Review of   UK Mensa (the organisation and attempt to monopolise ‘high IQ’ people)   and old A4 & A5 Monthly Magazines

You may well have never heard of 'Mensa', a senescent organisation that never achieved its early nominal expectations, in my view unfortunately

RW   2000,   24 January 2013,   November 2022, December 2022, & Feb 2023 & Sep 2023






PART ONE   c. 1946-2000

'Birdman' in Mensa USA caused a stir. This was John Bryant in about 2000, when he wrote on Jews, and I think may have had his article printed in the US Mensa magazine. The piece includes collected emails from silly Americans with Bryant's witty replies.

PART TWO   c. 2000-2022

PART THREE   SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS   November 2022

PART FOUR   GRAND SECRETIVE PLANS FOR 2023!   December 2022

‘Where Clever Belongs’   Feb 2023. Just notes on more nonsense

IQ the Mensa Magazine   March/April 2023

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PART ONE   c. 1946-2000

In 1945, after the Second World War officially ended, Professor Sir Cyril Burt, the best-known psychologist in Britain, suggested, in a BBC radio talk on Utopian societies (an interest of H G Wells) that an association might be set up consisting of individuals with an IQ score in the highest 1% of the population.

Burt's motive may have been meritocratic—he thought even poor and un-aristocratic people should have their opportunities; besides which, industry needed expertise. Burt (1883-1971; aged 56 in 1939) seems to have had unofficial medical education through his family; but studied classics at Jesus College, Oxford. At a time when there was little academic psychology, Burt seems to have eased his way in, being reassuring normal. He had some exposure to psychoanalyis (Freudian, Jewish) at the Tavistock. By 1931 he was Professor of Psychology at U.C.L. University College, London, was a 19th century foundation, associated with Jeremy Bentham, was set up in opposition to universities expecting adherence to the Church of England. There are Jewish intricacies throughout.
      Bear in mind that psychology and mental testing had something like a seal of approval from people who wanted the 'Great War'; intelligence testing in effect looked for employees who wouldn't think of questioning such things as war aims. I.Q. tests from the start looked for speed but not depth.

In 1946, two barristers, an Aussie Roland Berrill and an Englishman Dr. Lancelot L. Ware, the latter having a solid background in science, set up 'Mensa' in England, as something like a select dining club, the name being suggested by Arthur's legendary round table. Or so the story goes; at any rate, they received publicity in the rationing and controlled society of England. Berrill designed a special identifying Mensa tile for fireplaces; and relaxed the requirement to 2%, apparently to allow for more women. (There may well have been other such societies, too, though I'm not aware of any; but perhaps the Jewish-owned media gave any others no publicity).
      All this is well-known; the detail here is from Cyril Burt's 21-page introduction, in which Serebriakoff was described as 'an ideal secretary' of Mensa, though nothing was said about the actual nitty-gritty of establishing such an organisation. Burt introduced Victor Serebriakoff's book A Mensa Analysis and History published in 1966 (copyright 1965, published in London by Hutchinson)—almost exactly twenty years after the society was founded. By then it claimed something like 10,000 members.

IQ tests followed the format of written examinations, I suppose because papers could be taken away and marked, and the procedure is relatively cheap. There seems to have been no attempt to test (e.g.) oratorical or persuasive skill, acting abilities, or persistence. 'Creativity' was, and remains, unsettled and untested. The tests included several types of question:– verbal (anagrams, missing words, sentence order, word pairs..., but not literary quotations or grammatical correctness, though simple understanding of meaning was included—much like cryptic crosswords); mathematical (arithmetic puzzles, series, symbols..., but not geometry or algebra or logic); and 'visuo-spatial' (drawings, diagrams, 3-D interpretations, but not engineering or architectural problems, or for that matter knitting patterns).

There's a definite tendency for high IQ people, or at least Mensans, to be in pencil-and-paper occupations:– computer programmers, accountants, engineers, architects, teachers of academic subjects. In fact, one motive for introducing such tests was to identify promising employee types. There are many difficulties in compiling such tests, which I won't detail here.
      From the start, and continuing to the present, there was a dichotomy in Mensa between people looking for a social organisation, friends and/or lovers, and people thinking in terms of intellectual progress. In fact other organisations (London Village and InterVarsity Club in Britain are two which were known to me) were set up which provided similar, but almost entirely social, facilities. From time to time Mensans have suggested the group opinions or brainstorming of their members could be sold to businesses, though as far as I know nothing came of any such hopes.

Victor Serebriakoff (who wrote on timber) had a Russian background; my guess is that he was Jewish, and had connections with the Baltic timber trade: Jews sold timber more cheaply to Jewish furniture makers in London, who undercut and ruined the British furniture manufacturers. Mensa has been described as an organisation run by Jews; for years its 'International President' was David Schulmann, and American Mensa (i.e. USA) is of course full of Jews, and this must help explain its lightweight aspects. Clive Sinclair may well think he's Jewish, too; Sinclair is a well-known crypto-Jewish surname.
      As far as I know, there is no recognised system for identifying Jews, along the lines of sex offender registers.

