Greta oto is a brush-footed butterfly, and is a member of the clearwing clade; its wings are transparent. Its most common English name is glasswing, and its Spanish name is espejitos, which means “little mirrors.” The same alkaloids that make them poisonous also are converted into pheromones by the males, which use them to attract females.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasswing_butterfly

How does one intend to punish those that exercise their right of free speech (and it is a RIGHT, regardless of whether the state permits free speech or not)? Ideas themselves can never be reactionary. They can merely lead to reactionary processes of thought developed on paper or put into action. But this should not lead advocates of censorship or criminalizers of speech to think the nonsensical thought that speech itself can somehow be “subversive” and therefore needs to be labeled as “criminal” in some cases. The suppression of free speech is an oriental practice (Pharaonic to be exact) and is diametrically opposed to the Northern European conception of freedom in all its aspects (intellectual, physical, etc.). In this regard, Communism, as it was and is practiced in “socialist” states, was and is Asiatic tyranny. Without guaranteeing freedom of speech, a socialist state is an empty shell. Socialism promises liberation. If it does not liberate speech (and the thoughts that engendered it), it will erect a false paradise built on coercion and enslavement of the mind.

The White race again expands. Order becomes temporary chaos. Wails and chains in line! Whips and tanks at the ready! Creators create confusion. The White race again masters wells and mountains. Steel and the Seal. Language understood by the ones that only copy.

The veneration of Kim Il Sung is a prime example of the East Asian tradition of worshipping MEN as idols. It all stems from Confucianism. This kind of personality cult is totally alien to Northern European traditions where the leader is in power for the people and not vice versa. East Asians are genetically inclined to like blending into a faceless mass of robotic automatons (which is not only what the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is all about [see their silly forced Juche study sessions and their mass gymnastics performances] but capitalist countries like Japan as well [one only needs to think of the down-bowing workers at the Toyota plant in Tokyo]).

The time is near. The time is here. Guns fired. Rockets launched. Punks in red across continents ennoble. Lower races elevated as subjects. Lips lock near the Indian Ocean. On sandy beaches muddy boots are washed. Finally with a sword the Aryan Christ risen!

For East Asians it is completely normal, probably even good, to deindiviualize themselves. It is only when this practice is imposed on Europeans that it becomes a negative thing since Europeans, as opposed to Asians, prefer freedom over slavery. While socialism in Asia is the continuation of social conditioning under different economic conditions, socialism in Europe should be a process of physical and mental liberation.

Vacant eyes full again. Full of fervent hope. Full of genetic destiny. Socialism sells salvation. Genetic Socialism glorifies god-souls. Wrinkled worries smoothened.

If it is practical to manipulate the minds of the people in a Communist state, what are the benefits reaped from this action? Will people have automatically more to eat if they are brainwashed? Will they have definite job security? There is no correlation between the necessity of establishing a “dictatorship of opinion” and the guarantee that a Communist state will be a stable one. On the contrary, the suppression of speech leads to all kinds of social atrophies, including the retardation of the intellectual scope of the people as a whole (lack of serious debate [which by definition must include controversial, and hence censored in a Communist state, viewpoints] and the forced recitation of state-approved mantras do not freethinking geniuses make [free thought being a prerequisite for all innovations which spring from the minds of men]) and the degradation of social conscience (to say what one does not believe produces snitches [falsely enriching their “character” by betraying their comrades to the Party which is, knowing that this is not true, praised as being the “beacon of truth"]).

The Holocaust happened. The Holocaust did not happen. My dog died. My dog did not die. Where is the key to unlock with the chastity belt the White race is wearing? Punks in need to see a scene. Who is eating dissent? The ones who trust. The walled streets are burning. The fire consumes stocks.

