The poet of the piano in the Romantic age of Nationalism

As it did with Beethoven and Bach, so BBC Radio 3 is dedicating a period of unbroken play-time to the greatest of piano composers, Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849).  The Chopin Experience will last be broadcast over 17-18 May 2008.  It will include all his compositional output, about which a fellow genius wrote:-

He did not task himself, nor study to be a national musician. Like all truly national poets he sang spontaneously without premeditated design or preconceived choice all that inspiration dictated to him, as we hear it gushing forth in his songs without labor, almost without effort. He repeated in the most idealized form the emotions which had animated and embellished his youth; under the magic delicacy of his pen he displayed the Ideal, which is, if we may be permitted so to speak, the Real among his people; an Ideal really in existence among them, which every one in general and each one in particular approaches by the one or the other of its many sides. Without assuming to do so, he collected in luminous sheaves the impressions felt everywhere throughout his country - vaguely felt it is true, yet in fragments pervading all hearts. Is it not by this power of reproducing in a poetic formula, enchanting to the imagination of all nations, the indefinite shades of feeling widely scattered but frequently met among their compatriots, that the artists truly national are distinguished?

... Chopin must be ranked among the first musicians thus individualizing in themselves the poetic sense of an entire nation, not because he adopted the rhythm of POLONAISES, MAZOURKAS, and CRACOVIENNES, and called many of his works by such names, for in so doing he would have limited himself to the multiplication of such works alone, and would always have given us the same mode, the remembrance of the same thing; a reproduction which would soon have grown wearisome, serving but to multiply compositions of similar form, which must have soon grown more or less monotonous. It is because he filled these forms with the feelings peculiar to his country, because the expression of the national heart may be found under all the modes in which he has written, that he is entitled to be considered a poet essentially Polish. His PRELUDES, his NOCTURNES, his SCHERZOS, his CONCERTOS, his shortest as well as his longest compositions, are all filled with the national sensibility, expressed indeed in different degrees, modified and varied in a thousand ways, but always bearing the same character.

From Franz Liszt’s Life of Chopin.

The Chopin Experience can be appreciated on-line, of course, and for 7 days after broadcast.

Once upon a time, I had a wing of glass?

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND WHITE RACE RULE

FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND WHITE RACE RULE

by Constantin von Hoffmeister

“It is not a matter of historical events or whether or not they took place. The point is that everyone should be able to make anything a ‘res publica.’ This must not be a matter for the prosecutors and judges.”
-- Peter Toepfer (at the Holocaust Conference in Tehran, 2006)

“I do not admit (...) that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race has come in and taken their place.”
-- Winston Churchill

Nations are dead. Oceans are dry. Streets are empty. The writing is on the wall. Blood runs high. Warriors become priests. Priests become warriors. The guardians are punks. Punks execute traitors. They shoot them in the back of the head.

Unfortunately, hardly any socialist state had/has complete freedom of speech. The question is whether freedom of speech should be guaranteed or not. Should citizens of a socialist state have the right to say whatever they want? If one votes no on this question, then the question arises whether that state is self-confident at all. Because if the state was completely self-confident, then it should not fear any kind of opposition (in speech, not action). Also, if one votes no, what does one suggest should be done with those who violate the speech laws one would like to implement? Gulag? Or merely prison? The point is that criminalizing speech is a sign of weakness on the part of the state.

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Humour as a Weapon

I wouldn’t normally run two pieces sent to me by Welf Herfurth in quite such proximity.  But this one by Andreas Faust, a Tasmanian writer of the New Right, gave me a good laugh, and reminded me that political activism is often most effective when it it most irreverent.
GW

This article has been researched and compiled for the purposes of educating New Right and N-A activists in the use of humour as a political weapon. There is a paranoid feeling amongst many on the New Right that the mass media is our greatest enemy. Not so. This article looks at the ways in which activists can use and manipulate the media, rather than the other way around.

As an example: mention the 1932 opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge to any older Australian, and the first image that will spring to their mind is a man on horseback, galloping forward to slash the ribbon with his sword, before the ‘official’ representative could get to it. The swordsman was a member of a political group called the New Guard. And while this stunt was not especially humorous, it was certainly eye-catching – it remains in the mass mind to this day. In that same city in 2007, the crew of television show The Chaser made world headlines when they infiltrated the APEC forum (one of them dressed as Osama bin Laden), making a complete mockery of the forum’s expensive security measures.