About ten years after Serebriakoff's 1966 book, H J Eysenck (a German psychologist; his popular Pelican paperbacks, many of them on IQ, were widely read after WW2) came under attack physically. In fact, his children had to change their surnames. He was probably a Jew, but information on Jews is traditionally kept very secret.

This is now known, thanks to the work of Prof Kevin MacDonald in the USA, to have been instigated and encouraged by Jews, and backed by governments, acting in what they considered to be their own interests. — Reading this back after some years, I think this was a reference to coloured immigration into the USA, as pushed by Jews. MacDonald's Culture of Critique has three lines of page numbers on 'Intelligence' in his index, his whole book being a monument to clumsy design. But nothing on Mensa in the USA.

I saw Eysenck speak in 1977; the chair, Serebriakoff, made a joke, and supplied Eysenck with an egg and a tomato for a fightback, which of course was not needed. Eysenck and a Jew called Kamin were published together in Intelligence: The Battle for the Mind (the link, which may be slow, is my review), in the format of two long statements followed by two shorter rejoinders. It was published in England by Penguin Books—very influential propagandists—and in 1974 in the USA, copyright by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Kamin says a lot of typically Jewish material on 'racism', fraud, unwanted 'Jewish' immigrants and so on, plus complete censorship of (for example) mass murder in the USSR as a Jewish activity.

The failure of authorities everywhere, from the most powerful down to rather unimportant, to enforce free speech, has affected Mensa to this day.

Serekriakoff's 1988 book A Guide to INTELLIGENCE and PERSONALITY TESTING Including actual test and answers (published in UK/Europe by Parthenon Publishing Group in Lancashire, and Park Ridge, New Jersey in the USA—there's a link with 'Humanist' publishers, in practice Jewish 'skeptic' types). His book is made up of about 200 pages of tests, which are practice tests: Serebriakoff explains that publishing would destroy the validity of the many secret tests out there. He includes tests for personality of the 'Would you prefer to marry someone sociable, or deep' type. He says amusing things on tests for creativity. The other 100 pages look at topics such as retarded children, gifted children, families, and so on.
      Serebriakoff has a rather remarkably unforced style, possibly made necessary by unkind press coverage, which those of us in the know identify as Jewish-pushed: the sort of thing Soros does now. In particular, Serebriakoff was very insistent that Mensa does not have a collective opinion; it is, he makes clear, a collection of people with nothing on common except (with luck) a very high I.Q.

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Their magazines never have articles on immigration, low IQ populations, white achievements, or serious issues generally, such as events in the USSR or the likely future of science or art. In that respect, Mensa magazines have been and are a total failure. Anyone looking for well-thought-out futurology or ingenious political insights into the world will waste their time here. The current editor in Britain, Brian Page, who's been doing the job for years, isn't even a member. Sadly he makes no attempt to check the items he publishes; looking at a sample issue, I find ludicrous errors by Ken Farrington, Ray Ward, Nicolas Ummen, and innumerable others. The December 2022 edition of Mensa says Page will step down in Feb 2023—after 25 years; a relaunch is planned.

As might be predicted, tests based on puzzles often assign high scores to unqualified people; there's another definite tendency, an entire subgroup of people in Mensa claiming (often in the letters section) that their lives changed when they discovered they were intelligent—which, they say, they hadn't known. This can lead to a kind of narcissism — many American students allegedly have a ridiculously high opinion of their own talent. It can lead to a pub quiz mentality, knowledge as prescribed statements—incredibly, the 'Brain of Mensa' contest is a pub quiz. It's fascinating to see the way Jewish lies are incorporated into pub quizzes: What substance is put into water to improve dental health? Which US President was born in Hawaii? Who was the the first person to step on the moon?
    A related problem is the unwillingness of members to consider that the tests have any weakness. I remember watching a youngish man, unkindly describable as a northern English techie, impressed by his score on one test, announcing that his figure was 'near genius level'. Almost all Mensans, and almost all magazine articles, seem to assume a high test result is conclusive proof of intelligence.
    Every few years a child is trumpeted as being of incredibly high intelligence, although of course with little evidence. Here's a typical write-up: '.. because they can think faster and to better effect than most people, most of those they encounter resent them, even their teachers. ... [they] need to be shown that they are not bad or faulty ... because ... they problem-solve, assess, challenge and verify so quickly...'
    Yet another problem is that the test used by Mensa has been around for years. If a few answers are memorised, it's easy enough to cheat, and get a high enough score. I'm fairly certain this happens often, judging by some Mensa couples.

Anyway, these factors come together in the magazines: the production values are entirely mainstream, and there's a truly painful lack of novelty, in these people who naively read, absorb, and echo back: there are articles on things like 'capitalism', 'the economy', 'free enterprise', 'relativity' which are rehashed from the BBC or popular books. There's a long-standing and rather amazing amount of belief in nonsense, such as astrology and forms of mind-reading, which has been commented on by critics often enough. And there's ignorance of anything not in the mass media: Eysenck himself wrongly stated that crimes are universal—".. violence, rapes - all governments that have ever existed regard them as 'crimes'..." showing serious lack of understanding of many regimes and ideologies.

