Bigfoot News May 22, 2013

Christopher Noel’s 7th reason why he believes Rick Dyer.

7) Admittedly, this one follows quite a roundabout path of logic. See if it makes as much sense to you as it does to me.

Leading up to the world premiere of “Shooting Bigfoot,” Dyer robustly sold the idea that the powerful proof contained in the film would remove all doubt as to the legitimacy of his claims. On dozens of occasions, he promised his audience that we could expect “two to three minutes of crystal clear HD footage. Hell, you’ll be able to see the boogers in his nose!” On the strength of this assertion, many of us drove long distances in order to witness the historic sight; the guys from FB/FB, for example, traveled thirty-seven hours round trip in an RV.

As we now know all too well, the film contains less than two SECONDS of the Sasquatch in question. Whether he was given bad advance information by Morgan Matthews or was deliberately baiting his listeners, Dyer led us all out on a limb…and let us drop. Then, when we rightfully complained, he compounded the insult by jeering, “I’m sorry the Bigfoot didn’t come out and do a song and dance for you”–as though we ourselves had somehow allowed our hopes to inflate out of all proportion in the absence of Dyer’s very own hot air.

Now, those who find this man’s story to be utterly lacking any credibility in the first place will naturally point to this spectacularly failed promise and cynical, mean-spirited follow-up remarks as yet further evidence of the moral and epistemological bankruptcy of the case at hand. While sharing their disgust, however, I approach this affair from a different angle.

Dyer’s broken word and his new request, now, that we simply go ahead and resume the waiting game for another fifteen long weeks–until a promised August 15th body unveiling at a Las Vegas casino–has evidently cratered morale among his followers. Childish infighting has resulted in ousters and defections among his formerly tight Team Tracker circle and an ever-decreasing Internet radio audience. Dyer’s much-publicized mid-May Ohio expedition, featuring Dallas and Wayne, has been canceled due to lack of interest.

But where most see a sinking ship I look for a smoking gun. It is at just such a moment of plummeting confidence and organizational implosion that any scam conspiracy would be expected to fall apart, and quickly, once-loyal insiders “turning state’s witness” in order to salvage a last vestige of personal credibility. Where are they?

Detractors sense sweet vindication here, crowing as though it has already arrived. I frankly don’t see it.

Yep, where are all the Dyer insiders who are going public with the inside dirt about the “latest Dyer hoax.” Nowhere in sight. And they ought to be showing up just about now, except they are nowhere to be seen.

Dyer’s inside team is abandoning him. We touched in my last post, but it has been expanding since then. More and more insiders are bailing out. Some of the ones who are leaving say they are afraid of Rick. And more and more of Dyer’s followers are attacking his style and personality. People are saying that is nuts, crazy, a jerk, has a terrible personality, etc. Formerly, Rick’s followers all acted like Rick was the greatest thing on Earth.

However, most of those leaving are not accusing Rick of hoaxing. They are just bailing out on what looks like a ship of fools that is sinking fast. Rick continues to host his radio shows, but as Noel notes, few are listening anymore. And Rick seems to be getting nuttier and nuttier, waging incessant war on the “haters.” This war seems to be consuming almost all of his time now.

So-called scandal around Team Tracker from Racer X. The latest so-called scandal via Racer X revolves around Pinkfoot, Rick’s VP, and her doubts about whether or not Rick is hoaxing this whole thing, in particular, whether or not he hoaxed the Tent Video. It turns out that her worries are not validated when examined, and just because Pinkfoot is worried that Rick is hoaxing doesn’t mean that Rick hoaxed the Tent Video. But it does show the plummeting morale inside Team Tracker if even his own VP seems to be bailing out on him. Racer X presents this as evidence that Rick hoaxed the Tent Video, but it’s really nothing of the sort. Racer X has been grasping at straws for some time now.

Rick Dyer hoax out of Florida in Spring 2011.

Well, there you have it, a totally pitiful hoax by Rick Dyer of a Bigfoot.

Is that pitiful or what? Rick released that photo of a Bigfoot, and he shot that pic on one of his Bigfoot hunts in Florida. Later he said that he had not shot the photo and he did not know who did, and at any rate, he had nothing to do with that photo. This is Rick’s typical response when he is caught in one of his endless lies.