In general, the media doesn’t give coverage to alternative politics (the recent 9/11 Truth Forum in Sydney was completely ignored, even though one of the speakers was a prominent Japanese MP). But ‘fringe’ views can get past the editors if they are presented by means of some humorous prank or stunt. Humour equals saleability...it’s as simple as that. People like to laugh, and the editors know it. For the mass media, the dollar is the bottom line...and the skilled prankster can actually make this work in his or her favour. A prankster called Mark Pauline claimed that “the media can never deny coverage to a good spectacle. No matter how ridiculous, absurd, insane or illogical something is, if it achieves a certain identity as a spectacle, the media has to deal with it.” In other words, instead of letting the mainstream media pigeonhole and stereotype them, activists using humour and spectacle can turn this around and actually use the media.

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Yes, Virginia, there is an intelligent design.

The theory of the evolution of living creatures is supported against the rival theories of creationism and paracreationism (ID) by the fact, easily observed, that many things are relevant to it that are not to the latter. Insects and the flowers they pollinate have intricate relationships; at least, they do if you are an evolutionist. These details are irrelevant to a creationist, who can do nothing with them. Liberalism is in the position now that creationism would be if it were considered impolite to be an evolutionist. The details that are of no interest to a liberal—unless one counts the desperate desire to suppress any whisper of a fact as an interest in it—are the weapons against which it cannot defend. If you set a fact before a liberal and get the response that you would get when providing a cat with a grape, you may have found a weapon. If you set a fact before a liberal and it attacks you and not the fact, the fact of that response should be of great interest to you. Discourse is war.

Hutchinson looks ahead: The draining of national prosperity

By Martin Hutchinson

The first quarter Gross Domestic Product rise of 0.6% was greeted with considerable relief by most Wall Street commentators; they had expected the chaos in the housing market and the banking system to have pushed the US economy into recession. This was unreasonable; the huge monetary stimulus currently being hurled at the economy was always likely to prevent immediate recession, while the fiscal stimulus of the $110bn rebate package is likely to prop it up through July or so. Beyond that, the future becomes less clear: at some stage the monetary and fiscal stimulus must run out.

As I have frequently written, monetary conditions have been pretty lax since 1995. It had been becoming difficult to determine how lax since March 2006, when the Federal Reserve stopped reporting M3 money supply, the measure used by the European Central Bank and other monetarist organizations. However the St. Louis Fed, which for the decade until April was run by the monetarist William Poole, has constructed its own measure of broad money, Money of Zero Maturity, which is a reasonable proxy for M3; it consists of M2 plus institutional money market funds minus small time deposits. Like M3, MZM began to expand excessively in early 1995; in the 13 years to March 2008 it grew at an average annual rate of 8.88%, compared with growth in nominal GDP during that period of 5.25%.

Thus monetary policy, however measured, has been excessively expansionary since 1995, in the sense of expanding the money supply faster than output. As I have written previously, the inflation-creating effect of this excessive monetary expansion has been suppressed for a decade by the Internet, which has had a similar deflationary effect through enabling outsourcing to cheap labor countries that the railroads and refrigeration did in the 1880s through allowing cheap agricultural produce from the Midwest, Canada, Australia and Argentina to be shipped worldwide.

From the beginning of 2008, however, monetary expansion has sharply accelerated. In the three months to April 21, the latest data available, MZM expanded at an annual rate of no less than 28.7%. This extra-rapid expansion is not surprising – the Fed has been terrified that the US financial system was about to collapse, and has been making funding available in large quantities in a variety of ways. Indeed on May 2 the Fed, concerned about the credit card financing market, allowed banks to use credit-card-backed AAA bonds as security for Fed loans – needless to say this involves yet more monetary expansion and further risk to the taxpayer. Monetary stimulus of this extraordinary magnitude will have an effect, it has to.

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People Before Profits - the May Day March in Melbourne

By Welf Herfurth

The global May Day events by workers the world over stand for the rights of the people to determine their own destiny as workers or students, it also stands against Corporations and Government standing over working families struggling to make a living. To demonstrate our support for a fair go for Australian workers, some local National-Anarchists decided to mobilise in the Melbourne CBD and join the planned march.

We had discussed our aims and tactics a week or so previous to the date of action and comrades were designated tasks. Our banner was designed and made with the help of a local fabric business and read “People Before Profits,” the people are more than worker bee’s or economic beings, we have an identity and spirit much deeper than our careers or petty consumerism.