Modern rediscoveries and interpretations of e.g. Judaism and Islam, NASA and 9/11, the forces behind journalism and politics and education, are almost completely missing from Mensa. I say 'almost': one 'Mensa' edition gave a one-sentence comment on the Zundelsite.

Here's an outline of the typical contents of their magazine (monthly, by the way)--
• Front cover design: uses approach exactly like all other magazines, possibly worse; typically with an attempt at an eye-catching headline: The end of time - this man believes that time does not exist   or   Space—the Final Frontier   or   Why do we all love him? .. Beckham   or   IT'S OFFICIAL Women are the smarter sex   or   BRIGHT BLONDE Essex Girl smashes the stereotype
• Advertising, games, puzzles, competitions, plagiarised material. Victor Serebriakoff suggested the name 'kickself' for the type of puzzle where the solver kicks him/herself at the obviousness of the answer, but such puzzles aren't very easy to invent.
• Mensa sweatshirts and t-shirts and other merchandise
• Editorial notes on who's responsible
• Smily photos of people at balls, meetings, walks
• Written accounts of conversations, debates, meetings, jokes - are completely MISSING!
• 'Suspect science' articles—popular half-truths and media nonsense—the brain, why computers aren't (or are) human, chemicals, drugs, 'exercise' etc for the brain. Nothing genuinely investigative at all
• Hidden, indirect advertising - by Mensa authors of books, other writers, Mensa musicians and record labels, language schools, poems, lectures, people wanting to be sponsored for walks, bike rides, long drives.....
• Adverts for future meetings, for example very sketchily described AGMs, weekends at Cambridge or holidays
• Regulars; these have included Jimmy Savile (who was a member—ugh—no doubt unmentioned now, though this could be the basis for a good article), Madsen Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute, one of the 'free marketers' who got British public assets into Jewish hands under Thatcher; Clive Sinclair with his implausible inventions, such as his C5 plastic electric car (I returned his programmable calculator; it only had about ten characters memory); Rev Fanthorpe, author of vast numbers of books on superstitions; Brian J Ford scientific author and lecturer; Tony Buzan, designer of a memory system, Raj Persaud ...
• One-off writers: seduced women, occult events, gifted under-achievers, a lorry driver, a whisky exporter, a creative manager, a transvestite, a report about a desirable male, marijuana ...
• Letters. Absurd bittiness, with replies which can drag on for months .... And snap judgments by people who haven't taken much trouble to investigate their topic. The editors seem to prefer fruitless inane raging to serious debate
• Obituaries. Most deaths pass almost unnoticed; name, listed with age, place. Possibly a kinder fate than some of the gushingly implausible plagiarised efforts.
• It may be worth mentioning more on the paedophile Jimmy Savile. It might be interesting to read a retrospective review of his influence on Mensa. But as far as I know this has not happened yet!

I'm afraid Mensa seems set for permanent decline; in fact it deserves it—like the BBC it has consistently been dishonest. It's a pity, since some of the people are interesting, though people looking for encounters would be advised to restrict their interest to the 50 plus age group.
      It's not too much to say that Mensa is a secret society, like Freemasons and the BBC, with concealed objects, which are not its professed ones, and which are kept from the ordinary members.


A note on its stability: it has elections and a constitution, and painfully elaborate AGM meetings: there's always some issue with election irregularities, or treasury oddities, or abstentions, or nepotisms of various types. Most of the posts within Mensa are unpaid; so there's little incentive to do anything at all. The website is generally agreed to be terrible. It's curious that fake charities and phoney think-tanks and anti-white social projects get endless funding, whereas poor Mensa seems to get nothing; apart from income from some sales items, it subsists on annual subscriptions and past capital. There is an umbrella international body.

All this is written much more in sorrow than anger; there are some notable members, and many decent ones, and some who make a considerable effort to keep the society going; plus some 'walking wounded' and many who I suspect would be excluded if tested properly. Both founders died before their lives could be recorded on websites; I met Lancelot Ware once (he told me "some people can tell who are the important people in a group") and I feel sure he had interesting secrets. But if so Mensa magazines do not contain them.

In the Internet era, John Bryant (deceased, unfortunately; he called himself 'The Birdman', of www.thebirdman.org) and Ralph Rene (author of 'NASA Mooned America') tried to spur Mensa into some kind of intellectual activity. There must have been analogous events from the 1950s to 1990s, but I doubt there's any record of them.
      Unfortunately, British Mensa has had no sensational intellectual controversies. I suspect the same must be true in European Mensa.
I added (Nov 2021) a link to the three articles on my site by 'Birdman' Bryant. John 'Birdman' Bryant on Jews, an extended version of a piece he originally wrote for American Mensa in about 2000; I'd guess this is about 2006. Published here with permission.
Mensans' E-mails and letters after May 2001 Mensa piece by John Bryant.

This now-apparently-disused site once linked to Ralph Rene on Mensa and NASA, 9/11. René was one of the first group of people investigating the 'moon landing' frauds. Incidentally, most people in the west have no idea that a parallel movement existed in the USSR, trumpeting their supposed achievements. René (1933-2008) still lives on in an Internet half-life.