Humour also wins favour with the common man in the street. Stridency and self-righteousness turn people off – but humour can get them on side. It’s considered ‘cute’, and could even help you attract the opposite sex. As punk singer Jello Biafra said, “historically the ‘Merry Prankster’ has had a lot more to look forward to than the humourless politico who sits around moaning about ‘the struggle’.” And trickster characters have a rich history in mythology and literature.
Targets for political pranks are rife – for instance, the legions of pseudo-left academics who condemn ‘privilege’ and praise ‘globalism’ whilst making over $100,000 a year. The obnoxious billboards of Benettons are just begging to be creatively altered, as are posters for phoney humanitarians such as the rock group U2. I remember seeing footage of U2 on the news a few years ago when they were touring Australia. Bono, the singer, was here to lecture people about giving more money to Africa. Then the cameras showed the band members leaving the airport – in four separate limousines! One limo just wasn’t enough. For the cost of a stretch limo you could probably feed an African village for twenty years. The band are currently engaged in trying to build a skyscraper in Dublin – an act of cultural vandalism if there ever was one.

U2 have already been the target of an amusing prank in the past. A band called Negativeland put out a CD entitled ‘U2’, with the name prominently featured on the cover so people would think it was a U2 album. When people took it home and put it on, they found it was a recording of someone insulting and attacking U2! The bloated multi-millionaires failed to see the funny side and (predictably) sued Negativeland.

A punk band called CRASS (posing as Creative Recording and Sound Services) managed to get some tacky music (with subversive lyrics) inserted as a flexidisc into a bestselling teenage bride magazine. CRASS also leaked a faked conversation between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan discussing the possibilities of launching a nuclear war. The conversation was spliced together from radio and TV statements, but was taken seriously by the media and caused an uproar.

When the US Forestry Service (responsible for a lot of old growth logging) put on a ‘Smokey the Bear’ birthday party for 300 children, an EarthFirst! activist hired a Smokey the Bear costume and walked through the crowd handing out anti-logging flyers. The kids were treated to the bizarre spectacle of the rangers trying to arrest Smokey at his own birthday! This made front page headlines the next day.

A media prankster called Joey Skaggs tricked a room full of journalists and news readers (including some famous ones) into getting down on their hands and knees and roaring like lions. He simply issued fake press releases, pretending to be a trendy new therapist called ‘Baba Wa Simba’ (the Lion King), and the journalists fell for it hook, line and sinker. The journalists were induced to take part in ‘roaring sessions’, which many reported on positively afterwards. People can be fooled into believing almost anything if it’s seen to emanate from some ‘official’ quarter. There are no end to the ways in which consensus reality can be manipulated.

Websites are also fair game. A musician from a band called Feederz once set up a site parodying CNN. To add authenticity, when someone clicked on the masthead they would be taken back to the real CNN site. As a result, some of his fake stories actually found their way into mainstream papers. It was seriously reported that Saddam Hussein was training suicide camels, and that he had plans to blow up Pearl Harbour!

A group called the Yes Men set up a fake website for Dow Chemical. On the anniversary of the Bhopal disaster (where thousands were killed by chemical contamination in Bhopal, India) they were contacted by the BBC (who thought they were genuine representatives of Dow), and proceeded to give a statement saying that Dow claimed responsibility for the disaster and were now going to do something about it. Because of this the real Dow was embarrassed into cleaning up the mess.

A group called the Cacophony Society once held a fake welcoming party for a new Starbucks, which seemed to praise Starbucks while actually ridiculing everything they stood for. A member of the group spoke of the successful nature of this strategy “where you pretend to side with the thing you really hate. It makes it hard for the subject of the protest to get rid of you.” Similarly, the aforementioned Yes Men have done speaking tours claiming to represent the World Trade Organisation. Taking WTO logic to its ultimate conclusion, they delivered lectures with messages like ‘sweatshops are great’. The same tactic could easily be employed by nationalists or National-Anarchists. For instance, a nationalist posing as a pro-multiculturalist could get invited onto a public forum, and then give a speech saying that “multiculturalism is great, because it causes social alienation and helps advance our ideal of a rootless global population, more easily herded into line...”

Obnoxious advertising billboards are excellent targets for humorous or creative political statements. A group called the Billboard Liberation Front, established in 1977, have published a handy guide for billboard alteration.  When doing a prank like this in an area with surveillance cameras, it might be an idea for the prankster to wear some kind of ridiculous disguise.

