A brief science lesson. Once upon a time, a british economist named Malthus wrote a short book on a fundamental realization he had, and his concerns about it. The facts that laid before Malthus’s table were that population growth is exponential, whereas resource growth is finite and arithmetical at best. The inevitable result would always be poverty and famine, that there was no path to prosperity available to mankind, and that despite all of our technological innovations, in the end we’d be just as poorly off as our starving ancestors and the starving Chinese and the starving Indians and the starving Africans. Mathematics simply dictated it.

Another man, Charles Darwin, when he read this, realized that this was the case not just for mankind but all living things. All living things reproduced exponentially, while only being able to gather more resources arithmetically. This meant that in the natural world, life was constantly overshooting its carrying capacity, ie more babies were being born than could possibly be fed. Every generation a great die-off must occur, to reorient population to resource accumulation, he reasoned, and the factors that led to some organisms dying while others didn’t created the survival of the fittest. Perhaps one organism had better lungs and thus could run faster, perhaps an organism had better eyes and could spy out prey better than average, or perhaps an organism was better camouflaged than its peers and thus avoided the sharp eyes of predators. Survival traits one encounters in the natural world are impossible to miss, the logic that those who had more and better versions of these obviously effective measures must have outcompeted their rival stock is common sense, the fact that not all living things can survive due to exponential birth rates is a mathematical truth.

Gradually, as each generation is born, competes, and largely dies off, in competition with members of their own species and other species occupying the same biological niche, (perhaps using the same shelter, perhaps the same soil, perhaps the same sunlight, perhaps the same prey, etc) and those predating upon a certain niche, (eating them, infecting them, scavenging from them) certain survival traits begin to emerge as more and more common the longer the game is played, because even a slight advantage over time leads to a dramatic lead over all competition. Once virtually everyone has either died or inherited these winning traits, the competition begins all over again and just as ruthlessly as only some new advantage will help one genetic line emerge victorious over the others. This constant need to improve or die is the seemingly miraculous force that has created humans out of algae. In a name, it is evolution. Genetic change, competition, and the favoring of certain survival traits that keep turning out to be winners, automatically keeps life progressing towards certain ends. Ends that can be discerned if one looks at the history of life’s evolution across time. Ends that all living beings must embrace and adopt, or go extinct for the lack of them, due to the proven worth of those traits that evolution has selected for life over and over and over again.

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... in Italy:-

Migrants break out of Italian camp

Hundreds of asylum seekers and hopeful migrants have broken out of a holding centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa and marched to the town hall.

Bernardino De Rubeis, the island’s mayor, said that 700 out of about 1,300 people at the centre walked out on Saturday morning.  “It is a very tense situation,” he said.

Police said the group forced open the gates of the camp and marched peacefully to the town centre to protest against their detention.  They were joined by a few hundred locals who also want the inmates transferred to bigger camps elsewhere in Italy.

The Italian interior ministry said there had been “no escape of illegal immigrants” because it was a camp for assistance rather than expulsion, “so there is no obligation to stay there”.

Many were already returning to the camp, it said in a statement.

... and in Thailand:-

Boat people claim Thai mistreatment

Thai authorities are grappling with a scandal over alleged mistreatment by soldiers of hundreds of ethnic Rohingyas refugees from Myanmar.  Details are surfacing about the plight of Rohingya boat people who were apparently beaten by Thai soldiers before being towed out to sea.

The allegations, apparently supported by photographs and witness accounts, have dented Thailand’s tourist-friendly image. Some of the migrants managed to reach Indonesia and videos of them arriving on the shore show them to be in a shocking physical condition.  Others are in detention on the Indian islands of Andaman. Two of those held there have spoken of being abused by Thai soldiers.

THE PRIORITIES OF UK EXTRADITION POLICY

From the Telegraph:-

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Thanks to Bo for this video of Robert Reich and Charles Rangel at an Economic Recovery Plan meeting on 7th January.

Today the $825 billion economic stimulus package was marked up by the House Ways & Means Committee.  It includes money for infrastructure, health care and education projects.  But little to none of it will be coming your way if you are white or middle-class.