From 'Papa Luigi' [Who is, or was, Larry Nunn. We met once, but I'm completely out of touch with him]:–

On the home page of British Mensa is a declaration of their three aims:

1. to provide a stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members;
2. to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity; and
3. to encourage research into the nature, characteristics, and uses of intelligence.

These were the original aims of the people who founded the organisation, however the second and third aims require one to acknowledge that there are race and gender differences in IQ, something that subsequent administrators of that organisation have been reluctant to do for politically correct reasons and for fear of being declared racist.
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Interestingly, despite refusing to acknowledge race differences in intelligence, it is obvious from reading a large number of Mensa Magazines, that there are virtually no negro members of that organisation. There are some Jews, a small number of Asians, a few Orientals and a small number of people of mixed race, but no blacks.

Note added 28 Sept 2013: with symbolic appropriateness, this magazine is to be printed in future in a reduced, small, A5 format.

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PART TWO   c. 2000-2022

In 2022, Mensa (I'm talking about the UK) still has its headquarters in Wolverhampton. It has the same concentration on games, puzzles, oddities, and merchandise. It holds contests for games. It has local newsletters which clearly are in trouble, and SIGs (Special Interest Groups) which are in trouble too, and its monthly A5-format magazine, with leading articles of the same sort as before (STRINGS THEORY - Can playing music improve your memory? | COMEDY SKETCH ... good for your mental health | ARE WE HUMAN?). The annual subscription has gone up. The chairman or director or business strategist is, and has been for 20 or so years, Chris Leek, a firm believer in 'the pandemic' and 'climate change', for example. It seems fair to say he's presided over its decline.
      The site has a forum of a standard Internet type (i.e. suggested topic; then collected replies) though it's tricky to find—it's at mensa.org.uk/forum/. This may change; they advertise that a relaunch will happen in 2023. There was a relaunch and branding exercise in about 2000, not greatly successful.
      Mensa had quite a successful collection of social groups, among the few members who actually did social things, and may still be, in a below-the-radar way. On the intellectual side, I've just decided (2022) to try starting a revisionist membership. This was, predictably, disallowed. The story follows

You may recall Serebriakoff's insistence that Mensa has no collective opinion. He added an appendix to his earlier books, given some odd beliefs which Mensans had claimed in questionnaires. Some of these—it occurs to me now—may have been probes by the 'deep state', for example on how nuclear tests should proceed.
      I've now decided on a new view of Mensa, or perhaps more accurately firmed up my previous view, which I may as well explain here:–

We've seen how I.Q. tests were taken up by the military, about the time of the First World War, for their own reasons. This branch of psychology was different from the Jewish stuff, Talmudic and weird as it was, an is. Very few people wanted seriously critical thinkers. We see how Serebriakoff (a Jew with Jewish views on Jewish intelligence) maintained that Mensa had, and should have, no official corporate view.
      Possibly this was Serebriakoff's strategic position: typical Jewish takeovers involve money for groups, usually Jewish-led and with non-Jewish front men. This pattern has been used in everything from trade unions, political parties, religious groups, editors in publishing and TV, to more obscure outfits, such as 'Common Purpose' and Freemasons. Perhaps Serebriakoff assumed that Jewish views would eventually take over. Certainly, by 1945 Jews had collectively won the Second World War, controlling world paper money, with the USA and UK subservient to them, and the USSR continuing its reign of terror. The divvying up of the 'British' Empire and the formation of the UN were part of all this.
      Mensa was clearly supported as the only high-IQ society. There may have been dozens of others, for example splinter groups from people who designed the tests, which often had dedicated followings. The financial basis of Mensa has never been made clear, as far as I know. They have AGMs, which usually devolve into unimportant squabbles. The 'Procedures Body' was often involved. I don't think it was ever taken very seriously—for example, I.Q. testing was never made into part of university entrance tests, in the way SATs were used in the USA. And nobody seems to have seen it as a source of suggestions by super-bright people.
      There is a parallel to Mensa, in the 'Oxford Union', which used the atavistic feeling that Oxford stood for honest debate, when in fact it had no connection with Oxford University—or with honest debate.

In experimental mode I rejoined Mensa, and decided to try to set up a Revisionist SIG (Special Interest Group). Clearly an important and intellectually challenging task. I'd expected this to be opposed, and my expectation was fully met. A couple of screen grabs appear here to the right. It's quite amusing to see the rather stupid and uninformed reactions. I've omitted the person who 'locked' my thread—David Denholm—who seems to be a moronic game-player type in his mid-50s who lives/lived in High Wycombe and whose self-description has no photo.
      Something like 20 years back, the same function was performed by someone called Geoff Theasby, keeping up Mensa's great tradition of treachery against intellect. I don't know what if anything happened to him.
      Ann Rootkin is another likely long-term Jewish gatekeeper type. The last I saw of her was an assurance that their new website will work; soon...

I requested my money back from Mensa, considering that they fraudulently represent themselves as an honestly intellectual organisation. If I ever get it, I'll post a note here!