Dyer skeptics “prove” that Dyer is hoaxing the Hank footage. Racer X recently released these files that supposedly prove that Rick hoaxed the Tent Video and that the Bigfoot in the Shooting Bigfoot movie is a man in a mask.

The first one, comparing the Tent Video to a man in a suit, is an obvious fail.

This photo shows the Bigfoot from the Tent Video and compares it a photo of a known man in a costume and claims it is the same suit. The two are not identical and this photo does not prove that the Tent Video shows a man in a suit.

The photo below is not acceptable because the photo on the left is simply a recreation done using software and is not a photo of the actual Hank. In fact, the artist may have used that mask to help his recreation.

This one compares a Bigfoot mask with a markup drawing made using part of Hank’s face from Shooting Bigfoot that was drawn out using software.

The next photo shows Hank from the Shooting Bigfoot and compares it with a Bigfoot mask, claiming there are some resemblances. In fact, I see no resemblance at all.

This photo compares Hank in Shooting Bigfoot with a mask and claims there is somewhat of a match.

Monsters and Mysteries in America Justin Smeja Sierra Kills episode. Not sure if you ever saw this very interesting episode either on TV at the time or on the Internet afterwards, but I uploaded the episode onto my video blog in case any of you want to watch it. Derek Randles is also on the show. If you are interested in the Sierra Kills, you ought to watch this show.

Dr. Melba Ketchum working on an important TV documentary. Ketchum is now represented by an attorney in New York City. His name is Mike Sword, and his specialty is TV and entertainment. I don’t know for sure that she is working on a documentary, but this is what someone who has been following her closely believes.

Dr. Brian Sykes Bigfoot DNA study to be published in September. The Sykes folks recently released a statement saying that they were going to be completely transparent with the community the whole way through this study. The expect to be able to release the study in September.

Sykes may be a Bigfoot skeptic. A man who was in contact with Sykes for a long period last year said that his impression at the time was that Sykes did not believe in Bigfoot and Sykes saw his role or goal as being to debunk the Bigfoot myth. This person believes that this is still Sykes’ philosophical view as he spoke to him when he returned from his latest visit to the US and implied that his earlier skeptical view had not changed. This goes against statements from those involved in Sykes in the US that said he had some sort of an experience at a Bigfoot habituation site in Washington state and that now he is a believer in Bigfoot.

Sorry I do not have any more, but I do not think there has been a whole lot going on in Bigfootery lately…

Moving Beyond Right and Left

I am a bit wary about folks who say we need to move beyond the Left and Right, and for good reason.

Traditionally, most folks who say, “we are moving beyond the Left and the Right,” or “We are neither Left nor Right,” are typically fascists, often anti-Semites. The Third Positionist movement says it is beyond Left and Right, and it is considered to be a fascist movement. Some folks on the Left begin to harbor a lot of animus towards Jews for whatever reason. They move heavily into pro-Palestinian, pro-Islam and sometimes even nationalist politics. They start to make alliances with all sorts of anti-Semites, including Palestinians, Islamists and various fascist types, often White nationalists or other European nationalists.

The Islamists and European nationalists are usually considered to be rightwingers, so that’s why these folks start talking about moving beyond Left and Right. I have even seen some of these folks convert to Islam and move right into radical hardline Caliphate style Islamism. Others have started to embrace the notion of racial or national homelands for various races or nations.

Despite the fascist taint, I still think this is worthwhile thing to do. It’s insane that if you decide you are on the Right, you are given a list of 500 issues with a rightwing or proper position on every one of them. If you check the Left position on only one of those 500 issues, you will be hounded as a “liberal” until you are thrown out the Right. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. Sane people may choose to be Right or Left on this or that issue. There’s nothing irrational, neurotic or insane about it. It’s really just the normal human thing to do.

Personally I am getting sick and tired of this Right/Left crap, and I think we need to get rid of it. So many folks decide, “I am on the Left,” or “I am on the Right,” then once they decide for one side, they get a checklist of 100-1000 different issue statements and they have to check off every one in order to be on the Right or the Left. Most folks do exactly that. If you refuse to check say one box, then you get hounded out of either the Left or the Right as “not a liberal,” or “not a conservative.”