Pranks can also be played on establishment politicians. Once when Richard Nixon was giving a speech from a stationary train, someone put on a conductor’s cap and waved the train out of the station with Nixon still in mid-speech. A Texas politician called Tim Moore highlighted the way in which representatives often pass bills without even understanding the content, by convincing his fellow pollies to pass a motion commending one Albert de Salvo (actually the Boston Strangler).

Pranksters can even run for office. Local elections are easy to run in, and candidates with a humorous platform often attract a protest vote from those who are sick of the lies of the mainstream candidates. When Jello Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco, one of his policies required all corporate businessmen to wear clown suits between the hours of nine and five. He finished fourth out of ten candidates – quite a respectable result.

The contemporary art world is also ripe for satire. Australia has a well-known history of literary pranks, including the Ern Malley hoax, where two writers created a fictitious modernist ‘poet’ to expose what they saw (rightly or wrongly) as the shallow nature of literary modernism. Another one was the Wanda Koolmatrie hoax, where a writer called Leon Carmen posed as an aboriginal woman in order to get his book published, thereby illustrating the biases inherent in the publishing industry.

In Austria, a group of artists who wanted to expose the pretensions of the art world created a non-existent writer called Georg Paul Thomann, and it actually worked. Newspaper articles were written about him because he was perceived to be a ‘somebody’...even though he was fictional and his work was non-existent! This fake ‘artist’ was even chosen to represent Austria at a world art fair.

An artist called Jeffrey Vallance couldn’t get a major gallery to show his work, so he bought a number of power point wall sockets from the hardware shop, and covered them with his art. Then he went around the art gallery in a tradesman’s outfit and replaced all the wall sockets with his own ones. Next he printed up programs, and invited his friends to view his work on the art gallery wall sockets. He sent a program to the art gallery itself – and they were so shocked they didn’t do anything about it. The employees hushed it up, in case they got in trouble! The wall sockets weren’t removed, and it was only two years later that they were finally painted over.

Schwaller de Lubicz defined magic as “the science of the right gesture, the right word, at the right moment.” That is what a successful prank is – an act of magic. I hope this short article has provided suggestive ideas for anti-global activists of all stripes, whether National-Anarchist or otherwise.

Hail to the clowns.

Andreas Faust

Monetary stimulus generally works with a lag of several months at a minimum. Thus it is likely that the extremely lax monetary conditions of the past few months have not yet produced their full effect. Nevertheless it is remarkable how rapid has been the advance of energy and commodity prices, with the Reuters CRB commodity price index up 24% since the Fed began its misguided interest rate cutting campaign on September 18 last year. It is also remarkable how feeble growth in the United States has been. With the Fed essentially printing money as fast as it could, the US economy grew only 0.6% in each of the fourth and first quarters. Since the US population increases by around 1% per capita, the economy has thus been in a per capita recession since September. In the first quarter indeed, even ignoring population growth, the economy was only pushed above the flatline by increases in inventory and government spending, both detrimental to economic output in the long term.

Over the next several months, it is likely that current trends of feebly advancing GDP and soaring commodity prices will continue. Certainly the stock market seems to think so; it has recovered nicely from its mid-March low and is now above the levels when the crisis hit last August, even though earnings in the financial sector, representing more than 40% of total US earnings before crisis hit, have essentially disappeared in the last two quarters. The Fed may not currently intend to push interest rates down further, but it has already forced them more than 2% below even the thoroughly fudged statistics of inflation produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

It is perhaps disappointing for bears that a crisis may not occur immediately, but there can be no question that the vigorous monetary and fiscal medicine administered by the Bernanke Fed and the George W. Bush administration will have its effect. Indeed, far from declining in the second quarter, as has been confidently predicted, Gross Domestic Product may even tick up a bit, boosted by monetary and fiscal stimulus, perhaps to around 2% or 1% after population increase has been taken into account.