Once the day arrived, we met at a designated location with time before the march to discuss in more detail what our “plan of action” would be. The conversation became more casual as we waited for the neo-Communist and Unionist groups to begin their march from Trades Hall. Our main goal was to make a presence representing National-Anarchist ideas in support of struggling working folk, our secondary aim fell in line with the Strategy of Tension; showing the traditional Left that they no longer had a monopoly on their sacred May Day and we have as much a right as they do to march.

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Obama’s Grandmother and related issues

By Bo Sears

Slurs that never happened

USA TODAY ran an article on 4/8/08 headlined “Obama’s grandmother set own trail”.  It shines a light on US Senator Barack Obama’s willingness to lie about his own grandmother using negative language about one panhandling African-American at a bus stop in Hawaii:

Obama and Soetoro-Ng lived with their grandparents Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, and later with their mother, Ann Dunham, in 1970s Honolulu, where white people were routinely the target of discrimination.

Sam Slom, a Bank of Hawaii economist then, who is now a Republican state senator in Hawaii, recalls that as a part of the white — or “haole” — minority in Hawaii, he would regularly see housing ads that made no effort to hide racial preferences. He says he remembers ads that read, “No haoles” or “AJAs (Americans of Japanese ancestry) Only” or “No Japanese.”

“That’s the way it was,” Slom said. “Did people talk about race? We had local jokes … like that ‘pake’ (Chinese) guy or the ‘yobo’ (Korean) who did this or that. I certainly got my share of haole jokes.”

Madelyn Dunham’s views on race came into play in a speech Obama gave March 18 in Philadelphia designed to both denounce and defend his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

In the speech, Obama linked Wright and his grandmother when he said, “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”

Obama’s campaign declined to make Dunham available for interviews or to say whether the Illinois senator alerted her before delivering the speech.

Dunham has repeatedly declined to comment to reporters, and Soetoro-Ng declined to comment on Obama’s speech about Wright or their grandmother’s attitudes on race.

Others who know Dunham were caught off guard by that mention in Obama’s speech.

“I was real surprised that he indicated that,” said Dennis Ching, who was a 23-year-old management trainee under Dunham beginning in 1966. “I never heard her say anything like that. I never heard her say anything negative about anything. And she never swore.”

“I never heard Madelyn say anything disparaging about people of African ancestry or Asian ancestry or anybody’s ancestry,” Slom said.

One of Obama’s two books describes his learning of his grandmother’s allegedly abusive language from his slacker grandfather who confided that alleged information to Obama. But Obama in neither of his books mentions any slurs toward any demographic said in his presence by his grandmother. The article referenced above states that there is no record and no witness to corroborate Obama’s remarks.  One witness even confirms that the grandmother never engaged in hateful speech. So Obama is not just involved in left-wing racialist politics and hate speech ("acting white,” “white resentment"), he appears willing to lie about his own grandmother ("a typical white person") on that point. In contrast, his former pastor, Rev. Wright, made remarks in his recent PR binge this past week that he would never accept slurs against his own parents—apparently that lesson didn’t stick with Obama.

Haole and beatings

But the second thing to notice in the article is the matter-of-fact way in which the writer (Dan Nakaso) speaks of “haole” as an accepted name for the diverse white Hawaiians even back in the 1960s, and of rampant discrimination against them.

This is a cautionary tale that says, while we wait for the general awakening and the return of the freedoms of association and contract, we must act to resist defamation for our children’s sake, to preserve their right to a decent sense of self-respect. Although it is not mentioned in the article, it is well-known on the West Coast that the last day of school in Hawaii is what we have on May 1 in schools here in California, namely a “beat-up whitey” day. In California it is known in graffiti as “JWD” day, an acronym for “Jump Whitey Day.”

Yes, even though Resisting Defamation is limited to fighting slurs, hate caricatures, negative stereotypes, and white-baiting canards, it appears obvious that a second measure that will need to be taken will be the creation of self-defense voluntary units to protect young diverse white American and European students.  What can the white Hawaiian parents be thinking to allow their children to be targeted for slurs and beatings just because of the color of their skin?

On an interesting election night

Thursday’s tranche of local authority elections, which comprised about 37% of the country’s council seats, have delivered a withering if hardly unpredicted verdict on Gordon Brown and his exhausted administration.  At 24% of the total of votes cast, Labour is languishing in third place behind the LibDems (25%) and twenty points adrift of David Cameron’s Tories.

