The latest example of intercultural dialogue, the knife murder of 18 year-old Robert Knox in Sidcup, has generated unusual behaviour at Rupert Murdoch’s News International.

Time was (like yesterday) when we were never told the race of a black perp until the jury had bought in the verdict.  We, of course, came to understand that journalists are poor, squeamish creatures who say “youth” and “teen” when they mean black.  We developed exquisitely attuned antennae for the rubric of professional denial and obfuscation.  The slightest reluctance to come clean about some random act of inner city savagery was sniffed out and added to the probabilities that, once again, the perpetrator was ... black, of course.

But today, like a throw-back to the 1970s, Murdoch’s Sunday papers gave out the race of Robert Knox’s murderer as reported by witnesses and friends of the deceased.  Just like that.

From the The Times:-

Lee Bentley, manager of the Metro bar, said the attack appeared to have been triggered by a row over the alleged theft of a mobile phone.

“Nine days ago, a guy came to the bar and caused trouble,” said Bentley. “He accused [Knox’s friend] Dean Saunders of stealing his phone and hit him in the face. We cleaned up Dean and barred the man.”

But the man, who is black and in his twenties, returned on Friday night armed with two knives and tried entering the bar, where Knox was a regular drinker.

What happened next is unclear, but Jade Nicholson, an assistant bar manager, said: “I saw Rob go outside and shout, ‘You pulled a knife on my brother, someone call the police’.”

Tom Hopkins, 18, who was drinking at the bar, said: “Rob had been trying to stop the trouble, it wasn’t his fault.

“All I remember was seeing Rob get stabbed in the chest. I ran over and me and my mate Tarik both tackled the black man. I jumped on top of him and he said, ‘I’ve got a knife, I’ve got a knife’. As I tried to grab the knife I didn’t realise he had another one in his other hand and he cut me in the back of the head.

Well, I doubt whether young Tom Hopkins really told Murdoch’s hack that he “tackled the black man”.  Surely the word “cunt” or “bastard” must have slipped in there somewhere.  Boys being boys.  But, then, perhaps the sensibilities of Times readers are too refined for an encounter over the breakfast table with a “c—-” or “b———d”.

Anyway, from the News of the World, where no one has to worry about such things:-

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By Bo Sears

One of the great questions confronting the diverse white American peoples as the population of the United States of America changes, requiring all the various peoples to re-tribalize or maintain tribal bonds as may be, is how to establish a governing body much like La Raza, the American Jewish Congress, the NAACP, and the various Indian tribal nations.

We used to be non-hyphenated Americans, now we are the hate-crimes-default demographic, harassed and assaulted by more organized groupings, and unprotected by our government which kills our youth in foreign wars, steals our wages and profits, destroys our symbols and holidays, and unendingly defames us and discriminates against us.

A solution - The Articles of Confederation

One solution for white American governance would be to revive the Articles of Confederation (“Articles”) as our framework for governance.  A little known fact is that the Congress of the Confederation established by the Articles never adjourned sine die (its last meeting with a full quorum was October 10, 1778).  It never officially declared an end to its own existence.

A second little known fact is that the second and current badly-abused Constitution failed to declare the Articles null and void.  So the Articles, approved by each of the original 13 states, continue to exist in a shadowy way, waiting for the sons and daughters of the founders to revivify their promises and protections.

Advantages

The advantages to using the Articles are numerous.  They reflect our European-American natural spirit and ancestry, while rejecting the spirit of one man rule (monarchy).  They are easy to read (only five pages long).  There were ten national presidents under the Articles.  They contain no embarrassing terms even for those whose psychopathology revolves around the mental illness known as “presentism” which means every word can be twisted by comparison to current values simply to disrespect the founders.  There would be no need to meet to draft a fundamental governing body for the diverse white American peoples.  Drafting such a fundamental document could take years - adopting the Articles would take one season, although adopting policies and procedures would be an unending follow-up task.

The Articles were very successful, contrary to the impression given by contemporary spiteful and envious academia:

# The Articles provided the framework for waging war against the most powerful monarchy of its time.

# They handled the ending of the rebellion against the British kingdom, the post-rebellion peace negotiations, and important international relations with the Russian empire and the French kingdom.

# They drafted and adopted the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1887.

All in all a commendable record.