At some point, a crisis will arrive. Inflation in the eurozone, China and India is already at levels deemed unacceptable, while even Japan has positive inflation for the first time in many years. In the United States, the producer price index increased 6.9% in the year to March, while that for crude goods increased more than 30%. Like a bowling ball swallowed by a python, that inflation will move through the economic system and eventually be reflected in consumer prices. Indeed, it may already be showing up there; the seasonally unadjusted consumer price index for March was up 0.9% (an annual rate of around 11%) and only a heroic seasonal adjustment of 0.6%, double the next largest seasonal adjustment for any month in the last ten years, brought the figure down to an acceptable 0.3%.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics explains on its website that its seasonal adjustment methodology changed in January; should it be the case that this is being used to suppress consumer price inflation, even the dozier members of the media will come to notice after another couple of months have passed. In any case, it is likely that by the latter part of 2008, consumer price inflation in the US will be running at more than 10%, and that even the heroic mavens at the BLS will be unable to suppress that information completely (though on past form they will undoubtedly try.)

There will come a point at which the irresistible force of gradually increasing GDP and continually optimistic stock market will meet the immovable object of consumer price figures that can no longer be ignored. At that point, the US will suffer not merely a monetary crisis but a political crisis. President George W. Bush, with his refusal to see recession, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, with his background in an institution, Goldman Sachs and a market, the Wall Street of 1995-2007 that together bear a very substantial responsibility for the problem, and Bush’s appointee Ben Bernanke, with his continual insistence that inflation is imminently about to disappear, will be discredited by reality and unable to provide leadership. Awkwardly, it is more likely than not that the crisis point will occur before November, so there will be no fresh-faced President-elect to take control of the situation. 

Almost certainly, it will prove impossible to put the entire US economy on ice until January 20, 2009, so the financial markets themselves, probably the Treasury bond market, will take control. With the US Treasury’s funding need in the fiscal years 2008 and 2009 already around $500 billion in each year, hiccups in the bond market have an almost immediate way of making themselves felt. To avoid a collapse in the bond market and a catastrophic decline in the dollar as foreign central banks withdraw their money, short term interest rates will have to be raised very quickly to at least 3% above the then prevailing level of inflation. That would imply a level of 7-8% today, but probably considerably more by the time the crisis hits.

Once interest rates have been raised, inflation will not decline immediately, but nor will the US descend into a re-run of the Great Depression. There will be a lengthy and grinding recession, probably persisting throughout 2009 and into 2010, with GDP declining maybe 4-5% from top to bottom and inflation coming definitively under control only towards the end of the period. On the other hand, the dollar will stop being weak, since US interest rates will be internationally attractive, and the US balance of payments position will swing back sharply towards balance as US consumption and therefore imports decline sharply. The US savings rate will also increase, allowing the country to finance new capital investment from domestic resources, and giving it once more a substantial capital cost advantage over the emerging markets with lower labor costs.

The wild card will be politics. It is not yet clear who will be the next President, and it is abundantly clear that this pretty unpleasant economic environment will dominate that President’s first two years in office. As happened to Herbert Hoover, it will be possible for the new President and/or Congress, through misguided protectionist or anti-capitalist policies, to make things sufficiently worse that a Great Depression Mark II ensues. 

Since none of the three remaining Presidential potential candidates has a firm, well thought-out commitment to economic policies that would alleviate or solve the problem, and all have tendencies that might exacerbate it, the safest choice is probably to go for raw intelligence, and hope that the new President can learn on the job.

Which is as close as this column is going to get to an endorsement!

This article appeared today on the http://www.prudentbear.com” title="Prudent Bear">Prudent Bear webiste.  Martin is the author of Great Conservatives.

As we entered in behind the marchers, two mounted police officers asked what our intentions were and why our faces were covered; our designated police liaison explained that we cover our faces to protect us from the persecution of the other political groups and our intentions was to hold a peaceful march like everyone else. The police seemed to have no dispute in us expressing our right to protest and we continued on ahead.

We continued to march down Swanston behind a “Your Rights at Work” van that held the rear of the Unionist contingent.