The Bishop and the gas man

Rumours that the Pope has signed the withdrawals of excommunication of four “Lefebvrist” bishops of the Society of St Pius X have made news in The Times and caused its religious correspondent to suffer a fit of the vapours.  The reason?  One of the four, Bishop Richard Williamson, is something of a stickler for the historical record of the Holocaust.  As a result of his outspokenness he faces, Gledhill says, ...

... possible prosecution for Holocaust denial in Germany after an interview with a reporter from Stockholm TV in which he claimed that six million Jews did not die in the Holocaust, merely a few thousand, and that the gas chambers did not exist.

... In his previous utterances which have caused repeated deep offence to the Jewish community as well as many Catholics and other Christians who have heeded the message of Christian repentance towards the Jewish community as spelled out in the documents of Vatican II and elsewhere, the Society has refused to distance itself from him.

... Now it looks as though Williamson might have gone too far, even for his traditionalist brethren, and that he might at last face some sort of disciplinary action from the society, most if not none of whose members do not share his views. This would then make it possible for the Pope to realise his dream of bringing the society back into the fold, without Williamson.

Here’s what she means by “gone too far”.

Incidentally, the Bishop has expressed other interesting opinions.

Wilders to be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred against Muslims

Geert Wilders, leader of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, which has nine parliamentary seats, has another big day coming up.  From Al-Jezeera:-

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Many people have said jews are genociding the white world, while fiendishly profiting from our loss themselves.  Jews will stand above it all, refuse to practice what they preach, and emerge unscathed from the racial chaos.  Is this supported by the data though?  Or are jews caught in the same ideological trap as they’ve sprung on others?  I thought a more thorough data crunch might reveal a different take on Jewish malfeasance.  Instead of the ‘double standards’ theory where Jews have one, secret standard for themselves and another, intentionally malicious standard for others, the data better fits a single suicidal standard they apply to themselves and others in the genuine belief it is somehow a noble, moral ideal.  This is not the first time religious enthusiasm has led to mass suicide.  Jim Jones, the comet of Hale-Bopp, and the Shakers, are other well-known examples of this phenomena.  If liberalism is simply a suicide cult, the destructive nature of Jews is revealed as a simple missionary fervor combined with an irrational idea.  The only unique part of this cult was how persuasive and influential jews are, thus making it the largest suicide cult in world history, with the most adherents ever assembled.

So which of the models makes more sense?  If Jews have one standard meant to undercut the population of whites, and another standard for themselves meant to further their ethnic interests, then we should see a growing Jewish population and a shrinking white population.  If Jews are suicidal fanatics with missionary zeal to drag others with them, we should see Jewish population falling at the highest rate and their roped-in lemmings falling alongside them, perhaps at a slower and less dramatic rate.

Assuming nothing revolutionary happens in the world and current trends carry on as normal, how will things look in 2050?

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I thought I might follow up the Herder post from 13th January with a quick intro to another of the founding figures of German Idealism and of German nationalism, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814).  Below the fold I will reproduce one of his famous series of Addresses to the German Nation.

Fichte was an original thinker and offered important contributions to the theory of consciousness and to freedom of thought and speech.  But it was only in his later years that his theory of an autarkic (or self-sufficient) government appeared, and he began to flesh out a notion of state, individual and fatherland that earned him his place in the nationalist pantheon.

He was no Judeophile, describing Jews as a “state within a state” that could “undermine” the German nation. He suggested the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

In 1807-8 he took to circularising his Reden an die deutsche Nation, or Addresses to the German Nation, from the then French-occupied Berlin.  Here, to give you a pretty strong flavour of early German Idealist thought and German patriotism, is one from 1807:-

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By Bo Sears

A conference with the title “Preserving Western Civilisation” takes place in Baltimore on February 6 to February 8.  It’s purpose is advertised on its website as follows:-

We believe that America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and European identity must be defended. Today, our glorious Western civilization is under assault from many directions. Three such threats will be discussed at this conference.