A side note - flaws With current Constitution

There were numerous flaws in the adoption of the new and current Constitution (secret meetings, ultra vires actions, and only nine states required to adopt in violation of Clause 13 of the Articles’ amendment process), and we all see how its purposes and meanings have been twisted out of recognition.  Contemporary centralized government fans disrespect the Articles, but only because they would not be able to use them for war-making and exorbitant taxing purposes.

Bo Sears is a member of that brotherly band Resisting Defamation.

Do you remember what it was like as a sleepyhead when you came into contact with free thinking for the first time?  Was it a taste of a new freedom - what “PF”, in describing an encounter with life’s most forbidden truth, once poeticised as “the delicious pleasures of racism”?  Or was it perhaps more constrained and personal ... more a fascination with some question particular to you and your life experience?

What made you push on past the barriers of artificial disapprobation?  What made you feel you might belong in this bracing new intellectual environment, instead of being mechanically repelled by it?

These are important questions for every site-owner, every forum poster, every blogger and commenter like us because, whatever our specialism, we are all in the business of outreach, all trying to communicate our ideas and create some beneficial response.  It’s an uneven battle, of course.  We are fighting against a zeitgeist of self-destruction that stretches wall-to-wall across the Western world, and is reinforced constantly through every available mainstream medium (not that all of it works).

Getting our message out, whether it’s one of political analysis, immigration, race-realism, the JQ, the global elite, or even what might pompously be called the meta-theory that sometimes appears here, is a labour of love.  We want to succeed.  We want to ... have to touch the minds of our sleeping compatriots.

So presentation plainly matters.

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The blog has experienced a serious technical problem over the last few days, which prevented new postings.  Thankfully, James resolved it, and I’ve been pitched back into the world of political news and thought.  And what I have been trying to get a handle on has been that brief and very strange, conflicted marriage of radical leftist idealism, political establishments generally, American national interest and corporate greed which is, or was, the movement for globalisation.

I was thrust into this line of country by a news snippet two days ago about the resignation of Brazil’s political heroine and Environment Minister, Marina Silva.

“Environmental campaigners say her resignation is a major setback for the rainforest in Brazil.

“Brazil is losing the only voice in the government that spoke out for the environment,” said Sergio Leitao, director of public policy for Greenpeace in Brazil.

“The minister is leaving because the pressure on her for taking the measures she took against deforestation has become unbearable,” he added.

Economic development

Marina Silva has blamed the increasing deforestation of the Amazon on Brazilian cattle ranchers and farmers.

She had unsuccessfully opposed several government infrastructure projects in the Amazon rainforest, including two big hydroelectric dams on the River Madeira, and a major new road.

According to Brazilian media reports, she was also believed to be dismayed at the recent appointment of another minister to act as a coordinator for the government’s newly announced strategy for the Amazon.

The government’s decision to authorise genetically modified grains, and the construction of a new nuclear power plant, also went against the minister’s environmental concerns.

Correspondents say Ms Silva’s resignation will reinforce a perception that President Lula is more concerned with economic development than conservation.

What really did for her was the strongly rising cost of commodities on world markets.  Money, in other words ... and weak politicians.  These include the one-time champion of workers rights and two-times elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.  But this is the sad, too too predictable story of globalisation everywhere.

Now, let’s rewind eighteen years and see how it came to this.  It means going back to the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Anyone past his twenties will likely remember watching the whole process of revolution in the east unfold.  It was an extraordinary and breathless passage of time, the like of which we simply did not believe we would witness in our lifetimes.  Those involved, of course, knew that communism as ideology was an empty shell.  Homo sovieticus had nothing to field against the national soul of the western satellites.  But what was not known was how weak the state structure itself was.

But, also, what I never dreamt as I watched the images on the television screen was how little the hard-left in the West, which had supported the workers’ paradise throughout, was inclined to walk into history with Homo sovieticus.  Instead, it stampeded into new political causes.

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The time may have come to to cede some US territory, say Long Island, to Israel in exchange for some concessions.  When the Dutch lost control of New Amsterdam to the British, it became New York.  It seems that at least some segment of New York, having been de facto lost to the Jews by the “White Anglo-Saxon Protestants” should be renamed “New Jerusalem” and ceded to Israel with appropriate conditions.  Long Island is a good choice since it can be ethnically cleansed for Jewish occupation more easily than other parts of New York City and the surrounding areas. 

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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.

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 is most irreverent.
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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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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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