We flew the banner of National-Anarchism for all passersby to see. We were the targets of many photographs from intrigued pedestrians and we received some positive feedback about our slogan. It is a definite that the New Right Aus/NZ website received some extra hits later in the day.

It was at this time that Anthony Main from the UNITE union noticed our presence and suddenly got all angry at us being around. He went and exercised his civic duty of informing the police [of the Government, which he hates?] that we have no right to march on a public street in Melbourne and that they need to move us on.

He then made it his business to begin abusing our cameraman, trying to get in his face, spitting his venomous hatred as later described by our camera wielding comrade. Anthony came across as a very angry and hateful man, threatening us with the “construction heavies” further up, he reckons they’d come down and “give us a hiding.” Why not do it yourself, big man?

Despite the aggressive abuse from Main, our determined activists kept on marching; we would not bow to the demands of some angry, egotistical leftist. Despite the peaceful marching from our group, in contrast to the abusive demeanor of our opposition, it was the police that instructed us to leave. We accepted the lawful request from the police; we left the marching column and honourably left the scene, having achieved both of our aims for the day.

We moved to another location to take more photos of our banner and we discussed the previous half hour of excitement. The National-Anarchists had once again taken our message to the street and once again, as at APEC, we had exposed the hypocrisy of the so-called left. The left has since the beginning labeled any group critical of their own as intolerant, fascist and hateful, yet we exposed quite plainly the insidious hatred behind the average leftist.

During our debrief and photo taking session, some young passers-by asked us what we were about and were quick to join us for a group photo in support, perhaps the next lot of National-Anarchist recruits for the next demonstration.

Soon enough our objectives were complete, the group left in separate directions and a good day of National-Anarchist activism was had by all.

The good news from a nationalist perspective is that Cameron will not be so hard-pressed that he has to talk tough on immigration, as Michael Howard did in 2005.  Nor, of course, does he have to contemplate a Sarko-style destruction of a potentially dangerous nationalist foe.  The BNP is not remotely dangerous to him.

A case of “Ken is dead. Long live the Ken effect”

Meanwhile, the victory of Cameron’s friend Boris Johnson over Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral race - by 12 comfortable percentage points on a record 45% turnout - opens up few possibilities for change, I think.  Boris is all about consensus-building, and the consensus is that “the world in one city” is something wonderful and beyond criticism.  Or would be if only transport worked better and there was less waste at County Hall.

Boris was elected by the leafy suburbs and the glitzy city-centre, where “enrichment” means ethnic restaurants and expensive shops owned by Indians.  In Tory parlance, the quiet, unassuming supporter who has struggled patiently with Livingstone’s administrative excesses like the Congestion Charge has simply come home to a Conservative Party that has “changed”.

Change means a waiver to racial displacement and dispossession because it is poor taste and “nasty” to talk about it.  Anyway, the party’s supporters were lost down the long years of defeat to Blair, not to the BNP.  The ones who worry about race are captive voters, and they can be ignored.

So where it really matters, what Boris offers is what Ken offered.  “You can’t out-ethnic me” he told one pushy black interlocutor on the hustings.

But what of the British National Party?  Are there any signs on the wind that this Tory insouciance might be found out by the long-awaited and elusive rising wave of voter support for nationalism?

100 up in the country at large, Barnbrook claims London Assembly seat

The BNP has announced on its website that the poll produced some useful progress.

Before today, the BNP held 84 council seats at all levels. With almost all results in, this figure has now reached 100, and could still exceed that number.

... There were also a large number of excellent second places countrywide.

That last sentence is something I shall endeavour to investigate later, because the below the water-line progress of the party is a more reliable indicator of its health than the clutch of headline-grabbing first places.

However, it looks pretty good generally: slow but solid progress of a kind that will not easily be swept away.  One has to seriously question, however, how it is that the unprecented concentration on immigration issues in the mainstream media does not translate into more vigorous voter support for the BNP at election time.  And that at a time when the Labour Party vote is crumbling so dramatically.

