Intel is running an ad that some Americans may find objectionable — I certainly did. But C-Net News cheerfully explained the industry advertising campaign as follows…

Intel’s “rock star” ads will try to show that Intel is more than just microprocessors–a theme of its broader ad campaign to launch on Monday.

One of the first Internet-based ads focuses on Ajay Bhatt, an Intel Fellow who was one of the principal engineers behind the development of USB, a crucial Intel technology used in virtually all PCs today. (Intel engineers in the ads are personified by hired actors. “Several of the engineers we’re personifying confided that acting isn’t within their comfort zone,” said Sandra Lopez, Intel’s global consumer marketing manager in a statement.)

The new global “Sponsors of Tomorrow” campaign is Intel’s biggest marketing campaign in three years and the first that focuses on the Intel brand and not a processor product.
[Intel ads spotlight 'rock star' engineers, C-Net News, May 7, 2009]

Check it out.

Where to start?! First of all, the “rock star” ad is thinly disguised diversity propaganda to make citizens surrender to workplace displacement by foreigners. The ad shows properly indoctrinated American workers swooning in adoration at the sight of an Indian who is clearly superior to them; the citizens are submissive and the Indian is dominant. One message is how the cubicle employees should feel lucky that Intel allows them to work at all, particularly in the presence of an exceptional being like Ajay Bhatt.

The ad is hugely sexist. A couple men admire the hero quietly as he enters the rather sparse break room, but women are going faint with hysteria. The attractive young blonde at first shrieks in frenzy and then clutches the arm of her friend so she doesn’t melt into a puddle on the floor. You can’t have a “rock star” without groupies, apparently.

The Indian portraying Bhatt walks with a swagger and exudes a sneering arrogance. Why would a young American man even try to compete with an alpha male of such dominance? Forget IT or engineering, kid, and study plumbing instead, because there is no future for citizens in tech.

Of course, in pitching Indian superiority, Intel is protecting its bottom line, which has gotten the benefit of thousands of H-1b workers. Companies want Americans to accept that IT business is not willing to pay middle-class wages to skilled citizens, and this ad is a part of that agenda: resistance is futile.

A mutual acquaintance of mine and the “Heretical 2”— writer Stephen Whittle (pen name Luke O’Farrell), and his publisher, Simon Sheppard—recently forwarded to me the letter below from Whittle.

I wrote in July and September about this pair, who had been convicted in July in England of thought crimes, specifically of “publishing racially inflammatory written material” on the Internet, and who fled the UK for the U.S., a country previously known—as England once was—as a haven for free speech. Upon their arrival, they immediately notified the authorities that they were seeking political asylum.

Their Web site, The Heretical Press, is not even hosted in the UK, but in Torrance, California. Whittle has persuasively argued that, based on English jurists’ expansive reading of their hate crime statues, VDARE.com writers could be arrested on hate crime charges, should they ever so much as change planes in England.

0800006408

c/o Santa Ana Jail

P.O. Box 22003

Santa Ana, CA 92701

5th April, 2009

Dear ………,

Well, that’s it: judge Rose Peters has firmly rejected our claim for asylum and there seems no point in appealing and waiting many more months for more judges to do the same. The government attorney, one Michelle Myers, conceded that we were credible witnesses, but otherwise was a fine example of the creeping Europeanization of the U.S. Her “rebuttal” to our claims consisted of a report on the European Community’s efforts to coordinate a crackdown on hate in all media, i.e. say only what Big Mother likes or go to jail. She orally argued that as U.S. Asylum laws were designed to protect refugees and we criticized refugees, we could not possibly be protected under said laws. The judge then announced she would make a written decision and I knew all hope was gone.

A further grotesque touch was the judge’s reference to Britain’s “legitimate laws” against free speech. About two years ago, apparently she granted asylum to an IRA man who had shot two policemen dead, ruling that his imprisonment under Britain’s (presumably illegitimate) laws against murder would amount to political persecution. I’ve seen America’s future, and it’s Euro-communism. We’ve belatedly had a request from the LA Times for an interview, but even if that materializes [it didn’t] it will come too late.

Thanks for your support over the past nine months and I hope you and your country’s future is good in at least the medium term. The short term does not look good anywhere in the West.

All best,

Stephen Whittle

My acquaintance wrote last month,

The situation is grim for Whittle and Sheppard. They never had much support materialize, which could have made a difference, especially in an appeal, where funding is so important. I wrote to Stephen today and quoted Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over,” in urging him to reconsider an appeal. It’s unfathomable to me that he and Simon could spend the next couple of years in jail for the writings on their site.

Your writings on this case have, I believe, been the most high-profile to appear, and as one who has corresponded with Whittle for nine months (averaging almost a letter a month), I appreciate what you’ve done–and I know he does too.

The American MSM have ignored Sheppard and Whittle, who could be deported any day now to the UK, where Sheppard was convicted on January 8 in absentia of yet another five charges regarding:

• publishing racially inflammatory material;
• distributing racially inflammatory material;
• possessing racially inflammatory material with a view to distribution.

[Two guilty of inciting racial hatred against Jews, Crown Prosecution Service, January 8, 2009.]

The legal language sounds like something out of a prosecution of drug lords. The two have yet to be sentenced, but could be sent to prison for as many as seven years.

In a separate article, I will show Sheppard and Whittle’s significance for the debate on the hate crime bill, HR 1913, which was passed by the House on April 29, and which will now be taken up by the Senate as S. 909.

In response to my new VDARE.com article on what the data show about the origin of the mortgage meltdown in California — i.e., that there’s a very close correlation in California’s top 20 metro areas between minority lending (especially minority subprime lending) in 2006 and foreclosure filing rates in 2009 — I was asked about other correlations.

I’m happy to oblige below, but I would recommend that you read my VDARE.com column first to see the highlights graphed, then come back here to wallow in the correlation coefficients in tabular form.

So, here are the correlation coefficients between RealtyTrac’s Q1-2009 foreclosure rates for the top 20 metro areas in California and the federal government’s Home Mortgage Disclosure Act database records of racial groups’ prime and subprime shares of total mortgage dollars in 2006.

“r” is the correlation coefficient, which runs from -1.00 (perfect inverse correlation) to 1.00 (perfect correlation). In the social sciences, 0.2 is typically considered low, 0.4 moderate, and 0.6 high.

You can call up the HMDA data here. (Table 11-3: Conventional Home Purchase First Lien Loans, with “Reported Pricing Data” (subprime) vs. “Not Reported Pricing Data” (Prime)).