In general election terms such dominance could deliver Cameron a parliamentary majority in the range of 150 seats.  Labour will now slowly, but slowly come to terms with its two available choices:-

1. The high-risk strategy of dumping Brown within the next twelve months to give young master Balls time to win the public over, or

2. Running with Brown in the knowledge that the 2010 election cannot be won, while accepting that the zeitgeist has shifted away from them and a lengthy period of self-examination must be entered upon before change is made.  In this event Harriet Harman would shoulder the task of temporary party leader, as Margaret Beckett did after the sudden death of John Smith in 1994.

I think the party will choose the second option, and I will predict now that the run-off for the leadership will be between Ed Balls and John Cruddas, with David Miliband as the kingmaker.

Either way, it will be Cameron in Downing Street.  That is clear.

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Persecution, Privilege and Power by Mark Green

I think the most interesting thing about the following site is Mark Green’s webcast video interviews, but I’m sure the book is worth a look too:

This is the sort of thing that I believe Osama Bin Laden was referring to when he declared that the West would undergo an “ideological collapse” if it invaded Iraq for Israel.

Enemies of the state

By David Hamilton

Slowly, and the elites hope imperceptibly, we are being brought under repressive state control operated by not only the police but also bureaucrats.  It goes largely unnoticed because the new laws and regulations seem unconnected, and journalists and opposition politicians are part of the same ruling caste.  But if you look at the new laws and regulations as a trend rather than independent Acts it becomes clear.

“Your papers please” is a phrase associated with Hitler’s Gestapo at a time when people without papers were taken to detention centres.  But it is beginning here. The Daily Mail of 21st March 2007:-

British citizens will be quizzed on up to 200 different pieces of personal information in a 30 minute grilling when they apply for a passport.  Those who fail to convince the bureaucrats they are who they say will be denied a travel document or face a full investigation by anti-fraud experts.  There is no formal appeal process.

Peter Mandelson, the European Trade Commissioner, once said: “We are now entering the post-democratic age.” To put it more directly: an era of the totalitarian control of people by the state.  Politically, w are in the grip of a narrow ruling elite, an “Ideological Caste” that admits only those into power with the same views, and expels in disgrace any who dissent, as in the public humiliation and sacking of leading scientist Dr.James Watson.

The Ideological Caste is the emergent elite of the Cultural Marxist era.  They do very well out of it … earning vast sums of money, living in the best areas, sending their children to the best schools.  But impose equality on the rest of us.  They claim to be correcting centuries of unfairness.  But they police our thoughts and oppress us if our views different from theirs.

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Iraq and Heartland of the Coalition

Iraq and Heartland of the Coalition
By
Robert Reis

A coalition of foreign armies recently invaded and occupied a Middle Eastern nation. It overthrew the existing government and distributed a symbolic deck of playing cards with the images of deposed politicians, officials and military officers that they wanted their soldiers to kill or capture.

The coalition ignored its obligations under the laws of war to protect the property and the cultural heritage of the occupied country. It abolished the existing police and army of the occupied country and allowed the systematic looting of the historic patrimony of the defeated.

The coalition destroyed and has left unrestored the water, sewage treatment and electrical generating infrastructure in much of the occupied country.

The coalition fostered, encouraged and tolerated the outbreak of murderous interethnic conflicts among the various religious and ethnic components of the occupied country.

Despite the overwhelming technical superiority of the weaponry available to the coalition forces, the indigenous population has accepted the cost in blood of forming resistance groups that target the foreign soldiers, the foreign administrators and the native collaborators.

How does this relate to situation of the formerly dominant indigenous population of the heartland of the coalition currently waging war in the Middle East?

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Los Angeles on the leading edge

From the Daily Telegraph:-

Los Angeles is becoming a “Third World city” with immigrants making up half its workforce, says a new study. A third of immigrants have not graduated from high school and 60 per cent do not speak English fluently, the Migration Policy Institute [they mean the National Center on Immigrant Integration - Ed] found.

It said this left immigrants ill-equipped to fill California’s fastest-growing occupations, such as computer software engineering and nursing. The organisation added that as the so-called baby boomers reach retirement age, a similar pattern will spread across the US.

Ernesto Cortes Jr, of the Industrial Areas Foundation, a think-tank that specialises on social change, claimed Los Angeles was at a crossroads.