With the multiple alternatives on Internet, despite their defects, undermining paid-subscription groups, I think Mensa is doomed, unless it is force-fed cash—which of course may happen; it is certainly a long-standing Jewish policy. I don't know and can't advise.
      But, at present, if you with to find a group of people who should be of high-IQ, and you try to contact them, someone like David Denholm will look up from his important game and prevent you finding them. For the age cohort born around 2000, this could be a minor tragedy, the more curious and intelligent not being able to find fellow thinkers.

I noted (Feb 2020): There's a Mensa group on Facebook, 'created' about 2006, with at present 14,672 members, not necessarily in Mensa. And three 'Admins', named as Kai Frederking of Hamburg, James Arthur Merritt, near New York, and Soheila Sharegh who seems to be female and writes in a Scandinavian language. They don't encourage intellectual enquiry, like Mensa, but are cheaper, easier to get to, and conceivably post links.—just one example of technology advancing.

2001 probably represents Mensa's best year. The Yearbook contained (I estimate) about 31,500 names with other information as desired by the people listed. Entries seem to have been up to 6 lines. This was a 'perfect bound' book, by Mensa Publications, 'in association with Book Production Consultants plc', printing I assume from computer output. There were many SIGs at the time, some rather absurd, as with BBC 'Mastermind' subjects. But computer­isation made it possible to have such material searchable online. Publicity was good, notably with Sir Clive Sinclair, and the brand was well-known. But the reality was disappointing.

Screenshot suggesting the lack of activity in the forum. New posts are put automatically at the top. The same names appear all the time. Their comments are banal. Even days later, my locked material is entirely inaccessible but still near the top.

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As an endnote, when this page was first posted, there were a hundred or more views per day for about three days from Facebook. (I can tell they're from Facebook from its identifiers on the logs of my site). Then the Facebook links declined more or less to zero. The fairly random hits still went on. Looks as though Facebook has a censorship policy!

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The Last American Word:–
Anyone who would say “holocaust denial is retarded” is an enemy. A shill at best but it doesn’t matter. The horrific blood-libel of Whites in this most monstrous of all hoaxes is beyond calculating for its destructiveness. The guy above is pure scum. - Servenet in theoccidentalobserver.net November 13, 2022

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PART THREE   Endnotes on SIGs (Special Interest Groups)   November 2022

While I was here, I looked at sample SIG pages online. At one time, there were many of these; now there are few, as you'll see, and I'll try to convey their quality. If there are references to individuals, I'll refer to them by initials only since they (or the site controllers) might not like identification.
      A characteristic of Mensa, and many of its members, is a firm but insecurely-based belief in their fixed ideas. I was reminded of a Youtube video of an 'idiot savant' ('Rainman') who quoted (I think) what he'd been told was Shakespeare's birthday, and what he'd been told was a date in the Vietnam War, of which he clearly knew nothing. SIGs now are this type of thing. Saddening.

ATHEISM AND SECULARISM   Winter 2022: there were no contributions; making this a one-person site.
    The site owner wrote: ‘[At the] Annual gathering at Glasgow. One of the saddest sights I saw at the AG was the SIGs room. There must have been a good dozen notices there relating to SIGs that were looking for new SIGSecs. Alongside that were a good few newsletters in which the SIGSec complained that they had had to put the whole newsletter together themselves, and wouldn’t somebody or other kindly wake up for long enough to write a contribution for the next issue? W’

The site's owner, W wrote a piece on schools and religious observance, and topics such as Humanists of the sort familiar for years. W made no mention of what is very familiar to me, that beliefs are largely conditional on payment: traditionally, the C of E was supported by members of the church hierarchy because they made a living from it.

BOOK CLUB   Nov 2022 20 pages, entitle 'The Library'.
Several pieces. One was an advert for a debut LGBT novel by MM, a SIG member.
    And a review of the light type of And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, presumably the same as Ten Little Nigger Boys as I think it was known.
    Reviews, or comments, on Dan Brown: Angels and Demons 2000, Da Vinci code 2003.
    Rumpole of the Bailey—‘Most people will be familiar with the TV series’
    Short story detective stories by RF. For all I know these may have been successful.

Perhaps through a feeling of inertia, these comments were of a light type, generally not even indicating the size and scale of the works or their vocabulary types.

CHINA SIG   Vacancy for editor. I think this must have been started by an enthusiast or would-be enthusiast who left or lost impetus.

CHRISTIAN FORUM   October 2022. 28 pages.
This is entitled 'Clarity' and had 12 pieces, all apparently by the SIG owner. He was very clearly a Roman Catholic. Possibly he considers other varieties of Christianity to not count. Articles' titles include When do miracles happen?, Surreptitious messages, and Ecclesiastes 10.1. All vert literal. I'd guess written by someone who went to a seminary or college and has never criticised the official, probably Papal, opinions.

CODES AND CIPHERS 73   which now only has a link to what seems to be a book production site. CREATIVE WRITERS   October 2022, issue 186. 32 pages online.
    ‘All types of fiction are welcome – stories ... poems, reviews of member’s [sic, I think] stories, and other works, puzzles and quizzes. 3,000 word limit.’

