A half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary was aired this evening with the title, “The Woman Who Never Was?”.  The article about it on the BBC’s website sets the scene:

Enoch Powell’s infamous ‘rivers of blood’ speech at a Conservative Party meeting in Birmingham in 1968 marked both the end of his chances of holding ministerial office and the birth of an enduring mystery.

In that speech he quoted a letter which referred to the plight of an unnamed woman pensioner in his Wolverhampton constituency whose life had, he claimed, been ruined by immigration.

This, according to Powell, was her story: “She worked hard and did well, paid off her mortgage and began to put something by for her old age. Then the immigrants moved in. With growing fear, she saw one house after another taken over.”

“She is becoming afraid to go out, windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letterbox. When she goes out to the shops she is followed by children, charming wide-grinning piccaninnies.”

‘Media circus’

The next day, Tory leader Edward Heath sacked Powell from his shadow cabinet as the debate over his speech and arguments over immigration reached boiling point.

The country demanded to know who this woman was but Powell repeatedly refused to say.

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I am very pleased to post the third of the essays PF has sent to me, venturing this time upon global and third world politics, and Iraq.  PF will now join the MR writers panel and post without further need of my engagement.  On behalf of everyone, then, I welcome a “potentially” valuable and unquestionably interesting and informative new member of the team.
GW

It certainly was an interesting facet of 20th century politics that both CIA and Communist intelligence agents were most interested in peddling/enforcing their universalist ideologies in oil-rich and resource-rich regions (Bolivia, Chile, Iran, Kosovo).

Its an open question whether the CIA and Russian intelligence were motivated by “Freedom” and “Socialism” respectively, or by the potential for large-scale resource acquisition.

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Some highlights for this week: LA ethnic gang violence spreads to formerly safe suburbs… Immigrant cooks spreading brain parasites to patrons of ethnic restaurants… 14 members of Carter’s advisory board resign over Carter’s book on Israel-Palestinian conflict… The most effective sabotage appears accidental… Passports… House construction by robot… Most women now live without husband… Condo market falling…  Another Neanderthal-Modern human hybrid found… Investment bank issues warning on Iran… Methane rocket engine test successful… “the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time”—Iran’s President… 500 gallons of fresh water per day—from thin air… Blair calls majority of Scots and English “crazy” for wanting devolution… Potential cancer cure—cheap—no patent… Harem forming behavior among women… Charles Murray on preventing the foolishness of the intellectual elite… Integrated function heat pump using 50% less energy than standard heat pumps… Jews incarcerated in Israeli jails rather than being raped by blacks and Hispanics in US jails…

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Here is the second of the two essays sent to us by PF: a thought-provoking extrapolation from bacterial population strategy into the modern method of majority population conquest by a minority - GW

Quorum Sensing is a kin-recognition mechanism which bacteria use to implement density-dependent strategies.  Each bacteria that utilizes Quorum Sensing produces a small molecule specific to its species called an Autoinducer.  Each bacteria cell both produces and is sensitive to this chemical.  If many cells of one species are living in a certain area, then there will be a large build-up of autoinducer molecules in that space; if only a few cells are living there, then there will be few autoinducer molecules.  The receptors of each cell are capable of measuring how much autoinducer is present in their environment - and this is how they determine the density of their own species’ cells.  When one bacterial species reaches a certain cell density, and hence its autoinducer reaches a certain concentration, the behavior of the bacterial population changes.

Perhaps the most well-studied examples are in the expression of virulence factors.  These are proteins that help the bacteria to manipulate and evade its host.  Expressing a virulence factor antagonizes the host immune system, and makes it more probable that the bacterial population will come under attack, since host immune systems tend to evolve recognition of virulence factors.  If the bacterial population expresses virulence factors when it is small, it is easily overwhelmed by the immune response.  But if the bacteria population waits until it has sufficient numbers, it can overwhelm the host by switching en masse to the new pathogenic form, with its much greater effect.

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Hardly unexpectedly, Bruno Gollnisch, deputy leader of the FN and leader of the new nationalist grouping in the European Parliament, has been found guilty of “disputing a crime against humanity”.  His judge in the Lyon court handed him a suspended jail sentence of 3 months and a fine of 55,000 euros for the offended “plaintiffs”, plus the cost for the judgment to be published in those newspapers that originally printed his remarks.