I have been told countless times that “I am not a Leftist,” and that I am actually a fascist or a reactionary. So I go over to fascist or reactionary sites, and I want to throw up over just about everything I read. I go to Left or liberal sites and like most of it except for some Identity Politics or PC bullshit which to be honest is not a big part of the Left.

I say I am on the Left, and screw everyone who says I am not.

Or maybe we need to start trashing these concepts altogether?

Liberal Race Realism – A Brief Definition

Liberal Race Realism has been described as “a dash of race realism, positive white racial identity, the leftist view of American history, anti-racism, and a base of liberalism.” The term was coined by Hunter Wallace, a White nationalist. Although the name was created by a WN, most LRR’s are indifferent to hostile towards White nationalism, which they regard as virulent racism of the worst kind.

Most LRR’s, while sympathetic to HBD, are often repelled by it due to the blatant racism and its conservative/reactionary (particularly Libertarian) bent.

We remain liberals. We see ourselves as nonracists or even possibly antiracists (probably more nonracists), and we are repelled by what we see as outright racism. We believe that people should not practice animus or discrimination towards others on the basis of their race. Further, we are liberals to socialists/Communists, so we are repelled by rightwing ideology in general, which further alienates us from most of the HBD crowd. One thing we have in common is that we are social liberals/socialists/communists on economics, and we support much of the rest of the Left project absent the Identity Politics/PC/Cultural Marxist/Critical Race Theory insanity. We are as hostile to the PC crowd as we are to the Right.

The core principle is that we accept that there are some differences between the races particularity in regard to intelligence and behavior. LRR is agnostic about whether these differences are due to environment, genetics or both, thought some LRR’s may see them as primarily one of the three. The main point is that the intelligence and behavioral differences in the races have a serious sociological and political impact on societies and nation-states, hence they are important at both the micro (individual) and macro (national to global) level.

We simply see race realism as the truth. And at some point, everyone on the political spectrum needs to accept the truth. We are trying to fashion some sort of a liberal/Left response to the facts of race realism, but it has generally been a very hard sell. LRR’s are generally despised as racists or reactionaries/fascists on the Left, and the Right isn’t very nice to us either. We are pretty much hated by everyone. It’s a lonely place to be.

Strange Goings On on Chinese Trains

A Chinese man taking a crap right on the floor of a Chinese train, surrounded by other people.

Amazing photo. Does this go on very often? One wonders. I saw other photos of Chinese trains and they were absolutely filthy, simply unbelievable trash and filth on the floor. Now here is this guy bending down and taking a crap right on the floor of the train and no one seems to care. There is something wrong with Mainlanders.

Hindu Terrorism in India – The Final Solution

Appalling video of the Gujarati riots in 2002 which killed 2,500 Muslims. The video is so sickening and disturbing that I had a hard time watching it. I kept turning away and I had to watch it in bits and pieces over a period of a couple weeks. There is no way that this would have happened in the US or in any civilized Western country. India is Hell.

Differential Mutual Intelligibility between Portuguese and Spanish

Here.

I discussed this earlier. While intelligibility between Spanish and Portuguese is high, it is not equal. Portuguese speakers often say they understand Spanish better than Spanish speakers say they understand Portuguese. The only intelligibility study found that Spanish speakers had 50% intelligibility of Portuguese but Portuguese speakers had 58% intelligibility of Spanish.

The link shows you why this is so. There are two factors. One is that Portuguese has a more complicated vowel system with nasalized vowels. The other is that Spanish is more staccato, with words being separated more in speech while Portuguese is more connected with words flowing together. Spanish speakers are lost in the vowels and can’t pick the words apart from the river of speech.

Differential Intelligence Among the Races

Bregunn writes:

Again, I’m sorry but there is no vast amount of evidence supporting an intellectual equivalence among the races. From IQ tests, high school graduation rates and sat scores to attendance numbers at elite universities, employment levels in cutting edge science and tech companies and peer reviewed science publications, Africans lag behind Europeans and Asians by quite a distance in all of these and surely many more not mentioned. This pattern is consistent and long standing, I have yet to read a satisfactory explanation other than an innate difference in intelligence and/or aptitude.