First, the massive influx to the United States and Europe of Third-World immigrants who do not share our fundamental political and cultural values.

Second, the threat from Islam, a militant ideology that is hostile to our society and, in principle, committed to destroying it.

Third, because of the persistent disappointing performance of blacks (which many whites mistakenly blame on themselves) many whites have guilt feelings that undermine Western morale and deter us from dealing sensibly with the other threats.

Are all the speakers sincere?

The lead speaker is Lawrence Auster. At other times and in other contexts, he has quite a different interpretation of Western civilization. Consider his remarks in FrontPageMagazine on June 22, 2004F. His subject was Jewish organizational opposition to immigration reduction.  He liberally sprinkled this piece with the word “gentile” to make clear what he thinks of Euro-Americans (plus one “goyim” if we were in any doubt). As weird as these remarks sound, they are perfectly typical Austerisms.

To seek to overturn entire societies [by Jewish organizations] in order to get rid of one’s own ethnic identity may seem a rather drastic approach to solving the Jewish problem, yet it reflects, in a uniquely exacerbated and destructive form, Jews’ recurrent pattern of forming some global ideology for reasons relating to their particular situation as Jews. (Let us note that this tendency, while it can take negative forms as in the current example, is natural for a people whose tribal history and beliefs became the basis for all of Western civilization.)

To label our heritage “Judeo-Christian” ...

“a term used to describe the body of concepts and values which are thought to be held in common by Judaism and Christianity”

... is already begging a very Jewish question.  But to assert that the entire cultural edifice of Western Civilisation is based on “the tribal history and beliefs” of Jews, and by implication Greece and Rome and the Nordic traditions, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment amount to nothing, is a remarkably narrow and exclusive view. But at least now we know what Auster thinks about our civilization, and about us and why we are nothing more than “gentiles”.

Such a view, of course, is at considerable odds with the matters to be discussed at the Baltimore conference in February.  It doesn’t sound as though he believes in anything remotely like a “European identity.”

Perhaps Auster will find time to discuss it with the second speaker listed for the conference, Peter Brimelow.  He has revealed over the past year that his immigration reduction efforts spring from a neocon philosophy, demonstrated by his frequent publishing at VDare of racist labels like the Spanish-language epithets “gringo” and “anglo”, as well as the artificial “WASP”.  The latter, by the way, is defined by Wikipedia as “a sociological and cultural pejorative ethnonym that originated in the United States”.

Maybe the comedian Julia Gorin or the junior BNP politician Pat Richardson, both also speakers at the conference, will be able to offer a pejorative-free way out of the impasse.  Or maybe not.  European identity is a subject best left to those of European descent.

At least Prof Phillipe Rushton is on hand to illuminate his audience about the “persistent disappointing performance of blacks”.  Personally, I’m not too disappointed, but maybe that’s just me.  To judge from the “Statement of Purpose” reproduced above, the meat of the discussion won’t be about black performance at all.  It will be about the “guilt feelings” that grip “many whites” and which apparently “undermine Western morale”.

Naming us, then, isn’t enough.  Our foolish gentile minds and our self-destructive gentile ways must stand exposed to the gimlet gaze of the conference organisers.  And why, precisely?  So that the “folly of the gentile ... no, make that the gringo” can explain the failure of our “Judeo-Christian heritage” ... and the “the massive influx of immigrants” ... and the “threat of Islam”.  No other explanation in sight.

And just who are these gimlet-eyed conference organisers?  Well, the chairman of the organizing committee is ... Michael Hart.

It will be interesting to see how the dominant media culture reports this conference, and whose voice they say was spoken during it.  Not a voice with a “European identity”, that’s for sure ... not the voice of the diverse white American peoples.

I can’t help but wonder what the “gentiles” slated to speak there actually understand about the conference’s real purpose ... Brimelow, Phil Rushton, Brenda Walker are intelligent people.  Sadly, they are also too trusting.

Bo Sears is a senior activist at ResistingDefamation.org.

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