8 items, all I think chapters or reviews (including film reviews).

DeSIG DESIGN &bbsp; designers, engineers, inventors. Nov 2022. 8 pages.
Secretary IL seems to have replaced PW.
    Main items was a (with luck) petrol engine improvement, to increase its efficiency from something like 20% to something like 100%. Idea patented by BC. I've heard of such ideas before, and suggest BC contacts Norman Hossack. Luike many Mensa, BC sounds old.

EVOLUTION< SIG 2022. Entitled 'The Evolver'. 20 pages
    Mainly a report on a talk by Marshall, which looks like a book promotion effort by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. The talk looks like a non-scientist reporting on scientific ideas, which these days include hefty chunks of mistaken stuff. Interesting as an attempt including the origin of life, not part of Darwinian ideas.

FREEMASONS SIG
I seem to have lost my download here. No prizes offered for querying whether the secret and international side of freemasonry is mentioned. Just a photo and a few things.

HEALTH AND FITNESS   October 2022. 14 pages SIG group of CS, who had some sort of personal interest. Had some material on 'COVID' 'vaccine' deaths, quoting VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Effects Reports Survey, or something similar). 10,000 deaths. The sort of thing that large numbers of 'fact checkers' pounce on.

HISTORY SIG   December 2022 26 pages. About 12 pieces, about 6 of which are by the SIGSec, JMcK.
      One is on the new King Charles. A contributor talks about 'this nation' (presumably including hordes of aliens introduced by Jews) and its 'sane' constitution, which the author presumably things applies to a world supposedly of science, nuclear stuff, and climate catastrophe. A hard-won thing: through Civil War, murder, abdication, and surrender of cousins to bloody Bolsheviks.
      I wonder if this piece was written by the last survivor of some aristocratic house; or perhaps by one of the lower orders. Hm.
    We have a novel by MM on Rebecca Cromwell, who shows no sign of understanding Cromwell's doubtless remarkable achievement.
      A woman missionary in China before Chiang Kai-Shek led the Foreign Office to recommend they move out. No suggestion here of revisionist work on China.
      then BS on 'phase 7 of the Second World War'. In the Pacific. No suggestion here of work on Japan!
      JMcK on Libya, with an implication on in-depth knowledge. Disappointingly there is no analysis, just comment on oil reserves.
      Finally (I think, from notes) SD on New York, nominally on New York, including his own photos (his copyright).

I'm afraid anyone looking for serious history will find nothing here beyond repetition of other repetitions.

JAPAN SIG has only a vacancy letter

LAW SIG   November 2022.   14 pages
SIG which is all-female staffed and by Chinese? Or perhaps Hong Kong? women. KL, YA, and Rose W. Seems to be only English law; nothing wide-ranging.

Here's a tiny aperçu into this SIG. A part of the essay Laws vs conventions which is structured on principles of essay-writing and quotation of cases. With no indication of how they are selected; perhaps by computer searches, now.
      It is common understanding that conventions are “non-legal, but nonetheless binding, rules of constitutional behaviour” (A. Tomkins).1 However, as both conventions and laws are equally important and can be explained with as much precision as the other, distinguishing between these rules is more difficult.
      I have to say a thought entered my mind, that the vast population of China may be less of a threat than might be imagined. Only a feeble essay-writer could state that a convention of knotting a tie, say, is of equal importance to a law on companies, say.

LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
D. says: We are living through a time when leadership issues have become particularly interesting, especially in the national and international political world. We've also seen great, recent successes for our sporting teams. Businesses will be feeling the current economic pressure and your bosses may have adapted their behaviour accordingly, good and bad. ...

MATHS SIG   November 2022. 28 pages
ACR has pages on A-level geometry, the algebraic roots of cubics. And there's a piece on the convergence of three norths of true, magnetic, and grid norths. That's about it

MEDICAL SIG   November 2022. 36 pages
      PB is the editor; and there are 4 deputy editors listed; all seem to be non-British. The pages are entirely filled with extracts from BMJ & Doctors Net UK. A summary, presumably for medical people who don't do their own reading. There was one article on COVID; and one on 8 billion human population, noting that 'paradoxically' rich countries worry about low population replacement.

MENTAL HEALTH November 2022
Nothing except request

PHOENIX SIG for late developers and late achievers. December 2022 20 pages
Piece on cognitive development of the brain through life. Taken from convention sources; lots on neurons and glia...
      I can't help wondering if IQ measurements, such as they are, correspond to fixedness of learning, i.e. grabbing ideas but not revising them later. Many Mensa seem unable to update!

A plea: Please help to keep this SIG alive by sending me your contributions. When I joined, contributing took much more effort than sending an email; you had to get the stationery and stamps, write a letter and post it. And yet about ten percent of members contributed to most newsletters, which were frequent!

POLITICS SIG December 2022 42 pages; double columns.
AR is the secretary; the politics in largely British, though there are reports on elections e.g. in Israel and Brazil. There are also many responses, and a feeling of little cliques of argumentative people.