“The question is are we going to be a 21st century city with shared prosperity, or a Third World city with an elite group on top and most on near poverty wages?” he said.

Lynn and Vanhanen already have the answer to that.  But, then, so have we.  It seems that the only people who haven’t are sitting in government offices.

As one of these, the NCII cleaves unquestioningly to the official line.  It’s LA report (pdf) is a typical government document, full of the presumption of men who are not paid to think.  The word gang does not appear in it.  Nor does the word crime.  Nor does the word trust.  There are only challenges.  Lots of them.  As in ..

… Los Angeles is not only on the leading edge due to demographic change, it is also on the leading edge of the many unresolved immigrant integration issues facing our nation and the cities and states where immigrants now reside.  The future vitality of the Los Angeles economy and the body politic depends on immigrants and their children - and on the investments made in integrating them into the mainstream of civic life and the economy.

And there are opportunities, too.  As in ...

As it engages and responds to the opportunities and challenges these trends present, Los Angeles is illuminating the path for other localities and policymakers at all levels of government who are beginning to grapple with the imperative of immigrant integration and the ad hoc nature of most responses so far.

and, my favourite ...

A strategy that builds on demography and catalyzes informed engagement of immigrants and other stakeholders could create the energy and focus needed to address the challenges and opportunities posed by integration issues, and, at the same time, build a vibrant and more cohesive Los Angeles community.

What this report really says in its 74 windy and repetitive pages can be reduced to one sentence ...

The government machine is institutionally incapable of absorbing evidence contrary to its foundational belief in the imminence of the multiracial paradise.

That’s it.  There isn’t any more.

Ironically, the degree to which the collapse of trust and racial balkanisation can be countered is the degree to which LA eventually becomes a Mexican city.  It might be pretty quick - the report states that in 2000, 36% of the LA population was foreign born, but 55% of the children were second generation.

And what will the NCII write about then?

Ben Stein’s Documentary “Expelled”

This weekend my wife and I saw the documentary movie “Expelled.” It stars Ben Stein, trying to show the heavy hand of scientific Darwinists in suppressing any scientists that do not agree with the modern synthesis. That is, suppressing any alternative to Darwinism’s rejection of intelligent design (creationism). How intolerant is science to intelligent design? From watching the movie not much—Stein only covers a couple of examples, spending most of the movie showing him walking from one campus or office to another.

The primary premise in the movie is that the simplest organisms that first evolved on earth are far too complex and statistically could not have been created from the primordial soup without a designer. The purpose of Stein’s movie seems to be not so much against science, as to show that there is a god because life needed a designer to even begin the process of evolution. And why is such an intelligent person like Stein taking on this issue? I can only speculate, but it seems to be part of the Neocon’s strategy to maintain the guiding hand of the prophets (primarily the Jews), the administrators like Bush and other government officials, and the masses who need religion in place of open intellectualism. That is, the masses do not need the truth, but need a sustaining dogma to follow blindly where the Neocons lead them.

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San Jose Mercury News Bid to… ?

As with the story cited in ”New York Times Bid To Make Obama Genuflect More?” and its (end of article) admission that “almost all the jobs lost by men in the 25 to 54 age group have been lost by whites”, it will come as no surprise to my readers here at MR that there is a New TB threat: Global ties bring an ancient disease to Silicon Valley.

However, when the source is the primary newspaper of Silicon Valley, the San Jose Mercury News, we are compelled to inquire:

What’s the agenda?

Is this yet another bid to make Obama, a clear vectorist, genuflect more?  Plausibly except for one thing: 

Vectorism is Holocaustianity‘s central (if unspoken) dogma for gentiles (and sacrificial Jews in diaspora), and the San Jose Mercury News is clearly targeting those outside of Israel.  This seems more than just another ploy for political extortion by the Theocracy.

Is this the harbinger of a fundamental schism within the Western power structure?

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Peter Hitchens: Was WW2 pointless?

The Daily Mail is a ghastly little rag.  It makes its money by throwing tidbits to the apoplectic classes.  Apoplectica - never an attractive demographic, but also never slow on the patriotic uptake - duly responds with much harrumphing and general, if meaningless, indignation.

Master valve open.  Hot air released.  Situation normal.

It’s a curious kind of handcart for the ride to hell.  But since 2001 the Mail has been able to boast among its columnists the doyen of thinking cart-pullers, Peter Hitchens.  It even gave him his own blog soapbox.