I would agree with this to a great degree. Certainly in US society, the following would seem to be markers of intelligence:

1. high school graduation rates
2. PISA scores
3. SAT scores
4. college attendance rates
5. college graduation rates
6. representation at top universities
7. employment in high intelligence fields
8. professorships
9. peer reviewed publications

One could argue, I suppose, that the reasons some races do better than others in these variables is because they try harder, are richer, come from better cultures and so on. That argument would mean that all the races in the US have the same intelligence level, but some races just try harder than others, have more money or have a better culture, hence their success. However, that does not seem to be a good argument.

Furthermore, we note that IQ scores line up very well with every variable above, adding weight to the notion that they can be considered markers of intelligence.

This implies that there are in fact differential intelligence levels among races in the US at the moment. The lineup looks something like this:

                  IQ
Jews              116 
NE Asians         108
White Gentiles    103
US average        100           
Filipinos          97
Indians            96?
Hispanics          93
American Indians   90
Polynesians        90
Blacks             90

Note: Scores normed at US average.

Those IQ scores line up pretty well with the other variables above. In particular, on all variables above, a familiar Jews – NE Asians – White Gentiles – Hispanics – Blacks continuum is seen.

So the notion that there are racial differences in intelligence among US races is simply what ought to be a noncontroversial fact. Yet this is what Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation said, and he was fired over it, and a huge hullabaloo resulted. The man simply stated the truth. Certainly it should not be against the law to state the truth. You should not be fired for stating the truth.

What is still up in the air is what is making some races smarter than others. Perhaps it is genetics, perhaps it is the environment, perhaps it is both. No one really knows, and there is ferocious arguing on both sides. Liberal Race Realists may be agnostic about what is causing these differences or may take one of the positions from genetic to environmental to both, but they must agree that there are real cognitive differentials among races.

From a liberal point of view, one could certainly argue that deprived environments, poverty and lousy cultures are making some races smarter or stupider than other races. I would not have a problem with an argument like that if these liberals would first argue that there are intelligence differences in the first place, which seems obvious.

One thing that Liberal Race Realism does is we acknowledge that there are behavioral and intelligence differences between the races at the moment. We may be agnostic about what is causing them, but these differences are surely important in all sorts of ways.

Photos of the Twisted Land of India

Disgusting photo shows a Jain temple. The child is filling up the bowl with milk to feed the sickening and probably diseased rats that infest these temples.

Jains do not believe in killing any life. While this is admirable in theory, it ends up being crazy in praxis. They won’t kill life, so their temples are full of horrible rats that swarm all over the place. The Jains refuse to remove or kill the rats, hence you have the nightmare of temples swarming with probable disease ridden, filthy rats.

Indian man collecting cow piss for either drinking or as medicine.

Indian Hindus believe the cow urine has medicinal properties. This belief is tied in with their religion, and it apparently has no basis whatsoever in science. A Hindutva group recently marketed a cow urine drink to be sold in stores in bottles like soda pop.

A decent country like the US would probably not allow the Jains to have rat-infested temples. The government would cite it as a health hazard (rightly so) and they would be shut down.

The US probably would not allow cow piss to be sold on the shelves as a beverage or as medicine. It would no doubt be prohibited by the FDA.

The Present Day Republican Party

From Daily Kos:

The current Republican Party is irrelevant to the national conservation. They want trickle down economics – well that’s a proven fail. They deny climate change – that’s a proven fail. The list goes on and on. They are irrelevant to every single national problem the country faces…

Yes they control the House thru gerrymandering. That’s made them politically relevant. But their politics is 100% obstruction; 0% productive ideas. That’s because their only goal is to serve the interests of the wealthy and big corporations. Nobody else matters.

Well, that is about right. Actually, it is 100% true.