His historical disputatiousness occurred in Lyon over two years ago.  He had said:-

“Historians have the right to discuss the number of deaths and the way that they died.

What, of course, he should have said was:-

“Only the state has the right to stipulate the number of deaths and the way that they died.

He also said:-

Fifty years after the facts we can discuss the real number of deaths

But what he should have said was:-

Fifty years ... five hundred years ... five thousand years after the facts we shall feel our shame for the state-prescribed number of deaths.

He also said that the:-

existence of the gas chambers is for historians to discuss.

But what he should have said was that the:-

existence of the gas chambers is for the state to drill into us everyday, ceaselessly, until we are filled with such a sense of sin we can think of nothing but eternal recompense to our vibrant minorities, and especially towards our Jews.

For these oversights Gollnisch has been duly punished.  So have we.

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MR regulars will by now recognise the initials of commenter PF.  He, like us all, has followed his own unique path here, involving in his case a brush with the theatre of the absurd as he explains in this, his first post ...

GW

Anti-racism has a new star and spokesperson in the person of Antony Medley, a man who embodies in himself some of the noblest aspects of that so noble movement.

Antony’s entire world is anti-racism, a fact he first made clear to us all in his landmark video, Racism is Ignorance.  Here, Antony layed out his philosophical justification for an aggressive, even potentially violent, new kind of anti-racism: “I’m not racist, but I am racist against racists.”

Eventually, his video provoked such a strong response from both fans and detractors alike, he was positively compelled to produce another one.  Well, obviously he had to placate his expanding fanbase somehow and “correct” those sinners on the right.  In large part, his second video repeated his earlier work.  But at least it bore a more concise title: Racism Ignorance.

Unlike many anti-racists Antony didn’t simply block commentors who disagreed with him.  True to his messianic spirit he actually engaged them in open debate on his Video Comments sections.  This duly attracted determined proponents from both sides of the ideological fence, producing threads of 100+ entries - sufficient for the clearest understanding of the issues under discussion for anybody who wanted it.

Antony probably did not want it.

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On the video the low, rich tessitura lights up the inevitable appeal to unity, Kenyan coffee on a cold, dull morning.  The easily thrilled contemplate the realisation of a dream of four decades of another young Democrat god in the White House ... and a

first

second black president after Bill Clinton.  Obama the Handled, the Manufactured has entered the race for the nomination.

He will divide America like no other, which I presume to be a good.  Should the nationalist American, then, hope that Hillary so scares the cattle he actually wins the nomination?  Should the hope even be that he strides to victory on November 4th next year over a prostrate John McCain (or Rudi Giuliani)?

Don’t ask me.  I come from a country that hasn’t yet so lost its sense it will contemplate a half-African, half-Moslem unknown in Number 10.

This evening Dispatches, the best current affairs programme on British television, is airing an investigative report into the practise of Islam in Britain.  Should be worth watching.

The C4 website explains:-

UNDERCOVER MOSQUE

A Dispatches reporter attends mosques run by organisations whose public faces are presented as moderate and finds preachers condemning integration into British society, condemning democracy and praising the Taliban for killing British soldiers.

Prime Minister Tony Blair recently described tolerance as ‘what makes Britain Britain’ but in this extensive investigation Dispatches reveals how a message of hatred and segregation is being spread throughout the UK and examines how it is influenced by the religious establishment of Saudi Arabia.

Dispatches has investigated a number of mosques run by high profile national organisations that claim to be dedicated to moderation and dialogue with other faiths. But an undercover reporter joined worshippers to find a message of religious bigotry and extremism being preached.

He captures chilling sermons in which Saudi-trained preachers proclaim the supremacy of Islam, preach hatred for non-Muslims and for Muslims who do not follow their extreme beliefs - and predict a coming jihad. “An army of Muslims will arise,” announces one preacher. Another preacher said British Muslims must “dismantle” British democracy - they must “live like a state within a state” until they are “strong enough to take over.”

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