Hitchens, of course, is famously conflicted with his brother Christopher, the infinitely more successful and recently-Jewish one-time Bilderberger and liberal galáctico.  One can only imagine with what disdain the bibulous god-basher must view his brother’s professional domicile in right-wing populism.  But I’ve a sneaking suspicion that matters took a serious turn for the worse over the cornflakes this morning.

The headline won’t have helped: Was World War Two just as pointless and self-defeating as Iraq, asks Peter Hitchens.

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Like the Roman, forty years and ten million immigrants ago

Here is the full text of Enoch Powell’s speech to the Annual General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre, at the Midland Hotel, Birmingham on 20th April 1968.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.

Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: “If only,” they love to think, “if only people wouldn’t talk about it, it probably wouldn’t happen.” Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical.

At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly shirk it deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after.

A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man employed in one of our nationalised industries. After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said: “If I had the money to go, I wouldn’t stay in this country.” I made some deprecatory reply to the effect that even this government wouldn’t last for ever; but he took no notice, and continued: “I have three children, all of them been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family. I shan’t be satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas. In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.”

I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?

The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that his country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking - not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history.

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Conscious decision belated. Anti-racism belied. But as with these, so with you and me.

A study by Professor John-Dylan Haynes, who is the Bernstein Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute, has cast fresh doubt upon the existence of free will.

Unconscious decisions in the brain

Already several seconds before we consciously make a decision its outcome can be predicted from unconscious activity in the brain. This is shown by a study of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, in collaboration with the Charité University Hospital and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin. The researchers from the group of Professor John-Dylan Haynes used a brain scanner to investigate what happens in the human brain just before a decision is made. “Many processes in the brain occur automatically and without involvement of our consciousness. This prevents our mind from being overloaded by simple routine tasks. But when it comes to decisions we tend to assume they are made by our conscious mind. This is questioned by our current findings.”

... In the study participants could freely decide if they wanted to press a button with their left or right hand. They were free to make this decision whenever they wanted, but had to remember at which time they felt they had made up their mind. The aim of the experiment was to find out what happens in the brain in the period just before person felt the decision was made. The researchers found that it was possible to predict from brain signals which option participants would take already seven seconds before they consciously made their decision. Normally researchers look what happens when the decision is made, but not what happens several seconds before. The fact that decisions can be predicted so long before they are made is a striking finding.

This unprecedented prediction of a free decision was made possible by sophisticated computer programs that were trained to recognize typical brain activity patterns preceding each of the two choices. Micropatterns of activity in frontopolar cortex were predictive of the choices even before participants knew which option they were going to choose. The decision could not be predicted perfectly, but prediction was clearly above chance. This suggests that the decision is unconsciously prepared ahead of time but the final decision might still be reversible.

... Haynes and colleagues now show that brain activity predicts even up to 7 seconds ahead of time how a person is going to decide. But they also warn that the study does not finally rule out free will: “Our study shows that decisions are unconsciously prepared much longer than previously thought. But we do not know yet where the final decision is made. Especially we still need to investigate whether a decision prepared by these brain areas can still be reversed.”

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More So-Called “News” About European Genetic Clusters

From “Discerning the Ancestry of European Americans in Genetic Association Studies”:

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Campaign to Protect the Corrupt Rich

From Kevin MacDonald’s Blog:

Campaign Against Me by the SPLC

April 12, 2008

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been conducting a campaign against me since September, 2006. As part of this campaign, academic departments at CSULB are being pressured into releasing negative comments on my work. The History Department has complied with this pressure and has released a statement on my work:

CSULB History Department Statement of April 4, 2008

Reply #1 on Jewish involvement in influencing U.S. immigration policy

Reply #2 on Issues in European social history.

Jews are a classic case of what is called ”market dominant minorities” and have been instrumental in importing from Mexico and Latin America the gross centralization of wealth so characterizing those states—a centralization of wealth from which Jews derive great power and benefit.  Defending such a market dominant minority—which is decreasing the lot in life of lower class Americans—doesn’t seem to be a proper activity for some organization calling itself “The Southern Poverty Law Center” unless we are to assume that their charter is to promote poverty among southerners—in which case it is a perfectly reasonable moniker.

You can support Prof. Kevin MacDonald by purchasing his latest book, hot off the press:  Cultural Insurrections: Essays on Western Civilization, Jewish Influence, and Anti-Semitism.