The Republican Party is probably the last major political party on Earth that continues to push the lie of trickle down economics – that massive cuts will so stimulate the economy that deficits will vanish. They actually believe that the way to get rid of deficits is via tax cuts! Starve the state of money via taxation and that will fix the government’s budget problem. It’s insane, and it’s never been proven to work. If you lower tax rates, you starve the state of funds, as one would logically think. Tax cuts don’t do much to stimulate the economy when they are directed at the rich who don’t put much of their money into productive investment anyway.

We have had 30 years of tax cutting and where has it gotten us? To this insane hollowed out economy with the worst inequality in the Developed World, flat or declining wages for 30 years, massive floods of immigrants taking American jobs, a ruined safety net, decrepit infrastructure and a Depression brought on Finance Capital that wiped out 40% of the wealth of the average American.

Climate change is as real as the nose on your face. I am not aware of any large political party anywhere on Earth who denies that it is real. If you hear of one, let me know.

Serving the interests of the upper middle class, the rich and the corporations is not in the best interests of the vast majority of Americans.

We need a political project that lifts up as large a percentage of the American people as possible, one that benefits the American majority, not the small upper middle class and wealthy corporate elite. Neither party is offering anything like this as both parties are working only for the interests of the corporations and the moneyed classes.

We have two wings of the Republican Party now:

The conservative wing of the Republican Party = The “Republican Party.”

The liberal wing of the Republican Party = The “Democratic Party.”

Although the left wing of the Democratic Party is still a populist, pro-worker group that represents the interests of the majority of Americans, they are hated by the elites who run the party. A common maxim in modern US politics is that the Republican Party fears its base while the Democratic Party actually hates its base. Recent comments by Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel about the liberal wing of the party (the party’s base) are instructive. See “fucking hippies,” “professional Left,: etc.

One problem is the reactionary nature of the American people, probably the most rightwing people on the planet. Although Obama’s Reaganite neoliberal party is just the liberal wing of the Republican Party, 53% of Americans are so insane that they think that this conservative named Obama is some sort of a Communist (53% of Moronicans say that Obama is a socialist in polls).

The hilarious thing about these polls is that no socialist or Communist thinks that Obama is either a socialist or a Communist. In fact, the socialist-Communist part of the US Left actively despises Obama.

Check out the rage-filled comments on Alternet these days. Alternet commenters are really just the left wing of the Democratic Party, but this is the most furious I have ever seen the US Left at Obama since he has been in office. Most commenters are attacking Obama from the Left in recent days, and they get anywhere from 50-50 to 100% up-votes. If Obama hates his base, its increasingly obvious that the feeling is mutual. Daily Kos on the contrary is made up more of Democratic Party loyalists, people who are politically active. The head of Daily Kos supports Obama, so a lot of his commenters fall in line.

It is also true that the Republicans have control of the House due to gerrymandering. The Democrats won the House election in 2012 about 51-49% if you count all of the votes cast. Therefore, logically, the Democrats ought to control the House in a fair system. However, Republicans won many governorships in 2010 and were able to redraw districts in lying, phony ways (Democrats do this too) so they end up with more Republican members than they are entitled to.

There is something sick and wrong about the way we vote for Representatives. While the voting for President and Senate is largely fair, the voting for the House is not. A state like California that votes 70% Democrat, 30% Republican for the House ought to send a House delegation to Washington that looks like 70-30 (if there are 50 California reps, 35 of them should be Democrats and 15 should be Republicans).

It is also true that the Republicans have done nothing but obstruct when they were in Congress. Congressional Republicans are on record saying that the bad economy is good for the party and that they will oppose any efforts to improve the economy since that will help Obama. That is almost treasonous, but rightwingers typically try to ruin economies when their progressive enemies are in office (see Venezuela and Chile). They have said repeatedly that they voted against things that they supported so as not to give a victory to Obama. That’s just sickening. I can’t imagine what sort of a partisan your average Republican is that they take delight in such treasonous nonsense.

New Interview with Me Up

Here.

It is in German, so if you don’t read German, it might not be too interesting to you. It is interesting that Germans have taken a liking to cryptozoology. I never thought they would have. There is also some cryptozoological interest in Spain, the UK, Russia and China. Not much outside those areas though. Cryptozoology remains a pretty American phenomenon.