There's a space-filling, but vague, warning about 'causing offence', but, it seems, only on fixed bases! General offence doesn't count. Guess who promoted this sort of thing.
      Words and imagery have the potential to cause offence ... We therefore need to consider how content may be perceived by others and show respect for the identity, experience and sensibilities of all. Any content that could reasonably offend someone on the basis of age, disability, gender, marital or parental status, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation should not be included. Our newsletter content is also accessible to under-18s and as such etc

I found this SIG infinitely saddening, utterly remote from reality, in the way the BBC is. I don't think any of the assertions or claims showed any real understanding.
    For example, ‘analysis carried out by Best for Britain and exclusively reported in the Mirror reported that official figures showed that, during the time Sunak was Chancellor, an average of £23bn per year was spent on duff projects, crony contracts, and wasteful spending. The total figure calculated was £70bn’ No evidence given.
    In the same sort of way, &l;squo;Truss's escapade in turning the economy on its head .. cost the treasury £30 billion.’ No evidence or examples are given.
    Another example: ‘business vs finance in the Conservative Party. ... accountants and bankers think short term ... mindset of the accountant ... one of the reasons why much of our industry has become owned by foreign firms..’ In fact, bankers lend 'money' (credits) to governments, often on time spans of more than a hundred years. For example, compensation to ex-slaveholders was made on this basis. So are loans for wars. Businesses are usually in hock to these people.
    Another example: casual treatment of police and legal issues. For example, Just Stop Oil protestors involved the arrest of an LBC woman. This SIG takes her side, without trying to see how reasonable it was, or not, just because of how it was reported. A similar thing: in scams with vehicles and housing, by fraudsters posing as car owners or house owners, ‘the police didn't want to get involved’. They may have had sound reasons. We're told the police often have criminal connections—all unquantitified.

Anyone who realises how serious some issues are will find this SIG irritating. Consider offshore accounts, for example, and the toleration of them. We find gullibility on a scale which media controllers no doubt love. The USA mid-term elections are described by someone who thinks the English Revolution of 1649 was followed by the Restoration, then the French Revolution—with no further comment.

PRECIOUS METALS AND GEMS January 2023
Saddeningly unscientific stuff. We are told the carat unit of weight = one seed of a carob tree, which has uniform seed sizes. The German Mark in the 17th century gave the Karat. 1900s led (presumably because of improvements in the physics of weights and microscopes etc) to standards in jewels and gems. And (my words) new metals and gold processing led to yellow, white, rose, and rolled gold.
    Fool's gold most commonly is 'pyrite', with no indication what that is. We have this month's 'birthstone', again with no indication of why they were made up.

PROFESSIONAL WRITERS   October 2022, 16 pages
SIG Sec is DHB. The writers turn out to write almost all about computers, including the venerable adventure games and the website reddit/r/writing, apparently the most important subdirectory of reddit. And setting up a wordpress site.
    I wonder what Herbert Kretschmer, writer of the words for Les Miserables, would think.

PSYCHOLOGY SIG   December 2022 10 pages
    Starts with 'the psychology of astral sex'. Proceeds to a review of Oliver Sacks' autobiography. He was a 'thoughtful and respected physician'. He had a schizophrenic brother—a risk with Jews. Sacks was interested in ghosts and hauntings (if my notes are right) and 'head of the anomalistic psychological research unit at Goldmsiths in London'.
    (Since Mensa was founded, interest in oddities seems to have been a prominent aspect of the members). And there's a long article on dogs

SPACE SIG   December 2022.   About 20 pages
A fantastic monument to naivity. This includes images from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) etc and Mars and the Hubble website... And they seem to have no inkling of the NASA and USSR frauds. Incredible. The few people seem to be in a dream world. Consider this: hollowing out asteroids ... each could house millions or even billions of residents ... surrounded by a cloud of scouts and probes ... which sounds like an episode of early Star Trek or a Dan Dare cartoon.
      It seems there's a 'very professional relationship between the cosmonauts and the astronauts'. Of course there is. I can believe it's a '£16bn industry'—that is, I believe the paper money, but am less sure about the 'industry'. We're told about Sir Richard Branson's virgin orbit. And a satellite launch planned by India! (My site big-lies.org has material o nuclear frauds and India).
      This SIG edition has a mourning piece on James McDivitt, complete with photo in 'space suit' with US flag in the corner.
      There's also material about UFOs, both pro and con. I'd guess the whole site may be a part-time thing from the Interplanetary Society.

SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA Oct 2022
vacancy for SIGSec

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PART FOUR   GRAND BUT SECRETIVE PLANS FOR 2023!   November 2022

I received the 'January 2023' A5 leaflet, which has an introduction from 'Chairman Chris Leek', OCRd below. The original has no paragraph insets; they don't seem to have worked out how to insert them. I'll make no comment beyond pointing out the typically Jewish strategy of infiltration, followed by imposing difficulties, plus appointing chosen 'experts' since typically Jews know nothing beyond top-down manipulation.