UPDATE: And they just never seem to learn:

‘PHOENIX - The mayor wants the FBI to investigate whether the local county sheriff has violated any civil rights laws with his recent high-profile crackdowns on illegal immigrants.’
...
‘In an April 4 letter to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Mayor Phil Gordon asked the agency and the Justice Department’s civil rights division to examine what he called discriminatory harassment and improper stops, searches, and arrests by sheriff’s deputies in Maricopa County, which encompasses the metropolitan area.’
...
‘Last week, the Arizona Ecumenical Council and American Jewish Committee issued a joint letter saying the patrols “evoked a ‘police state’ atmosphere” and led to “detainment on the basis of a racial profile and dehumanization of innocent people.“‘

‘They were joined Friday by the Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League, which echoed calls for a Justice Department investigation.’

Go Urban?

Some have asked, “What’s the problem with all of these ‘get out of the cities’ guys?  Go urban, map out your area of operation, stock up, form a plan with your (black and mestizo? - gt) neighbors.  The real value is in the cities, not out in the fields.  Think Stalingrad instead of Red Dawn.”

Okay, let’s “Think Stalingrad.”

Until Stalingrad the Reich’s military success was due to armored and mechanized tactics.  Stalingrad, transformed to rubble, hindered those tactics.  Long German supply lines were frequently attacked and fuel supplies cut-off.  The Reich’s mechanized advantage was effectively neutralized.  The Battle for Stalingrad became a numbers game – dominated by men equipped with short-range firearms.

Lessons learned from this experience?  Primarily two:  a) avoid long supply lines and b) don’t attack urban areas with tanks.  Instead, deny essential services and let the cities tear themselves apart.

So, what sort of White man would allow himself to be trapped like a rat in the urbs and ‘burbs under these circumstances?  A better question might be what sort of man would subject his White family to urban chaos, starvation, dehydration and almost certain rape and death?

Short answer:  a fool.

Many thanks to 2R for introducing us to the counter-terrorist consultant John Robb.

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New York Times Bid To Make Obama Genuflect More?

The New York Times reports that:

Men in the prime of their working lives are now less likely to have jobs than they were during all but one recession of the last 60 years… The government breaks down the figures by race, and those figures show that over the last year almost all the jobs lost by men in the 25 to 54 age group have been lost by whites[emphasis JAB], with most of those losses affecting men ages 35 to 44.

The second sentence above was relegated to the end of the article.

Now we all know, from reading many articles about it in VDARE over the years, that this is old news.

The question for us to ask ourselves about the New York Times is “Why now?”

The most obvious answer is that in the absence of a “terrorist attack” on the US, Obama looks likely to be the next President and is cutting deals now to lock in that victory.

Might the New York Times authorities be saying to the next President: “See what we could do if we just changed the order of these paragraphs?”

The true face of Leonardo?

Well, maybe.  Here’s something I picked up off the IHR circular, and thought might be worth posting if the advertising content on the original could be pruned.  It could.

So here is a four-minute presentation by Siegfried Woldhek, a newspaper illustrator with a sideline as a Third World techno do-gooder, on his research into “the true face” of Leonardo de Vinci.

That Must Be One Hell of a Transom

There is research indicating that we tend to believe the first source to bring us video news, especially when that fount has fast-paced content, i.e. mesmerizing lighting and sound alterings. Further, the limbic reptilian brain is more receptive to these video dazzlings than the outer cortex. We have all been the literal victims of hundreds of thousands of less or more useful video “injections” in our lifetimes. By aggressively aiming for White males in a truth-propagandistic market from which Multi-Culted “elites” have walked away in derision—much as they did when they left a billion dollars on the table for Mel Gibson—Podblanc is able to repackage the present and coming societal disorder as adventure. The United States Federal Reserve USD will continue its precipitate capitulation; meanwhile, Podblanc intends to awaken the literal possibilities for planetary White-minority unanimity of intent involving the cooperative working together across our caucasian cultures, reversing our declining numbers, and generally dispelling our internalized, propospheric-borne self-loathings, particularly within the abused, upcoming generations.

Podblanc will have been online one year as of May 26th, 2008.

PODBLANC

Microcommunity:  A Definition

There is a need to define ”Microcommunity.” Defining the word should clear up some misconceptions.  The following is my definition.  Feel free to offer constructive criticism:

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