - maybe a big fat clue lies in the old country where those Jews came from. When God was still prancing around earth turn folk into mounts of salt, wasting whole communities with lighting rods and mega floods? Maybe the Jews have a “divine advantage.” I mean how the hell, do you expect our scholars to compete against God! (no wonder people keep on saying the brotherhood is unreasonable!) Don’t believe me? Even the Bible affirms this: “Surely this is a wise an understanding race of people…” (Deu 4.6). There you go directly from the big man upstairs. So it’s a done deal, let’s all pack our bags and go back home –we just got the shorter end of the stick and like the Americans say the rest is history. But hold on a second. I hear someone hollering, “The Jews are smarter than our scholars because of their glorious heritage?” Mmmmh sounds credible, especially when you consider in down town Jerusalem, anything less than 2,000 years is still considered modern. I mean you can’t even sit, stand or lean on anything in the state of Israel without some pesky Rabbi poking you with his walking stick and reminding you, “hey, hey, careful that’s where Jesus sat! Hey, careful there! That’s where John the Baptist lost his head etc.” No doubt about it those Jews definitely have a long and rich heritage that harks back to a glorious past, maybe there’s some truth to it all. There must be something in their heritage that gives them all a competitive advantage. You can hardly blame our scholars. What do we have to compare with the glorious Jewish heritage? OK, we have one confused Merlion that was recently struck by lightning along with a few trinkets of the past, hardly the stuff that makes the hair at the back of ones head stand up when we summon the word – heritage. But hold on a second that’s the distant history of the Jews – it doesn’t really count does it? I mean if we really look at the recent history of Jews, weren’t everyone either trying to kill, drown or maim them in the dark ages? Weren’t they like dying off so fast, even Henry IV was forced to pass a charter, circa 1090, which banned Jew bashing: “If anyone shall wound a Jew, he shall pay one pound of gold ….his eyes will be put out and his right hand cut off.” I mean if people are trying to set you on fire or strangle you to death half the time what kind of competitive advantage can it really produce? And in the 20th century, didn’t this chap who threw a party in Munich, circa 1933 called the Nazi Party even pass the Nuremberg Act to discriminate against them? – didn’t he pack 6 million Jews off? So what kind of heritage are we talking here unless you believe regularly breathing in poison gas or surviving on a diet of twigs and insects is some secret diet that produces really smart people! What’s happening here! Can someone please tell me: why our scholars aren’t as smart as those darn Jews? So the social evolution theory goes straight out of the window – what about genetics? Are the Jews genetically superior? Maybe our scholars can’t compete because our genetic pool just isn’t big enough? Do the Jews have a smart helix that allows them to carve a competitive advantage? Not really as there’s absolutely no empirical proof suggesting Jews are genetically smarter! To say that the Jews have a history of emphasizing scholarship is indeed true to even suggest that’s the reason why they are so smart is like saying the Sistine chapel is a Bible comic. I don’t doubt for one moment most children in Jewish households are comparatively more conscious of the importance of education but it still doesn’t go very far to answer why Jews are smarter than our scholars. One reason according to S. Nuland, author of “How We Die” lies in the values and world view of Jews. For one unlike our scholars Jews don’t even expect to be treated fairly, let alone to be given such a thing as a level playing field to even suggest they have a privilege to state sponsored scholarship programs – it just doesn’t exist, not even in the state of Israel! This “consciousness of disadvantage”, Nuland suggest promotes the whole idea of ‘portability” that’s why education is seen to be so important in the Jewish community (if you need to hightail what’s really important is in your head!) and probably evolved into the province of what we call today the Jewish academic aristocracy – it stands to reason, unlike our homegrown scholars who are often sold the idea of “stability and permanence.” The Jewish worldview is nothing short of a reversal of the whole notion of ‘permanence’ and instead reinforces how ‘instability’ and ‘chaos’ will always feature as an indelible feature of work, life and play. So according to anthropologist. Jews develop nomadic survival traits - they stay in ghettos in the same way dessert folk walk in single file to hide their numbers - they travel light, make do with the barest of necessities and develop skills like how to shift their weight and walk slightly off centre when carrying heavy loads, that way, they can walk longer without suffering any kinetic loss. Even more efficient that modern military backpacks! You learn these things when people regularly hunt you down for no other reason because you are a Jew! People get smart when you marginalize them - they get real smart when you start to erase their history – they put it all in their heads! So they develop photographic memories – unlike our scholars who expect to return to a cushy job along with all the predictability associated with promotion. Jews are often schooled in the “impermanence” of life. Nothing is ever taken for granted, least of all life. Jews know they can be expelled at the slightest provocation, hence they develop techniques, skills and tricks which our scholars never ever need to develop, because they are feted and chaperone around the system like crippled mandarins – stuff like how to cut 400 crystal designs which they keep in their head, never ever once having to write them down even today! Stuff like how to table a diamond with the cool headedness that comes from putting the cutting tool it and with a pray hit it with one stroke to either increase its value a thousand fold or reduce to nothingness – they learn to take risk, manage it even to even feel perfectly comfortable in an environment of constant change and uncertainty, unlike our scholars, who plan as if the world revolves only around them! Owing them all a living – is it such a wonder, there is not fight! Twenty minutes is up - I've got to go back to my conference call now - but before I go maybe, I didn't make myself very clear here Why Elites End Up Dying All The Time; maybe the message was garbled, so here it goes again, loud and clear - only losers kill themselves. There you go, the truth and nothing but the truth. Darkness 2009  Read More →

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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's incoming prime minister Najib Razak needs to take swift action to reverse declining support for the government that has ruled for 51 years, said former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. 'A lot of people are uncertain. Having watched Najib's performance as deputy (prime minister), he did not shine,' he told Reuters in an interview yesterday, a week before the United Malays National Organisation, leader of the ruling coalition, holds internal polls. 'Najib can do well, but we will have to see, because when I asked Abdullah to appoint him as deputy I had a lot of hope for him, but he did not perform the way I expected,' he added, referring to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Tun Dr Mahathir, prime minister for 22 years until 2003, helped catalyse opposition in Umno against his successor Abdullah, which led him to quit office early. Datuk Seri Najib will take power at the end of this month. He will have to deal with the worst economic downturn since the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and also rebuild a party tainted by corruption and bruised by last year's big election losses. Despite his criticism of Mr Najib, Dr Mahathir praised his action as finance minister in putting together a RM60 billion (S$25 million) spending package to try to offset the looming recession, contrasting it with PM Abdullah's performance as the previous finance minister. However, Mr Najib comes with baggage that no other Malaysian leader has had on taking up the prime ministership. He has been linked on Internet blogs to the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shariibuu. Although he has denied this and there is no evidence linking him to the killing, he was challenged again in Parliament last week over the issue by an opposition lawmaker. 'Legally he has cleared his name. But whether people will perceive that he has cleared his name or not is something he cannot decide,' Dr Mahathir said. One way that Mr Najib can fight back against negative perceptions is to stamp out corruption in Umno and the 13-party Barisan Nasional coalition, he said. 'Today the problem with Umno is that people see it as a corrupt party and it has no credibility and they really look down on Umno as being irrelevant,' said Dr Mahathir. If Umno fails to tackle corruption, it would lose to the opposition and its leader Anwar Ibrahim, he warned. 'He is not to be trusted. He will do anything to become prime minister,' he said of Datuk Seri Anwar. Source: Straits Times  Read More →