‘WHERE CLEVER BELONGS’   Feb 2023. Just a note on more nonsense
This is what they call a 'strapline', 'they' being the mediocrities in charge of mass printed stuff and its content. There's an unofficial group, somewhere, who exchange emails on unimportant topics ('are teabags better than loose tea?' 'I think Cox is quite a good presenter'), and who were moved to grumble on having this silly strapline imposed. I'm told facebook has an online thing which I thought I'd mention. I doubt if anyone will notice; even with some media promotion ('3 year old genius' style) the organisation is sinking, as it deserves, like wreckage from the Soviets. I doubt that complainants have the intelligence to understand what's happened.
      A 'rejoin Mensa please!!' website appeared, perhaps by mistake, a rough outline with the 'Ipsit lorem or whatever' mock_Latin spade fillers. I was annoyed to see they'd included a picture, from a stock picture library, showing a happy group of 'models'. Note the obligatory blackish one. In fact, Mensa is noted for having no blacks in it. I can't feel sorry for Chris Leek, but he's clearly useless, utterly divorced from any serious concerns.

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‘IQ mag’   March/April 2023.   First ever...
Unexpectedly, a new title (‘IQ’) arrived in the post, accompanied by some mailshots, and in an enlarged format—no longer A5, and a bit smaller than A4, with 64 pages plus cover, spine in plain red.

Publishing detail is at the bottom left of page 1. Only 3 Mensans are mentioned—'Chief Executive: Cath Hill' and two marketers. Leek's not there. The most interesting detail (to me) is thinkpublishing.co.uk, but more on them later.
      I counted about 12 pages of ads, largely cruises and holidays and insurance, and a few things such as a home lift (elevator thing) without a quoted price, and reading lighting. I'd expect this from the general old 'demographic', as it's called. There are several other styles of advertising, book reviews in the usual sense, i.e. telling you to buy. There are a few pages specific to Mensa, one on annual meetings, the others on puzzles etc, some I presume bought in, sudoko for example from its computer generators. No meetings or Mensa reports; I don't think Mensa publications have had anything like as much advertising before.

An interesting aspect of the 'features' and 'think tank'—categories perhaps invented to space out the articles' titles—is dual participation, with Robert Ince (author) and his friend Brian Cox (another author, the 'moon landings' freak and media type) mutually supporting. Cox has six pages on NASA stuff; he is a bit of a dinosaur, one of the diminishing and dim band who think 'we' went to the moon. Not a cutting-edge thinker.
      We also have six pages titled 'Brilliant Minds', giving the 1st ten voted for by Mensans, on a similar principle to dancing-on-TV votes, where numbers are unmentioned. The ten elected ones are a mute tribute to Jewish pressure, including Einstein, Stephen Fry 'Actor and writer' and bum gravy man, Simone Weil the holohoax liar, Feynman and Asimov. And including Stan Laurel. And to accompany them, taking up the vast majority of the four pages, we have more media jews: Susan Greenfield, Tim Harford ('.. on a mission against misinformation .. with the Financial Times'), Tim Minchin ('philosophy lectures as cabaret'), Lucy Worsley ('curator of Royal Palaces'), and Nira Chamberlain, who must be a result of the long-term trawl for black intellectuals. He is said to be a mathematician, with little supporting evidence. But he does work with Robert Peston so he must have BBC contacts!

But thinkpublishing.co.uk is the eminence grise here. Their site lists eight organisations that it does journals for (NICEIC for serious electricians, Institute of Marine Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Scottish National Trust and another Scots heritage organisation, Friends of the Earth, STEP ('advising families across generations'). They don't include 'IQ', yet. One can see from this list the potential problems and need for 'Public Relations', including off-white lies. See for example Friends of the Earth (and Greenpeace) in my list of Joff sites.
      Thinkpublishing's site has insights, presented in neat tables, from their top thinkers, partly on 'content strategy'—what it is, and (repeated) how to avoid mistakes. And how to 'drive deep member engagement'. No wonder the Mensa board contacted them, especially as there are no tricky questions about genuine interests of their members.
      It's too soon to see what will happen. But, looking through the first issue with its general, standardised, everymag format, we can say several things.
      'Artificial Intelligence' is used in 'IQ' to mean ability to create text, without any understanding. I.e. assemble articles by keyword, then string them together. The piece finds little difference between AI and someone who's a sort of authorised writer, able to put things together at an acceptablly shallow level.
      Politicians have used writers for many years; why not have synthetic writers as fronts for AI text? Their names could be invented on focus group lines, and copyrighted. All controlled by the controller of the publisher. And the title editors could exchange pieces between themselves; based on some sorts of topic interest criteria. Probably this is done already, by editors in adjoining offices exchanging or bidding for writers.
      There are websites that specialise in A4 format pdf file assemblage; the most popular (in the top 1000 sites of the entire world!) is issuu.com, worth examining as suggesting trends in magazines to come. The National Trust and English Heritage magazines use that format and it is easy enough to see the temptations for pooled advertising and consumer campaigns. Clearly the clique running Mensa have no intention of catering for their supposedly intelligent paying membership.

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Research, HTML, images, all by Rae West. Full upload 16 November 2022. Revised 3 December 2022. SIGs 10 December 2022. Leek 29 December 2022. Box at top on censorship 22 2 2023. 'IQ' mag added 8 March 2023

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