The loss of so many experienced activists last November must have told, and some of the closer second places might well have been converted to firsts had Griffin not handled the affair so disastrously.

But I think there’s more to the electoral performance issue than that, and it was demonstrated vividly in the battle for the capital.

In the London Assembly the expectation was always that the party could cross the 5% threshhold which would win it a seat on the Assembly Top-Up List, and release some sorely needed central funding.  Well, since the National Front put up a candidate for the London Assembly seat of leafy, middle-class Bromley & Bexley, and the fellow won over 5%, it wasn’t asking too much of the BNP to follow suite.  It did, winning 5.4% and giving Richard Barnbrook the honour of being the party’s first candidate elected to a significant representative body.

He takes one of the two seats formerly held by UKIP, who performed poorly on the night (as did the new anti-Union party, English Democrats).

Well, the first things to say is that Richard Barnbrook’s speech after the announcement of the Mayoral result, in which he was placed fifth on 2.89% of first votes, was an utter embarrassment.  As his turn to speak came all the other candidates left the platform - a literal exhibition, I suppose, of the longstanding mainstream “no platform” policy.

That presented Barnbrook with a golden opportunity to out-maneouvre them with a few wisely chosen, generous words.  Why, then, deliver yourself of a graceless, incoherent rant?  Why confirm in the public mind the image of an evil party and an aggressive little man incapable of aspiring to the standards of public conduct expected from an elected representative?

Well, yes, in the run-up to the poll he and his fiancee had suffered the behaviour of the abominably yellow Daily Mail (not content to rely upon its more subtle campaigning).  But, again, the appropriate riposte has to be one of forebearance.  That’s how to win the sympathy of the public.

And the winning of public sympathy IS the issue.  It is plainly one thing for potential supporters to be very worried about the future of their town or city, or country.  It is another for them to vote for the British National Party.

If they are seriously interested in progress - and that is not necessarily the case in every instance - party strategists need to accept that the character issue is key.  The quality of those at the top of the party IS nationalism’s stopping point.  We know the media will be hostile.  We know the Establishment will place every obstruction it possibly can in the way of party progress.  These things are not going to change.  Indeed, as public disaffection with the MultiCult mounts, as it must, there will be more counter-balancing hostility and more obstructions.  The only possible take-off point for change, therefore, lies in the party’s handling of these challenges.

In the liberals’ den

Now, by way of an experiment, I took my own version of a high-moral nationalist position onto three colourful Guardian threads in the immediate run up to the May 1st poll.  The idea was to see how it could weather the inevitable emotional and intellectual attacks it would receive.

This was not the first time I have tried this.  So far, I’ve had my right to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy at the Guardian’s woefully mistitled on-line opinion section, Comment is Free, withdrawn four times, and I have never received an explanation.

I am not going to burden you with a blow-by-blow account of the three pre-poll endeavours.  Anyone interested can shortcut the very long threads on each article, and search for the handle I used, which was “Ordinary”. 

The first article was by an Indian bird who seems to have some interest in those tawdry anti-racist rock concerts of past and present.

The second article was an inviting anti-BNP screed by the egregiously Zionist Greville Janner.  I received some support from two Jewish gentlemen, which does not surprise me.  There have been fractures in British Jewry on the question of how to live with the natives dating back to the arrival of German and east European Jewish refugees in the 1930s.

The third article was by the talentless musician and, these days, wealthy country gentleman domiciled in the overwhelmingly white county of my birth, Billy Bragg.  Invitingly, it was about not leaving the “definition” of English “identity” to the “far right”.

The opposition on all three was relentlessly Godwinesque and offensive, but hardly overwhelming from an intellectual standpoint.  Strawmen and misrepresentations aplenty were attacked.  But I took no meaningful damage.  My central point - that the English have a moral right to and natural interest in continuity - was effectively gainsaid by no one.

From this I am encouraged to draw the conclusion that it is possible to outmaneouvre the Establishment on moral grounds.  Is that the message that the British public is waiting to hear from nationalists?  I believe it is.